Anita Szakay
Position: PhD Candidate
Email: szakay AT interchange DOT ubc DOT ca

Mailing Address:
UBC Department of Linguistics
2613 West Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
V6T 1Z4

['ɑ.ni.tɑ 'sɑ.kɑ.ji]

Education

• PhD in Linguistics
  University of British Columbia, expected 2012
  Dissertation: The Effect of Dialect on Bilingual Language Processing
  and Representation
  Committee: Molly Babel (chair), Bryan Gick, Jeanette King

• MA (Distinction) in Linguistics
  University of Canterbury, 2007
  Thesis: Identifying Māori English and Pākehā English from suprasegmental cues:
  A study based on speech resynthesis
  Supervisor: Professor Jen Hay

• BA (First Class Hons) in Linguistics
  University of Canterbury, 2005

• BA in Linguistics and Māori Language
  University of Canterbury, 2004

Publications

Book

• Szakay, Anita (2008) Ethnic Dialect Identification in New Zealand: The Role of Prosodic Cues. VDM Verlag, Germany.

Edited Volumes

• Rogers, Beth & Anita Szakay (eds.) (2010) Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 29. September 2010.

• Szakay, Anita, Connor Mayer, Beth Rogers, Bryan Gick & Joel Dunham (eds.) (2009) Interlocution: Linguistic structure and human interaction. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 24. July 2009.

Journal Articles

• Torgersen, Eivind & Anita Szakay (in press) An investigation of rhythm in London English. Lingua - Special Issue on Experimental Approaches to Sociophonetic Studies of English: Selected papers from ExAPP2010.

• Szakay, Anita (under review) The role of voice quality in New Zealand English ethnolect identification.

Proceedings

• Szakay, Anita, Molly Babel & Jeanette King (forthcoming 2012) Sociophonetic markers facilitate translation priming: Maori English GOAT - a different kind of animal. In H. Prichard (ed.), UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 18.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 40.

• Szakay, Anita (in press) The relative importance of rhythm and intonation for the perception of New Zealand English dialects. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society

• Torgersen, Eivind & Anita Szakay (2011) A study of rhythm in London: Is syllable-timing a feature of Multicultural London English? In M. Tamminga (ed.) UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 17.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 39, pp. 165-174.

• Szakay, Anita (2008) Social networks and the perceptual relevance of rhythm in Maori English: A New Zealand case study. In K. Gorman (ed.) UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 14.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 36, pp. 148-156.

• Szakay, Anita (2008) The Effect of Speech Rate on the Rhythm of English Dialects. In S. Moran, D. S. Tanner and M. Scanlon (eds.) UW Working Papers in Linguistics 27: Proceedings of the 24th Northwest Linguistics Conference, pp. 83-87.

• Szakay, Anita (2008) Mismatch between the production and perception of F0 in New Zealand English ethnolects. Canadian Acoustics 36(3):152-3.

• Szakay, Anita (2006) Rhythm and pitch as markers of ethnicity in New Zealand English. In P. Warren & C. Watson (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology, pp. 421-426, University of Auckland, New Zealand, December 6-8, 2006.

Compilation

• Szakay, Anita, Michael Rießler, Ida Toivonen, Diane Nelson, Zita McRobbie-Utasi and Nina Widjaja (2007) Saami linguistics bibliography. In Toivonen, Ida and Diane Nelson (eds.), Saami Linguistics, pp. 259-303. John Benjamins.

Presentations

• Szakay, Anita (2012) On the elusive L2-L1 translation priming: The effect of dialect exposure. Paper presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Portland, Oregon, January 2012.

• Szakay, Anita & Jeanette King (2011) Te Reo Maori and its socio-indexical links to Maori English and Pakeha English. Paper presented at the 19th Biennial Conference of the Linguistics Society of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand, November 2011.

• Szakay, Anita & Molly Babel & Jeanette King (2011) Sociophonetic markers facilitate translation priming: Maori English GOAT - a different kind of animal. Paper presented at NWAV 40. Washington, DC, October 2011. (Best Student Paper Award)

• Eivind Torgersen & Anita Szakay (2011) What is behind syllable-timing in Multicultural London English? Paper presented at NWAV 40. Washington, DC, October 2011.

• Szakay, Anita (2011) A priming method for investigating interdialectal influences on bilingual lexical processing. Paper presented at Methods in Dialectology 14. London, Ontario, Canada, August 2011.

• Szakay, Anita (2011) How do bilinguals process non-standard dialect forms? Poster presented at the Summer School on Neuro- and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Language Processing (UMSL2011). Braga, Portugal, July 2011.

• Szakay, Anita (2011) Cross-Language Socio-Indexicality. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Summer School of Sociolinguistics (SSS III). Glasgow, Scotland, July 2011.

• Szakay, Anita & Molly Babel (2011) The Processing of Cross-Dialectal Variants by Bilingual Listeners. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB8). Oslo, Norway, June 2011.

• Szakay, Anita (2011) Exploring the perceptual and conceptual relationship between L1 ethnolectal variants and L2. Paper presented at the New Zealand Institute of Language Brain & Behaviour. Christchurch, New Zealand, June 2011.

• Szakay, Anita (2011) The Effect of Dialect on Bilingual Language Processing. Paper presented at the 38th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC 2011). Auckland, New Zealand, April 2011.

• Torgersen, Eivind & Anita Szakay (2010) An investigation of rhythm in London English. Paper presented at the Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation: ExAPP2010. Groningen, Netherlands, November 2010.

• Torgersen, Eivind & Anita Szakay (2010) A study of rhythm in London: Is syllable-timing a feature of Multicultural London English? Paper presented at NWAV 39. San Antonio, Texas, November 2010.

• Szakay, Anita (2010) From Acoustics to Perception: Phonation Types and Ethnicity in Aotearoa. Paper presented at the New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behaviour. Christchurch, New Zealand, October 2010.

• Szakay, Anita & Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (2010) A Probabilistic Approach to Hungarian Paradigm Gaps. Poster presented at the 14th International Morphology Meeting. Budapest, Hungary, May 2010.

• Dollinger, Stefan & Anita Szakay (2009) Yod-dropping and the low-back vowel merger in Vancouver: evidence from three survey methods. Paper presented at NWAV 38. Ottawa, Canada, October 2009.

• Szakay, Anita (2009) Prosodic Variation and Attitudes towards Minority Groups. Paper presented at the Production, Perception, Attitude Workshop. Leuven, Belgium, April 2009.

• Szakay, Anita (2008) Ethnic Variation in Voice Quality in New Zealand English. Paper presented at NWAV 37. Houston, Texas, November 2008.

• Maclagan, Margaret & Jeanette King & Anita Szakay (2008) Maori English - Perceptual Features. Paper presented at the 11th New Zealand Language and Society Conference. Dunedin, New Zealand, November 2008.

• Szakay, Anita (2008) Mismatch between the production and perception of F0 in New Zealand English ethnolects. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association: Acoustics Week in Canada. Vancouver, Canada, October 2008.

• Szakay, Anita (2008) Suprasegmentals and Ethnic Stereotypes in New Zealand. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology 11. Wellington, New Zealand, June 2008.

• Rogers, Elizabeth & Anita Szakay (2008) Bimodal Perception of Secondary Articulations in Shona. Poster presented at the Congress of the Canadian Linguistics Association. Vancouver, Canada, May 2008.

• Szakay, Anita (2008) The Effect of Speech Rate on the Rhythm of English Dialects. Paper presented at the 24th Northwest Linguistic Conference. Seattle, Washington, May 2008.

• Szakay, Anita & Calisto Mudzingwa (2008) Vowel Reduction, Penultimate Lengthening and the Prosodic Rhythm of Shona. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Athens, Georgia, April 2008.

• Szakay, Anita (2008) The Relative Importance of Rhythm and Intonation for the Perception of New Zealand English Dialects. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, California, February 2008.

• Szakay, Anita (2007) Social Networks and the Perceptual Relevance of Rhythm in Maori English: A New Zealand Case Study. Paper presented at NWAV 36. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2007.

• Szakay, Anita (2007) Production and Perception of Suprasegmentals by Maori and Pakeha New Zealanders. Paper presented at the University of Canterbury Linguistics Research Seminar Series. Christchurch, New Zealand, May 2007.

• Szakay, Anita (2006) Rhythm and pitch as markers of ethnicity in New Zealand English. Paper presented at the 11th Australasian Speech Science and Technology Conference. Auckland, New Zealand, December 2006.

• Szakay, Anita (2006) Identifying Maori English from suprasegmental cues. Paper presented at the 10th New Zealand Language and Society Conference. Christchurch, New Zealand, August 2006.

• Szakay, Anita (2006) Dialect identification using low-pass filtering. Paper presented at the 3rd International Postgraduate Linguistics Conference at Victoria University of Wellington. Wellington, New Zealand, July 2006.