Hello! I am a doctoral candidate in the Linguistics Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. My current research focus is in sociolinguistics, the relation between linguistic variation and change and social structure, particularly  between  language and identities in speakers from the New York City Metro area.  I have also worked in the areas of  laboratory phonology, phonetics with a focus on the prosody of spoken language (its linguistic structure and how it is represented in the minds of language users), and Tagalog (an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines). 

I currently teach in the  English Department at Hunter College, CUNY.  Previously, I taught linguistics and English as a Second Language in the Education & Language Acquisition Department at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, and in the First Year Writing Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. 

Please follow the links above to learn more about my research, teaching, and personal interests. 

Contact information: dintlekofer@gradcenter.cuny.edu