Hello! I am a doctoral candidate in the Linguistics Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. My current research focus is sociolinguistics, particularly the relation between language variation and social identity among speakers from the New York City metro area. My dissertation examines second-person plural variation (y’all, you guys) among NYC born and raised social media influencers.

I have also worked in laboratory phonology and phonetics, with a focus on the prosody of spoken language and its representation in the minds of language users, and in the documentation of Tagalog, an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines.

I currently teach first year writing and linguistics in the English Department at Hunter College, CUNY.  Please follow the links above to learn more about my research, teaching, and personal interests. 

Contact information: dintlekofer@gradcenter.cuny.edu