Hello!

I am a doctoral candidate in the Linguistics Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. My research is in sociolinguistics, focusing on language variation and social identity among speakers from the New York City metro area. My dissertation examines how NYC born and raised social media influencers address their audiences, looking at second-person plural forms (y’all, you guys) and other terms of address through both quantitative and discourse-analytic methods.

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 Tagalog, an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines.

I currently teach first year writing and linguistics at Hunter College, CUNY.  

Contact information: dintlekofer@gradcenter.cuny.edu