Matt(y) Stuck (NYU, CUNY Graduate Center) began lecturing in the Department of Linguistics at Princeton in Spring 2024.
He concentrates on language variation and change: social attitudes towards variation, language contact, and heritage language (HL) phonetics/phonology. He examines how sociolinguistic factors of bilingualism contribute to (re)organization of the HL sound system. He is especially interested in the emergence and spread of sound patterns that constitute a ‘heritage accent’ and social attitudes attached to such innovations.
He is a lecturer in the Linguistics Program at Brooklyn College (2019-) as well, where he teaches phonology, sociolinguistics, the science of human language, and educational linguistics courses. Prior to Brooklyn, he taught linguistics at Lehman College, City College of New York, and NYU. A native of Portland, OR, Matty is also particularly excited by the growing literature on the phonology of Pacific Northwest English.
