About me

Research interests: sociolinguistics (Labovian), sociophonetics, language variation, Nordic languages

Ph.D. (2019): Queen Mary, University of London

M.A. (2015): Stockholm University

B.A. (2004): The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Publications

Young, N. (2018). Talrytmens sociala betydelse i det senmoderna Stockholm – Vokaldurationskontrast som ett indexikalt drag [The social meaning of rhythm in late-modern Stockholm – Vowel durational contrast as an indexical feature], Nordand 13(1), 41–63. | link

Young, N. (2018). ‘Copycats, ja dom shouf’ - Using hip hop to compare lexical replications in Danish and Swedish multiethnolects, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 24(2), 174–184. | link

Young, N. (2018). Rhythm in Stockholm’s two working-class varieties: Separate models predict intervocalic durational contrast, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, 448–452. | link