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| 12:00 pm-6:00 pm | Registration – 5th Quarter Room, Union South | |||
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| 1:00-3:00 | Progress in regression: Statistical and practical improvements to Rbrul Daniel Ezra Johnson |
Discourse analysis for variationists Scott Kiesling |
Sociolinguistics and forensic speech science: Knowledge- and data-sharing Vincent Hughes, Jessica Wormald, Erica Gold, Tyler Kendall, Yvan Rose & Natalie Schilling |
Texts as data sources for historical sociolinguistics Joshua Bousquette, Rob Howell & Mark Richard Lauersdorf |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break | |||
| 3:15-5:15 | Guidelines for statistical reporting of multivariate analysis William Labov, Robin Dodsworth, Josef Fruehwald, John Paolillo, James Stanford, Sali Tagliamonte & Rena Torres Cacoullos |
Progressing from dialect awareness to critical language awareness and pedagogy: Equipping teachers to interrogating language, dialects, and power Jeffrey Reaser, Mary Hudgens Henders & Amanda J. Godley |
The sociolinguistics of bad data Raymond Hickey, Valerie Fridland, Matthew J. Gordon, Tyler Kendall, Samantha Litty, Natalie Schilling, Christopher Strelluf & Erik Thomas |
Complex systems and chain shifts: How big data affects our analyses Michael L. Olsen, Allison Burkette & William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. |
| 5:15-5:30 | Break | |||
| 5:30-5:45 | Welcome, Varsity Hall I+II Anja Wanner, Chair, University Committee Collin Ludwig, Co-President, Wunk Sheek (Native American Student Organization) |
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| 5:45-6:45 | Plenary I, Varsity Hall I+II | |||
| Monica Macaulay, University of Wisconsin-Madison Whence and whither Menominee? Tracing 125 years of variation and change Introduced by Alexandra D’Arcy |
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| 6:45-8:45 | Reception, Varsity Hall I+II | |||
| 7:00 am-6:00 pm | 5th Quarter Room, Registration, Breaks, Book Exhibits Union South |
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| 7:00-8:30 | Panel: Grant Writing for Early Career Researchers Location: Industry Participants: Alexandra D’Arcy, Robin Dodsworth and Monica Macaulay Moderator: Eric Raimy Sponsored by Duke University Press. Breakfast provided. |
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| Chair: Tom Purnell | Chair: Sarah Benor | Chair: Patricia Cukor-Avila | Chair: Robert Bayley | |
| 8:30-8:55 | 212. Production planning effects in Sandhi: A corpus study using automated classification. Jeffrey Lamontagne & Francisco Torreira |
152. The relationship between iconicity as motor-sensory analogy and social meaning: Evidence from creaky voice. Emily Lake |
134. English variation in the Dutch Caribbean: Evidence of Dutch substrate in Saban English? Caroline Myrick & Lars Naborn |
137. Cross-community variation in onset /l/ among California Latinx speakers. Robert Podesva, Frankie Conover, Alma Flores-Perez, Chantal Gratton, Aurora Kane, Daisy Leigh, Julia Mendelsohn, Carra Rentie & Anna-Marie Sprenger |
| 8:55-9:20 | 124. Variation in filled pauses across speaking styles and boroughs within West Yorkshire: Implications for forensic speaker comparisons. Erica Gold, Sula Ross & Kate Earnshaw |
218. LOT-raising and toughness in a California high school. Teresa Pratt |
194. ‘I feel like’ and ‘it feels like’: Two paths to the emergence of epistemic markers. Marisa Brook |
232. Experimental evaluations of Chicano English sh~ch variation in El Barrio, Texas. Isla Flores-Bayer |
| 9:20-9:45 | 67. Variation in Hasidic Yiddish syntax: A corpus study of language change on the internet. Isaac L. Bleaman |
56. Attentional load and style control. Devyani Sharma & Kathleen McCarthy |
94. Habitual behaviour: Teasing apart the variable contexts of the English past habitual. Derek Denis, Alexandra D’Arcy & Erika Larson |
122. Categoricity and graduality: Progress in the analysis of /ʧ/ in Spanish. Manuel Díaz-Campos & Eliot Raynor |
| 9:45-10:10 | 226. A diachronic BNC – construction of balanced sociolinguistic sub-corpora & case study. Susan Reichelt |
86. Personality mediates adaptation to double modal constructions. Julie Boland, Guadalupe de Los Santos & Robin Queen |
130. Social capital far from the capital: Verbal –s in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Gerard Van Herk & Becky Childs |
29. Ethnic identity construction: The interlocutor effect on the TOOTH vowel in Chinese American English. Mingzhe Zheng |
| 10:10-10:30 | Break | |||
| Chair: Sali Tagliamonte | Chair: Gerard Van Herk | Chair: David Bowie | Chair: Manuel Díaz-Campos | |
| American Dialect Society Session | ||||
| 10:30-10:55 | 143. Rootedness and the spectral dynamics of /aɪ/ monophthongization. Paul E. Reed |
200. Where sociolinguistics and speech science meet: The physiological and acoustic consequences of underbite in a multilectal speaker of African-American English. Alicia Wassink |
39. Mandarin dialect contact and identity construction: The social motivation and meanings in the variation of Taiwan Mandarin (r) in an immigrant setting. Yu-Ning Lai |
197. The persistence of dialectal differences in U.S. Spanish: /s/ weakening in Boston and NYC. Daniel Erker & Madeline Reffel |
| 10:55-11:20 | 128. Progressive outliers in listener perception of sound change. Sayako Uehara & Suzanne Evans Wagner |
28. Dialect contact and linguistic accommodation: Standard Seoul Korean speakers in Gyeongsang Province. Yoojin Kang |
149. Would You Like Fry With That?: Exploring Perceptual Variation of Vocal Fry Rae Vanille |
246. Explaining cross-generational differences in subject placement and overt pronoun rates in New York City Spanish using mixed-effect models Carolina Barrera Tobón, Rocío Raña Risso & Christen Madsen |
| 11:20-11:45 | 71. Boston dialect features in the Black/African American community. Charlene Browne & James Stanford |
89. Tracking phonetic accommodation: An analysis of short-term speech adjustments during interactions between native and nonnative speakers. Cecily Corbett |
238. Aesthetic judgments of self and other: Dialect attitudes in the Spanish of Argentina. Jennifer Lang-Rigal |
108. Examining the relegation of language contact in language change: The “naturalness” of contact-induced variation in Catalonian Spanish. Justin Davidson |
| 11:45-12:10 | 224. Gender assignment to English noun insertions in New York Dominican Spanish. Tara Feeney, Lotfi Sayahi & Cecily Corbett |
165. Statistical tracking and generalization: Dual strategies in bidialectal acquisition. Alexandra Pfiffner |
38. “They just had such a sweet way of speaking”: Affective stance, identity, and prosodic style in Kodiak Alutiiq. Julia Fine |
172. How Black does Obama sound now? Testing listener judgments of intonation in incrementally manipulated speech. Nicole Holliday & Dan Villarreal |
| 12:00-2:00 | Bowling with Editors! Come bowl with journal editors in the bowling lanes of Union South Bowling Alley | |||
| 12:10-1:30 | Lunch | |||
| 1:30-2:50 | Poster Session I, Varsity Hall I+II | |||
| 87. The study of optional realization of the French negative particle (ne) on Twitter: Is sociolinguistics compatible with the big data? Jacobo Levy Abitbol, Jean-Pierre Chevrot, Marton Karsai, Jean-Philippe Magué, Yannick Léo, Aurélie Nardy & Eric Fleury |
136. Hoosier Talk – Acoustic work in Western Indiana. Jon Bakos & Isabelle Goevert |
93. Personas, personalities, and stereotypes of lesbian speech. Auburn Barron-Lutzross |
6. Degrees of ethnolinguistic infusion: Variation in Hebrew loanword use at American Jewish summer camps. Sarah Bunin Benor |
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| 66. Acquisition of L3 Spanish vowels by heritage speakers of Polish and Ukrainian. Margaryta Bondarenko |
48. “Toto, I’ve a feeli[ŋ] we’re no[ɾ] in Kansas anymore”: Phonological variation in real and imaginary worlds. David Bowie & Hriana Bowie |
95. Mapping perceptions of language variation in Wisconsin: A view from Marathon County, WI. Sarah Braun |
85. Canadian raising in the speech of American-born NHL players. Andrew Bray |
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| 40. Madame le/la ministre: Variation and change in gendered terms of address in the French House of Representatives. Heather Burnett & Olivier Bonami |
120. Change takes time, ¿cachái? Testing the role of frequency as a driver of change in Chilean Spanish. Matthew Callaghan |
42. Probing non-conscious perceptions of Spanish and English in Miami: The implicit association test in sociolinguistic context. Salvatore Callesano & Phillip M. Carter |
121. Youz guyz gotta addz the Z’z at the endz’a yaz woidz, seez!: Metapragmatic commentary on English in New York City. Cecelia Cutler |
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| 26. #YouAreWhatYouTweet: Identity & vowel devoicing in French-language tweets. Amanda Dalola |
41. “I’m Catholic and she’s public”: Education and the Northern Cities Shift in St. Louis. Daniel Duncan |
33. The impact of diversity on language regard. Katharina von Elbwart & Jennifer Cramer |
214. Northern Cities in the country: TRAP, LOT, and country identity in Northwestern Ohio. Martha Austen, Shontael Elward, Zack Jones & Kathryn Campbell-Kibler |
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| 44. Saks vs. Macys: (r-1) marches on in New York City department stores. Gregory R. Guy |
131. The quotative system in Saipanese English: Contrasting profiles of be like and zero. Dominique B. Hess |
102. The California vowel shift in Santa Barbara. Arianna Janoff |
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| 91. “In my mind I was like”: Speaker strategies for differentiating thought and speech in the Age of Quotative be like. Taylor Jones & Christopher Hall |
32. Variation in the use of ça/c’ and il(s)/elle(s) in Parisian French. Kelly Kasper-Cushman |
79. Performing class, performing Pittsburghese: Falling question intonation in Pittsburghese videos. Scott F. Kiesling |
61. Is (T, D) deletion a single, unified process? New insights from Toronto English. Lex Konnelly, Katharina Pabst, Melanie Röthlisberger & Sali Tagliamonte |
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| 138. The effect of lifetime exposure on perceptual adaptation to non-native speech. Rebecca Laturnus |
22. “Les jons fon skil veulent”: Reflections of the French nasal vowel shift in variant orthography. Jim Law |
77. Subject-verb agreement in Moncton, New Brunswick Acadian French. Emilie Leblanc |
119. Frequency and syntactic variation: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Xiaoshi Li & Robert Bayley |
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| 223. Sororithroat: The acoustic and ideological properties of an emerging voice quality. Jessica Love-Nichols & Morgan Sleeper |
83. Subjunctive/indicative alternation in Ceará Portuguese: Variation, categorical or semi-categorical areas of the subjunctive. Hebe Macedo de Carvalho |
16. Preliminary evidence of Spanish-Kaqchikel language contact in Guatemala: The case of Spanish voiceless stop aspiration in monolingual and bilingual speech.<br) Sean McKinnon |
127. Same name, same thing? Speakers see distinctions that linguists’ labels paper over. Thomas Stewart |
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| 92. Almost everyone in New York is raising PRICES (but no longer backing PRIZES). Michael Newman, Bill Haddican, Gianluke Rachiele & Zi Zi Gina Tan |
7. Social predictors of case syncretism in New York Hasidic Yiddish. Chaya R. Nove |
103. Variable direct objects in Brazilian Portuguese. Luana Nunes, Kendra V. Dickinson & Eleni Christodulelis |
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| 99. The prosodic structure of code-switching. Jonathan Steuck |
21. New ways of analyzing negative inversions in African-American and Texas Englishes. William Salmon |
104. Future expression in varieties in contact: the Spanish and the Catalan of Catalonia. Silvia Pisabarro Sarrió |
69. Changes in the timber industry as a catalyst for linguistic change. Joseph A. Stanley |
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| 3:00-4:30 | Plenary II, Varsity Hall I+II | |||
| Lauren Hall-Lew, University of Edinburgh When does a (sound) change stop progressing? Introduced by Joseph Salmons |
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| 4:40-5:50 | Poster Session II, Varsity Hall I+II | |||
| 264. Quotative markers and the pragmatics of demonstrations. Rebekah Baglini & Emily Lake |
151. Past tense reference in American Samoa: Constraints and story-telling conventions. Anja Auer |
150. Pinning down social meaning: How listener phonology shapes social perception. Martha Austen |
27. A peripheral phenomenon? Variable use of left dislocation in northern colloquial German. Christine Evans |
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| 208. Evidence for the Proteus Effect in a non-laboratory setting. Ross Burkholder & Jason Riggle |
213. Sociolinguistically-deduced sound change in Tunisian Tamazight of Zrawa: From interdentals to stops. Soubeika Bahri |
141. The myth of the New York City borough accent. Kara Becker & Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz |
142. Quantifying the complexity of code-switchingfor cross-corpus comparison. Barbara E. Bullock, AlmeidaJacqueline Toribio, Gualberto Guzmán, Joseph Ricard & Jacqueline Serigos |
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| 173. 2SG reference and (relative) gender in the Spanish of Salvadorans in Boston. Kendra V. Dickinson |
254. German echoes In American English: How new-dialect formation triggered the Northern Cities Shift. Yesid Antionio Castro Calle |
140. He said, she said: Exploring the role of gender and gendered attitudes in true and false memories. Katherine Conner & Abby Walker |
148. Depronominalization and gender ideology. Kirby Conrod |
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| 5. Linguistic distance and mutual intelligibility among South Ethiosemitic languages. Tekabe Legesse Feleke |
179. Dominican perceptions of /s/ in the diaspora. Fiona Dixon |
257. A consideration of multiple time points in a longitudinal study. Lewis Esposito |
189. Why the long FACE? Ethnic stratification and language variation in a multi-ethnic secondary school. Shivonne M. Gates |
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| 186. Social and distributional predictors of the success of lexical innovations in online writing. Ian Stewart & Jacob Eisenstein |
236. Ain’t for didn’t in African American English: Change vs. age grading. Sabriya Fisher |
266. The social meaning ofregional and ethnic accent strength in Netherlandic Standard Dutch. Stefan Grondelaers, Paul van Gent & Roeland van Hout |
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| 180. Tense/mood variation and epistemic commitment: Form-function mapping in three Romance languages. Mark Hoff |
160. Auxiliary reduction in the Spanish periphrastic past. Chad Howe |
248. What it means when you say my name (right): Subjective evaluations of the linguistic reproduction of names. Zachary Jaggers, Anaïs Elkins, Renée Blake, Natalie Povilonis de Vilchez, Luciene Simões & Matthew Stuck |
245. Can you roll your R’s? Phonetic variation in Spanish rhotic productions by heritage speakers in Southern California. Ji Young Kim & Gemma Repiso Puigdelliura |
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| 164. Regional differences in African American Vernacular English: The production of the /ay/ vowel in Northern and Southern regions of the United States. Eva Kuske |
115. Variation in word-initial /r/ in a geographically isolated community: The case of Santa Teresa, Brazil. Sarah Loriato |
210. Troppppp loooongueuuhhhh: Orthographic lengthening across French dialects. Gretchen McCulloch & Jeffrey Lamontagne |
198. Language attitudes toward African American English in California public schools. Zion Ariana Mengesha |
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| 201. “¡Estoy cerca tuyo!”: A variationist look at the expression of locatives in Spanish. Angel Milla-Munoz |
166. Formal acceptability experiments as a novel measure of variation in flexible constituent order. Savithry Namboodiripad |
175. Variable vowel convergence in a cooperative task. Jennifer Nycz & Shannon Mooney |
191. Phonological environment conditions social perception of sibilants. Jacob B. Phillips & Hillel Steinmetz |
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| 185. Where does the social meet the linguistic? Mary Robinson & Laurel MacKenzie |
182. A man needs a female like a fish needs a lobotomy: How adjectival nominalization leads to innovative reference. Melissa Robinson, Alexis Palmer & Patricia Cukor-Avila |
159. Putting the /t/ in politics: Omarosa and hyperarticulated /t/. Rachel Elizabeth Weissler |
244. The short-a split among young speakers in the Long Island suburbs of NYC. Allison Shapp |
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| 154. How to be linguistically “glocal” in Singapore: the range of a linguistic repertoire. Priscilla Shin |
222. Hot and heavy: The phonetic performance of fatness and fujoshi in ‘Kiss Him, Not Me’. Morgan Sleeper |
207. How abstract is your variable? Allophonic systems as an intraspeaker variable. Betsy Sneller |
241. The effect of gender on variable loanword adaptation of Northern Kyungsang Korean. Jiyeon Song & Amanda Dalola |
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| 6:00-7:30 | Plenary III, Varsity Hall I+II | |||
| Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, University of Texas at Austin National and diasporic linguistic varieties as evidence of social affiliations: The case of Afro-Hispanics Introduced by Catherine Stafford |
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| 8:00-11:00? | Student Mixer, The Sett, Union South (1st floor) | |||
| 7:00 am-6:00 pm | 5th Quarter Room, Registration, Breaks, Book Exhibits | |||
| Psychology 103 | Psychology 107 | Psychology 113 | Psychology 121 | |
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| Chair: Uri Horesh | Chair: Becky Childs | Panel: Social meaning and linguistic variation: A panel in honor of Penny Eckert- Part I Moderators: Lauren Hall-Lew & Robert Podesva |
Chair: Alexandra D’Arcy | |
| 8:30-8:55 | 209. Infinitive verbs, agreement and perceived competence. Ronald Beline Mendes & Fernanda Canever |
60. Divergent vs. convergent patterns of variation and change in Montréal and Welland French: The case of consequence markers. Helene Blondeau, Raymond Mougeon & Mireille Tremblay |
Pragmatics, the third wave, and the social meaning of definites. Eric Acton |
126. Investigating English contact through Spanish subject expression in Georgia. Philip P. Limerick |
| 8:55-9:20 | 181. Correlating flagging with phonological integration to distinguish LOLIs as borrowings or codeswitches. Ryan M. Bessett |
57. Tu in Brasília: The advance of a marked pronominal form in dialect focusing. Carolina Andrade & Maria Marta Pereira Scherre |
Totally and -issimo: Intensification, indexicality and markedness in English and Italian. Andrea Beltrama & Laura Staum Casasanto |
50. Progress in subject pronoun expression research: The effects of the verb revisited. Rafael Orozco & Andreina Colina |
| 9:20-9:45 | 78. Advancing routinization vs. productivity of the Spanish subjunctive. Rena Torres Cacoullos, Dora LaCasse & Michael Johns |
90. Nós and a gente ‘we’ in Brazilian Portuguese: Effect of age in urban and rural areas of Espírito Santo. Lilian C. Yacovenco, Maria Marta P. Scherre, Anthony J. Naro, Alexandre K. de Mendonça, Camila C. Foeger & Samine A. Benfica |
Cognitive representations of the sociolinguistic sign. Annette D’Onofrio |
19. Transmission of variation between homeland and heritage Faetar. Katharina Pabst, Lex Konnelly, Savannah Meslin, Fiona Wilson & Naomi Nagy |
| 9:45-10:10 | 250. Going back to the source: A diachronic comparison of the expression of necessity in two varieties of French. Laura Kastronic |
146. Variation and clitic placement among Galician neofalantes. Ildara Enríquez García |
The cognitive structure behind indexicality. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler |
45. ‘A gente sempre faz’ – Subject pronoun expression in Brazilian Portuguese. Madeline Gilbert, Gregory Guy & Mary Robinson |
| 10:10-10:30 | Break | |||
| Chair: Charles Boberg | Chair: Rena Torres Cacoullos | Panel: Social meaning and linguistic variation: A panel in honor of Penny Eckert- Part II Moderators: Lauren Hall-Lew & Robert Podesva |
Chair: James Stanford | |
| 10:30-10:55 | 233. Two sides of the style coin: Matching morphosyntactic and phonological variation across topic in middle-class African American speech. Jessica Grieser |
113. Pragmatic effects on the variable use of 2PL address forms in Andalusian Spanish. Elena Jaime Jiménez |
The role of the body in language change. Robert J. Podesva |
155. Introducing NordFA:Forced alignment of Nordic languages. Nathan J. Young & Michael McGarrah |
| 10:55-11:20 | 169. Wh-/u/ participates in vowel changes? Effects of Spanish/English Bilingualism on Southern California /u/-fronting. Wyatt Barnes & Nicole Holliday | 247. A quantitative look at ir + gerund in Ecuadorian Spanish. Emily Rae Sabo |
The social meaning of syntax. Emma Moore |
217. Linking acoustic correlates of rhoticity to perception: How the past informs the present. Rachel Miller Olsen & Margaret E. L. Renwick |
| 11:20-11:45 | 228. Residual zeros: Unanalyzed zero forms in accounts of copula deletion. Patricia Cukor-Avila & Guy Bailey |
168. Contact-induced majority language change: Quechua influence on the semantics of comitative coordination in Peruvian Spanish. Natalie Povilonis de Vilchez |
Scales of indexicality: How biography and migration create social meaning. Devyani Sharma |
177. The formantive years: Vowel change in a longitudinal study of LDS talks. O’Reilly Miani & Colin Wilson |
| 11:45-12:10 | 49. AAE Intensifier Dennamug: Syntactic change in apparent time. Taylor Jones |
14. VO vs. OV: What conditions word order variation in Media Lengua? Isabel Deibel |
Emergence of social meaning in sociolinguistic change. Qing Zhang |
243. Lexical frequency effects on the southern shift in the digital archive of Southern speech. Rachel Miller Olsen & Michael L. Olsen |
| 12:10-1:30 | LUNCH | |||
| Psychology 103 | Psychology 107 | Psychology 113 | Psychology 121 | |
| Chair: Richard Young | Chair: Jeffrey Reaser | Chair: Robin Dodsworth | Chair: Maciej Baranowski | |
| 1:30-1:55 | 100. Directives and gender in the Disney princess films: Progress? Karen Eisenhauer & Carmen Fought |
192. Teachers, students, and dialects: Examining individual literacy patterns of African American adolescents. Kelly Abrams |
17. Challenges of analysing linguistic variation in a growing metropolis: A trend study of auxiliary alternation in Montréal French (1971-2016). Béatrice Rea |
82. The jet set: Articulatory setting and the shifting vowel system of London English. Sophie Holmes-Elliott & Erez Levon |
| 1:55-2:20 | 65. The phonetics and phonology of New York City English in film. Charles Boberg |
158. Sociolinguistic partnerships in the University: The effects of linguistic materials in first year composition. J. Daniel Hasty & Becky Childs |
23. Individuals, communities and the sociolinguistic canon. Sali A. Tagliamonte & Alexandra D’Arcy |
75. The FOOT-STRUT vowels in Manchester: Evidence for the diachronic precursor to the split? Maciej Baranowski & Danielle Turton |
| 2:20-2:45 | 35. Diffusion and transmission in local and global linguistic changes. William Labov |
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| 2:45-3:45 | Plenary IV, Psychology 105 | |||
| Julie Ann Washington, Georgia State University Exploring the Growth of Language and Literacy of African American Children: The Influence of Gender and Dialectal Variation Introduced by Mark Seidenberg |
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| 3:45-4:05 | Break | |||
| Chair: Carmen Fought | Chair: Eric Raimy | Panel: African American language in the public sector: Opportunities and challenges for public education Moderator: Nicole Holliday |
Chair: Erik Thomas | |
| 4:05-4:30 | 135. /h/ insertion in a PacificEnglish: The developing methods of understanding a non-standard feature in the Federated States of Micronesia. Sara Lynch |
18. Individual variation, community coherence: Patterned variation in an incipient /ay/-raising Dialect. Stuart Davis, Kelly Berkson & Alyssa Strickler |
Linguistic Variation and Versatility among AAL Speakers in Schools and Courts John Rickford |
63. Local meanings for supra-local change: A perception study of TRAP backing in Kansas. Dan Villarreal, Mary Kohn & Tiffany Hattesohl |
| 4:30-4:55 | 195. Social meaning, style, and language variation in Beijing. Hui Zhao |
237. Language at work: Workplace conditioning of language variation in the South. Jon Forrest |
Issues of Representations in Talking Black in America: Theory and PracticeWalt Wolfram | 112. Escaping the TRAP: Losing the Northern Cities Shift in real time. Anja Thiel & Aaron J. Dinkin |
| 4:55-5:20 | 203. Quantifying contact through regionality and education: Examples from variationist studies of Arabic dialects. Uri Horesh, Enam Al-Wer & Najla M. Al-Ghamdi |
43. Production and perception of affricate /t/ and /d/ in Northeastern Brazil. Raquel Meister Ko. Freitag |
#BlackLivesMatter and Social Activism in Linguistics and Beyond Sonja Lanehart |
221. A Rust Belt Feature?:Economic change and the decline of raised TRAP in Lansing, MI. Monica Nesbitt |
| 5:20-5:45 | 240. Mapping variation in the English-speaking Caribbean: Moving toward a more complete understanding of Caribbean English. Caroline Myrick, Joel Schneier, Jeffrey Reaser & Nicole Eberle |
97. Salience and covariation in second dialect acquisition: Northeastern migrants in São Paulo. Livia Oushiro |
Discussion facilitated by Nicole Holliday | 216. Shifts toward the supra-regional in the Northern Cities region: Evidence from Jewish women in Metro Detroit. Beau-Kevin Morgan, Kelsey Deguise, Eric Acton, Daniele Benson & Alla Shvetsova |
| 6:00-7:30 | Screening of Talking Black in America with Executive Producer Walt Wolfram, Psychology 105 |
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| 8:00-11:00 | Awards Ceremony and Reception, Varsity Hall II | |||
| 7:30 am–8:45 am | NWAV Business Meeting, Industry Room | |||
| 8:00 am-1:00 pm | 5th Quarter Room, Registration, Breaks, Book Exhibits | |||
| Industry | Landmark | Northwoods | Agriculture | |
| Chair: Erez Levon | Chair: Fernando Tejedo | Chair: Sonja Lanehart | Chair: Greg Guy | |
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| 9:00-9:25 | 193. Is that an interruption? Depends on who’s listening. Katherine Hilton |
98. Finding variants in a dynamic feature space: Classification as validation. Jonathan Dunn |
68. In town or around the bay? Deontic modality and stative possession in Newfoundland. Ismar Muhic |
8. Does language contact lead to simplification or complexification? Evidence from Basque-Spanish contact. Itxaso Rodriguez |
| 9:25-9:50 | 227. Media effects on explicit language attitudes. Hayley Heaton & Robin Queen |
46. One language, two trajectories: the case of Transylvanian Saxon in the homeland and émigré community. Ariana Bancu |
96. Acoustic correlates of perceived prosodic prominence in AAE and EAE. Jason McLarty, Charlotte Vaughn & Tyler Kendall |
265. Belgian Standard Dutch is (not) dead (yet). On the omnipotence of zombie varieties. Stefan Grondelaers, Paul van Gent & Dirk Speelman |
| 9:50-10:15 | 176. Is that a gun? Race, dialect and violence stereotype. Laura Casasanto, Rebecca Rosen, Amritpal Singh & Daniel Casasanto |
107. Modeling population structure and language change in the St. Louis corridor. Jordan Kodner |
190. African American identity and vowel systems in Rochester, New York. Sharese King |
231. Language labels as ethnographic facts in Indonesia. Maya Abtahian, Abigail Cohn & Yanti |
| 10:15-10:40 | 255. Word frequency in a contact-induced change. Aaron Dinkin, Jon Forrest, & Robin Dodsworth |
59. Incomplete neutralization in African American English: The role of vowel duration. Charlie Farrington |
147. “Boy vi alltid hundra*” – Comparing ‘MAT and PAT’ replications between Danish and Swedish multiethnolects. Nathan Young |
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| 10:40-11:00 | Break | |||
| Chair: Rajiv Rao | Chair: Joshua Bousquette | Chair: Scott Kiesling | Chair: Eric Raimy | |
| 11:00-11:25 | 153. Acoustic evidence for vocalic correlates of plural /s/ deletion in Chilean Spanish. Mariska Bolyanatz |
239. Perceptual dialectology: A sixth sision of America. Gabriela Alfaraz, Alexander Mason & Bethany Dickerson |
64. Gender effects on inter and intra-speaker variance in sound change. Josef Fruehwald |
174. Do speakers converge toward variants they haven’t heard? Lacey Wade |
| 11:25-11:50 | 129. Dialect identification across a nation-state border: Perception of dialectal variants in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC. Julia Swan & Molly Babel |
106. Class, gender and ethnicity in Sydney: Revisiting social conditioning in 1970s Australia. James Grama, Catherine Travis & Simón González |
211. Gender normativity and attention to speech: The non-uniformity of gendered phonetic variation among transgender speakers. Lal Zimman |
125. The changing sounds of exceptionally aspirated stops in Diné bizaad (Navajo). Kayla Palakurthy |
| 11:50-12:15 | 157. Crossing the line: Effect of boundary representation in perceptual dialectology. Erica Benson & Anneli Williams |
105. Who belongs to the mainstream speech community? A report from Vancouver BC. Panayiotis Pappas, Irina Presnyakova & Pocholo Umbal |
259. The influence of self-perceived power on gender and sibilant perception. Ian Calloway |
88. The soft underbelly of sociolinguistics – NOT! Dennis Preston |
| 12:15-12:40 | 118. A perceptual dialect map of Indiana. Phillip Weirich & Chelsea Bonhotal |
139. Social networks and intra-speaker variance for changes in progress. Robin Dodsworth, Jessica Hatcher & Jordan Holley |
145. A certain kind of gay identity: [s+] and contextually mediated variation in gay French and German men. Zachary Boyd |
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