| NWAV 43, 2014, Chicago - Final program | ||||
| Thursday, October 23 | ||||
| 12:00 pm-6:30 pm | Registration – Hilton hotel Old Town and New Town rooms (3rd floor) | |||
| 1:00-3:00 pm | Workshop A | Workshop B | Workshop C | |
| Topic: Quantitative methods: new trends and perspectives | Topic: Community-Based Sociolinguistic Research: Methods and Action Plans | Topic: Toward Best Practices in sociophonetics | ||
| Organizer/Convener: Sali Tagliamonte Presenters: Derek Denis and Matthew Hunt Gardner (University of Toronto) | Organizers: Anne Charity-Hudley (The College of William & Mary) and Christine Mallinson (University of Maryland) | Organizer/Convener: Marianna DiPaolo (University
of Utah) Presenters: Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon) and Josef Fruehwald (University of Edinburgh) |
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| Location: Lakeshore Ballroom A | Location: Lakeshore Ballroom B | Location: Lakeshore Ballroom C | ||
| 3:00-3:30 pm | Beverage Break – River North room with 3rd floor foyer | |||
| 3:30-5:30 pm | Workshop D | Workshop E | Workshop F | |
| Topic: Perception and language attitudes | Topic: A variationist approach to language contact | Topic: Extending ELAN into Variationist Sociolinguistics | ||
| Organizer: Katie Drager (University of Hawai'i) | Organizer: Shana Poplack with Natalie Dion (University of Ottawa) | Organizers: Naomi Nagy (Univeristy of Toronto) and Miriam Meyerhoff (Victoria University Wellington) | ||
| Location: Lakeshore Ballroom B | Location: Lakeshore Ballroom A | Location: Lakeshore Ballroom C | ||
| 5:30-6:20 pm | Reception with refreshments and aperitifs hosted by Routledge in honor of Shana Poplack (speaker: Rena Torres Cacoullos and Nathalie Dion) |
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| River North room with 3rd floor foyer | ||||
| 6:20-6:30 pm | Opening Remarks | |||
| Lakeshore Ballroom, combined | ||||
| 6:30-7:30 pm | Keynote lecture 1: Professor Ruth King (York University, Toronto), "The Life Cycles of a Vernacular Form" | |||
| Lakeshore Ballroom, combined | ||||
| 7:30-9:00 pm | Dinner (on your own) | |||
| Friday, October 24 | ||||
| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | Registration - Hilton hotel Wheaton Room (2nd Floor) | |||
| 8:30 am - 6:00 pm | Book exhibit (Fri to Sun) - Old Town Room (3rd floor) | |||
| 8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Meeting Space in New Town room - All day exhibit of open-source QuakeBox Corpus from New Zealand | |||
| 7:30 - 8:30 am | Continental breakfast buffet for conference participants - River North room with 3rd floor foyer | |||
| Time | S1:
Variation in Child Language Lakeshore Ballroom A Session Chair: Matthew Rispoli |
S2:
Vowels Lakeshore Ballroom B Session Chair: Maciej Baranowski |
S3:
Language in TV, Media, and Online Lakeshore Ballroom C Session Chair: John Baugh |
S4: Convergence and
Accommodation Lincoln Park Room Session Chair: Jenny Cheshire |
| 8:30-8:55 am | Use vs non-use of negative particle ne in French: A hyper-style
variable? Mougeon, Raymond & Rehner, Katherine York University, Glendon College & University of Toronto at Mississauga |
/Vwl/ Systems Fruehwald, Josef University of Edinburgh |
Awareness in enregisterment: Performances of the California
Vowel Shift in SNL’s The Californians Pratt, Teresa & D'Onofrio, Annette Stanford University |
Borderland
Wolof: Language variation and a national border across urban and rural space
in Senegal and The Gambia Mitsch, Jane The Ohio State University |
| 8:55-9:20 am | Pre-Service English Teachers’ Development of Critical Language
Awareness for Teaching Reaser, Jeffrey; Godley, Amanda; Moore, Kaylan & Hatcher, Jessica North Carolina State U & U of Pittsburgh |
“I don’t sound Spanish, I grew up in Harlem”: Examining (ay)
monophthongization in Puerto Rican English Shousterman, Cara New York University |
Case Closed?: Authenticity in Media Portrayals of Southern
Dialects in "The Closer" and "CSI: Miami" Heaton, Hayley University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Dialect use
in a time of crisis: a report from a rural community in Northern Greece Pappas, Panayiotis Simon Fraser University |
| 9:20-9:45 am | Children’s deviation in the acquisition of variable linguistic
gender patterns Habib, Rania Syracuse University |
Is the Future Almost Here? Large-Scale Completely Automated
Vowel Extraction of Free Speech Recordings Reddy, Sravana & Stanford, James Dartmouth College |
Keeping It Real Despite the Risks: Im/politeness, Rachel
Jeantel, and Black Girls’ Codes Troutman, Denise Michigan State University |
Cross-border
convergence in loan phonology: Foreign (a) in North American English Boberg, Charles McGill University |
| 9:45-10:10 am | Teaching Language Variation in Primary School Hudgens Henderson, Mary University of New Mexico |
Short Front Vowel Lowering in Dublin English Hickey, Raymond University of Duisburg and Essen |
Stylistic variation of gender and age in blog posts in Japanese:
From a perspective of the third wave of variation research Nishimura, Yukiko Toyo Gakuen University |
On the
(lack of) long term accommodation in the regional vowels of college
students Campbell-Kibler, Kathryn; Walker, Abby; Wanjema, Shontael The Ohio State University & Virginia Tech |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Beverage Break – River North room with 3rd floor foyer | |||
| Time | S5: Consonants Lakeshore Ballroom A Session Chair: Charles Boberg |
S6: Back
Vowels Lakeshore Ballroom B Session Chair: Rajend Mesthrie |
S7: Verbal
Morphosyntax Lakeshore Ballroom C Session Chair: Scott Schwenter |
S8:
Borrowing and Language Contact Lincoln Park Room Session Chair: Gillian Sankoff |
| 10:30-10:55 am | A Bunch of
BULL Shift: Patterns of Pre-/l/ FOOT merger in Kansas City Strelluf, Christopher Northwest Missouri State University |
"Oh [o:], I'm the token Asian": A potential vowel
marker of ethnic identity Bauman, Carina New York University |
Habían profesores: A usage-based analysis of the pluralization of haber in Spanish Díaz-Campos, Manuel; Hoff, Mark & Piqueres-Gilabert, Rosa María Indiana University & The Ohio State University |
An exception to the rule? Lone French nouns in Tunisian
Arabic Poplack, Shana; Sayahi, Lotfi; Mourad, Nahed & Dion, Nathalie University of Ottawa & University at Albany, SUNY |
| 10:55-11:20 am | Multiple
Mergers: Production and perception of three pre-/l/ mergers in Youngstown,
Ohio Arnold, Lacey North Carolina State University |
Regional variation in Hawaiʻi Creole low back vowels Grama, James University of Hawaii at Manoa |
A Construction Grammar Perspective of Spanish Variable Clitic
Placement Requena, Pablo Pennsylvania State University |
Quantitative analysis of language contact as a predictor of
change in Palestinian Arabic Horesh, Uri Northwestern University |
| 11:20-11:45 am | Phonotactic
simplification in borrowed /TH/-fronting Sneller, Betsy University of Pennsylvania |
Sound change in the back vowels of Hawai'i English Drager, Katie; Simpson, Sean; Grama, James & Kirtley, M. Joelle University of Hawai'i, Georgetown University & University of Hawai'i |
Morphological variation in the English past tense: Probabilistic
regularities within and across speakers Rácz, Péter; Beckner, Clay; Hay, Jennifer & Pierrehumbert, Janet New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behavior & Northwestern University |
Frequency and diffusion as indicators of French noun borrowing
in Moroccan Arabic Post, Rebekah University of Texas at Austin |
| 11:45 am - 12:10 pm | T[ʉ]
c[ʉɫ] for sch[ʉɫ]: the interaction of /l/-darkening and
/u/-fronting in Manchester Turton, Danielle & Baranowski, Maciej University of Manchester |
The relationship between the high and mid back vowels in
Oregonian English McLarty, Jason & Kendall, Tyler University of Oregon |
‘She said {that/Ø} she couldn’t take a complement’:
Complementizer that omission in American English Bleaman, Isaac; Duncan, Daniel; Feuer, Shelley; Guy, Gregory; Jaggers, Zachary & Stuck, Matthew New York University |
Predicting variation in the frequency, dispersion, and the
success of loanwords Bullock, Barbara; Serigos, Jacqueline & Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline University of Texas at Austin |
| 12:10-1:45 pm | Lunch Break / Walt Wolfram’s movie | |||
| 12:30-1:45 pm | Walt
Wolfram’s movie "First Language: The Race to
Save Cherokee" and Q/A session Lakeshore Ballrooms, combined (sale of individual tickets for outside guests will be offered at the entrance to the room) |
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| 1:45-2:00 pm | Homage
to Walt Wolfram on the occasion of winning North Carolina’s highest civilian
honor (speaker: John Rickford) Lakeshore Ballrooms, combined |
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| 2:00-3:00 pm | Keynote Lecture 2: Professor Robert Bayley (University of California, Davis), "The Role of Frequency in Phonological and Morphosyntactic Variation" | |||
| Lakeshore Ballrooms, combined | ||||
| 3:00 – 3:45 pm | Beverage Break - River North room with 3rd floor foyer | |||
| Time | S9: Place and
Variation Lakeshore Ballroom A Session Chair: Jennifer Cramer |
S10:
Perception and Attitudes Lakeshore Ballroom B Session Chair: Katie Drager |
S11:
Priming and Grammaticalization Lakeshore Ballroom C Session Chair: Rena Torres Cacoullos |
S12:
Language Contact and Acquisition Lincoln Park Room Session Chair: Penelope Gardner-Chloros |
| 3:45-4:10 pm | “Somos
[ʃ]oqueros:” Indexing inherent locality through nonstandard
[ʃ] Regan, Brendan University of Texas at Austin |
Language attitudes and vowel lengthening in Córdoba, Argentina:
An acoustical approach Lang-Rigal, Jennifer James Madison University |
Dialect Contact in Brasília: Variation in Second Person Singular
Pronouns Andrade, Carolina; Scherre, Marta & Guy, Gregory Universidadede Brasília, UniversidadeFederal do Espírito Santo & New York University |
Language Contact in a Combined Variationist and SLA Context :
Testing the effects of language contact and learner proficiency on the
development of sociolinguistic competence in L2 French Past temporal
reference Harding, Lindsay York University |
| 4:10-4:35 pm | “I don’t
ca(r)e about football”: Rhoticity in second language acquisition and local
identity Lin, Yuhan The Ohio State University |
“It’s Complicated”: Perceptions of Dialect Southernness in Deer
Park, Texas Oxley, Meghan University of Washington |
Priming mechanisms in phonological and morphological
persistence Tamminga, Meredith University of Pennsylvania |
Social networks and study abroad: the emergence of
sociostylistic variation in L2 French learners Kennedy Terry, Kristen Saint Mary's College of California |
| 4:35-5:00 pm | "That
Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico": What (r) can tell us about English in
New York & New Orleans Carmichael, Katie & Becker, Kara Virginia Tech & Reed College |
A Look at Three Oklahoma Dialect Features Bakos, Jon Oklahoma State University |
A New Look at Word Order Change: Constant Rate Hypothesis,
Logistic Regression and Bayesian Statistics Scrivner, Olga Indiana University |
Acquisition of structured morphosyntactic variation in a
bilingual setting: Children’s Spanish subjects pronoun expression in the U.S.
Pacific Northwest Shin, Naomi Lapidus & Van Buren, Jackelyn University of New Mexico |
| 5:00-5:25 pm | Phonetic
cues to Localness in Hawai‘i English: Feature clusters influencing
perception Simpson, Sean Georgetown University |
Attitudes in the Classroom, Attitudes in the Street: Belizean
Creole and the Effects of Setting on a Verbal Guise Study Salmon, William University of Minnesota |
The role of gender in the grammaticalization process of the
Japanese connective (sore)de Tanno, Koji Arizona State University |
South Florida Latino English: Spanish substrate influence on
embedded clause structures Sims, Nandi & Thompson, Ellen Florida International University |
| 5:25 – 6:00 pm | Beverage Break - River North room with 3rd floor foyer | |||
| 5:30 - 6:00 pm | Setting up of Posters - Wheaton Room (2nd floor) | |||
| 6:00-7:30 pm | Poster
Session Wheaton Room (2nd floor) |
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| P1. Using
experimental data to check the transmission of language change: a case study
about the acquisition of relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese Baptista de Abreu, Ana Cristina & Abreu Gomes, Christina Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
P2. A
Sociophonetic Approach to Mid Vowel Raising in the Spanish of Michoacán,
Mexico Barajas, Jennifer Bradley University |
P3. Punks,
Queers, and Anarchists: Linguistic Variation from the Outside Bigham, Douglas S. San Diego State University |
P4. Latin@
in Chicago: Constructing ethnic identities in research interviews Brokamp, Ryan; Miranda, Consuelo; Munoz, Elvis; Trujillo, Eduardo; Viveros, Natalie; Wahdan, Islam; Stockburger, Inge & Kaplan-Weinger, Judith Northeastern Illinois University & DePaul University |
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| P5. Phonetic
cues, indexical fields, and the perception of gender and sexual
orientation Brown, LeAnn University of Toronto |
P6. The
Patterning and Matching of Indexicalities within Supportive
Conversations Cannava, Kaitlin Lousiana State University |
P7. Cape
Town English: the southern limit of the Canadian and Californian
shifts? Chevalier, Alida University of Cape Town |
P8. Sociophonetic
Intraspeaker Variation: the case of the second-generation speaker Corbett, Cecily B. University at Albany, SUNY |
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| P9. Vowel
fronting and lengthening as related to Southerners' perception of
femininity Courville, Brittany & Shport, Irina Louisiana State University |
P10. Examining
the results of dialect contact between Palestinian communities in Gaza Cotter, William University of Arizona |
P11. Perceiving
and Placing Voices at the Border Cramer, Jennifer University of Kentucky |
P12. Linguistic Variation as Evidence of (C)overt Attitudes toward Speakers’ Group
Identification Cutler, Cecelia & Yaeger-Dror, Malcah CUNY Lehman College & University of Arizona |
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| P13. Stereotypes,
Markers, & Indicators in Contact-induced Phenomena: Sociophonetic
Variation in Barcelona Davidson, Justin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
P14. “Mock
Manly Speech”: Polyphonic Resources in the construction of hegemonic
masculine personae Edgar, Nicole University of Victoria |
P15. Gender
and politeness rules in Brazilian Portuguese: 1st person plural
pronouns Freitag, Raquel Meister Ko. Federal University at Sergipe, Brazil |
P16. Advancing
statistical approaches to sociophonetic variation: A case study of Ecuadorian
Spanish García, Christina The Ohio State University |
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| P17. What
does a corpus of SMS messages tell us about syntactic variation? The case of
Yes/No questions in European French Guryev, Alexander University of Neuchâtel |
P18. Maintenance
of the COT-CAUGHT contrast among Detroit speakers: A multimodal articulatory
analysis Havenhill, Jonathan Georgetown University |
P19. Deixis
in MalakMalak: A case of language change in an endangered language Hoffmann, Dorothy The University of Chicago |
P20. What
Does My Bangla Say About My English? Khan, Naira Stanford University |
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| P21. Sociophonetic Variation in the voiced alveolar lateral fricative in
Yami Lai, Li-Fang & Gooden, Shelome University of Pittsburgh |
P22. Explaining
trill production within a usage-based framework: The case of Panama City
Spanish Lamy, Delano S. University de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras |
P23. Constraints
on Subject Pronoun Use in Southeastern US Spanish: Findings from Roswell,
Georgia Limerick, Philip University of Georgia |
P24. Use
and Perception of Creaky Voice Quality in US Women’s Speech Loss, Sara & Zold, Elizabeth Oklahoma State University & Winona State University |
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| P25. From Jeff Spicoli to Woody Wooderson: Chill Bro-Dudes, GOOSE, GOAT, and the
Urban Southwest Mahler, Taylor; Jenné, Danielle & Bigham, Douglas San Diego State University |
P26. First
person plural concord in central Brazil: Local identification Mattos, Shirley Universidade Federal de Goiás |
P27. Dialect
Representation in Corsican School Materials Mendes, Alex University of California, Davis |
P28. Investigating an Acoustic Measure of Perceived Isochrony Mooney, Shannon & Sullivan, Grace Georgetown University |
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| P29. Gestural
Reduction as a Function of Phonological Contexts: a Study of Word-final t/d
Deletion Nakamura, Mitsuhiro Nihon University |
P30. “She's
Vietnamese American, but she speaks in a Minnesotan accent”: Ethnic identity
and /æ/-raising Nguyen, Emily New York University |
P31. Gender,
ideology, and stancetaking toward African American English Nylund, Anastasia Georgetown University |
P32. The
Canadian Vowel Shift: Shifting Westward Phillips-Boyle, Selena York University |
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| P33. Attitudes toward Contact Varieties in Lima, Peru Povilonis de Vilchez, Natalie New York University |
P34. The
realization of rising pitch as a socio-pragmatic identity marker in
Appalachian English Reed, Paul University of South Carolina |
P35. Mixed-effects
models and unbalanced sociolinguistic data: The need for caution Roy, Joseph & Levey, Stephen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & University of Ottawa |
P36. Uniformity
and variation in computer-mediated communication: Twitter styles of The Real Housewives Squires, Lauren M. The Ohio State University |
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| P37. Women,
but not men, perceive declarative rises (uptalk) more positively than
falls Tyler, Joseph Morehead State University |
P38. The
use of uptalk in Spanish dating shows? Vergara, Daniel University of Illinois at Chicago |
P39. Variation
in anaphoric direct object placement in European Portuguese: Frequency and
Topicality Washington, Hannah B. The Ohio State University |
P40. Modeling Frequency Effects in Mandarin Zero-onset Variation Zhang, Shuo Georgetown University |
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| 7:30-9:00 pm | Opening reception and buffet-style dinner (Lakeshore Ballrooms, combined) hosted by Cambridge University Press | |||
| Saturday, October 25 | ||||
| 8:00 am - 6:00 pm | Registration - Hilton hotel Wheaton Room (2nd floor) | |||
| 8:30 am - 6:00 pm | Book exhibit (Fri to Sun) - Old Town Room (3rd floor) | |||
| 8:30 am - 6:00 pm | Meeting Space in New Town room | |||
| 7:30-8:30 am | Continental breakfast buffet for conference participants - River North room with 3rd floor foyer | |||
| Time | S13: (De-)Voicing Lakeshore Ballroom A Session Chair: Erik Thomas |
S14:
Modalities of Perception Lakeshore Ballroom B Session Chair: Naomi Nagy |
S15:
Extenders and Stuff Lakeshore Ballroom C Session Chair: Sali Tagliamonte |
S16:
Modeling Variation Lincoln Park Room Session Chair: Ceil Lucas |
| 8:30-8:55 am | Final
Consonant Devoicing as a Marker of Professional Class African American
Identity: A Community Study in Washington, D.C. Grieser, Jessica Georgetown University |
“I think your going to like me”: Typographical & grammatical
errors influence our assessment of the message and the writer Boland, Julie & Queen, Robin University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Active retirees: The persistence of obsolescent features Van Herk, Gerard & Childs, Becky Memorial University of Newfoundland & Coastal Carolina University |
Cyclic Degrading: Strict cyclicity meets variable rules Shwayder, Kobey; Kwon, Soohyun & McLaughlin, Brittany University of Pennsylvania & Carnegie Mellon University |
| 8:55-9:20 am | Phonemic
boundaries floating on phonetic variation: Driving forces in Z
devoicing Hazen, Kirk West Virginia University |
Chinese Characters and Speech Perception Tso Ru-Ping, Ruby Rice University |
Extending over time: General extenders in Danish Christensen, Tanya Karoli; Jensen, Torben Juel & Christensen, Marie Herget LANCHART, University of Copenhagen |
New
Ways of Analyzing Perceptual Dialectology Data with GIS and R: Investigating
Factors that Influence Koreans' Perceptions of a Standard Dialect
Region Jeon, Lisa Rice University |
| 9:20-9:45 am | Social
Influences on the Degree of Stop Voicing in Inland California Podesva, Robert; Eckert, Penelope; Fine, Julia; Hilton, Katherine; Jeong, Sunwoo & King, Sharese Stanford University |
Citizen Sociolinguistics and the “Accent Challenge”: Toward a
New Sociolinguistic Methodology using Internet-Circulated Social Media Rymes, Betsy & Leone, Andrea University of Pennsylvania |
Homogeneity, convergence, mega-trends, and stuff like that Denis, Derek & D'Arcy, Alexandra University of Toronto & University of Victoria |
Public Legacies: Spanish-English (in)authenticity in the
linguistic landscape of Pilsen, Chicago Lyons, Kate & Rodríguez, Itxaso University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 9:45-10:10 am | The apple
doesn’t fall far from the tree: incremental change in Philadelphia
families Fisher, Sabriya; Prichard, Hilary & Sneller, Betsy University of Pennsylvania |
The effects of media exposure on grammaticality judgment Peng, Chun-Yi The Graduate Center, CUNY |
Regional Variation of General Extender Usage in a Geo-tagged
Microblog Corpus of American English Kessler, Joseph University at Buffalo, SUNY |
Word order and NP characteristics in Cuban Spanish: pragmatic
and sociolinguistic variation |
| 10:10-10:30 am | Short Break | |||
| Time | S17:
Mergers Lakeshore Ballroom A Session Chair: Josef Fruehwald |
S18:
Pronominal Subjects Lakeshore Ballroom B Session Chair: Robert Bayley |
S19:
Ethnicity in Language Contact Lakeshore Ballroom C Session Chair: Janet Fuller |
S20:
Social Factors in Language Change Lincoln Park Room Session Chair: Salikoko Mufwene |
| 10:30-10:55 am | Bag, beg,
bagel: Prevelar raising and merger in Seattle Caucasians Freeman, Valerie University of Washington |
Concord without concord: 1st plural
pronoun nós ‘we’ in Brazilian Portuguese Scherre, Marta; Naro, Anthony; Mattos, Shirley; Foeger, Camila; Benfica, Samine Univ. Federal do Espírito Santo, Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro & Univ. Federal de Goiás |
Ethnic orientation without quantification: How life "on the
hyphen" affects sociolinguistic variation Newlin-Lukowicz, Luiza New York University |
Stylistic Innovation and Indexical Obsolescence Eckert, Penelope Stanford University |
| 10:55-11:20 am | Language contact, language shift, and phonetic convergence: Loss
of the mid-vowel contrasts in modern urban Galician Amengual, Mark & Chamorro, Pilar University of California, Santa Cruz & University of Georgia |
How Specificity and Topic Persistence Affect First Person Plural
Subject Pronoun Expression in Mexican Spanish LaCasse, Dora & Goodrow, Erika The Pennsylvania State University |
The Ethnic Distribution of a Regional Change: /æg, ɛg, eg/
in Washington State Riebold, John University of Washington |
Occupational Networks and Linguistic Differences among
White-Collar Speakers Forrest, Jon North Carolina State University |
| 11:20-11:45 am | Pivots of
the Caribbean: A Vowel Merger in Bequia Walker, James & Meyerhoff, Miriam York University & Victoria University of Wellington |
The Verb as a Predictor of Variable Pronominal Use in
Spanish Orozco, Rafael; Mendez Vallejo, Catalina & Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann Louisiana State University & Princeton University |
The Status of Raised /ɔ/ among Bergen County (New Jersey)
Korean Americans and its Social Meaning Lee, Jinsok Georgetown University |
A peripheral view of a change from above: Prestige forms over
time in a medium-sized community Brook, Marisa University of Toronto |
| 11:45 am - 12:10 pm | The
NORTH-FORCE merger in Manchester Baranowski, Maciej University of Manchester |
Variable Pronouns in Spanish and the role of the
syntax-pragmatics interface Adli, Aria University of Cologne |
A Tale of Two Cities: quotatives and other features in London
and Paris Cheshire, Jenny; Gardner-Chloros, Penelope & Secova, Maria Queen Mary, University of London & Birkbeck, University of London |
Gender and substrate erasure amongst young, Black, middle-class
South African English speakers Mesthrie, Rajend University of Cape Town |
| 12:10-12:30 pm | New Town Room (3rd) floor - Escobar edited volume presentation | |||
| 12:10-2:00 pm | Lunch (on your own) | |||
| Time Please note the panel times run concurrent to the two sessions just below. |
Panel 1 – Northern Cities Shift | Panel 2 – Novel impact pathways in variationist linguistics | ||
| Sponsored by the American Dialect Society | Organizers: Pichler et al. | |||
| Organizer: Matt Gordon | ||||
| Lincoln Park Room | Lakeshore Ballroom A | |||
| 2:00-3:50 pm | Durian, David: Another look at the Short-a Systems of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Chicago in Pederson's PEMC data, DARE, and LANCS | Hesson, Ashley & Pichler, Heike: Discourse-pragmatic variation in healthcare settings: Form-function correlations in the use of I DON’T KNOW | ||
| The Ohio State University | Michigan
State University & Newcastle University |
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| Gordon, Matt & Strelluf, Christopher: A Tale of Two Inland North Cities: Implications for the History of the Northern Cities Shift | Lawson, Eleanor; Stuart-Smith, Jane & Scobbie, James: Seeing the links in the speaker-hearer chain: Accent-feature acquisition and modelling in speech therapy | |||
| University of Missouri | University of Glasgow, Indiana University & Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh | |||
| Friedman, Lauren: A Convergence of Dialects in Saint Louis Corridor | Shellgren, Madeline: Measuring real-time judgments in sociolinguistics and beyond | |||
| University of Pennnsylvania | Michigan State University | |||
| Labov, William: What we do and do not know about the Northern Cities Shift | Clark, Lynn; Hay, Jen & Walsh, Liam: Investigating within-speaker variation in the QuakeBox Canterbury earthquake stories | |||
| University of Pennnsylvania | University of Canterbury | |||
| Time Please note the times run concurrent to the two panels just above |
S21:
Complementizers and Infinitives Lakeshore Ballroom B Session Chair: Chad Howe |
S22:
Linguistic Variation and the Individual Lakeshore Ballroom C Session Chair: Sonja Lanehart |
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| 2:00-2:25 pm | Need to vs. have to and got to: A corpus study in semantic
variation Glass, Lelia Stanford University |
The Hmong Among Many: A Descriptive Analysis of a Southern
Interlanguage Variety Chung, May F. North Carolina State University |
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| 2:25-2:50 pm | Null complementizers in Twitter Spanish Rodríguez Riccelli, Adrián University of Texas at Austin |
The effect of salience on co-variation in Brazilian
Portuguese Oushiro, Livia Universidade de São Paulo |
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| 2:50-3:15 pm | Take that away, and what do you get: A study on complementizer
variation in American English Feuer, Shelley & Stuck, Matthew The New School & New York University |
Quantitative Analysis of the Linguistic Individual Bailey, Guy & Cukor-Avila, Patricia University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley & University of North Texas |
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| 3:15-3:40 pm | The Importance of Clause Type in Portuguese (Un)inflected
Infinitives Christodulelis, Eleni The Ohio State University |
The flock and the individual: Priming as an artifact of
individual variation Gradoville, Michael Spelman College |
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| 3:50-4:00 pm | Short Break | |||
| Time | S23: Prosodic
Variation Lakeshore Ballroom A Session Chair: Rob Podesva |
S24:
Phonetic Detail in Dialectal Variation Lakeshore Ballroom B Session Chair: Tyler Kendall |
S25:
Negation Lakeshore Ballroom C Session Chair: Suzanne Wagner |
S26:
Adverbial Clauses and Effects Lincoln Park Room Session Chair: Ruth King |
| 4:00-4:25 pm | Social
Meaning and Intonation: Rising Contours in Mexican Spanish Martínez Gómez, Rebeca University of New Mexico |
Shtreets of Philadelphia Gylfadottir, Duna University of Pennsylvania |
Comparative Sociolinguistic Insights in the Evolution of
Negation Childs, Claire; Harvey, Christopher; Corrigan, Karen & Tagliamonte, Sali Newcastle University & University of Toronto |
Aspect markers ‘steady’ and ‘stay’ in African American
English Scott, Candice University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 4:25-4:50 pm | More than
Frybread: English prosody and Native American ethnic identity Newmark, Kalina & Walker, Nacole Dartmouth College & Sitting Bull College |
Phonetic and Phonological Variation In Northern and Southern
Mam: Dialects of a Mayan Language Morris, Paul University of Iowa |
Priming effects in the use of más + negative constructions: A
quantitative analysis of oral data Zahler, Sara & Díaz-Campos, Manuel Indiana University |
Contrasting constraints in future temporal reference Comeau, Philip & Villeneuve, Anne-José University of Ottawa & University of Toronto |
| 4:50-5:15 pm | High
Rising Terminals in London: Gender, Ethnicity and Interactional Meaning Levon, Erez; Allen, Kirsty; Kennard, Harry; Marchetti, Chiara & Zhao, Annette Queen Mary, University of London |
Non-coarticulatory vowel nasalization in Taiwanese
Mandarin Shepherd, Michael & Liang, Ya-Shu Fresno State University |
Nada mais variation in Brazilian Portuguese, mais nada Peake, Justin & Schwenter, Scott The Ohio State University |
Future Temporal Reference in New Brunswick Acadian French Chiasson-Léger, Mélissa University of Ottawa |
| 5:10-5:35 pm | ‘Let’s talk
about Reading!’: The role of rhythm in drag queen ritual insult Calder, Jeremy Stanford University |
(dh) across North American English dialects: comparing internal
constraints Koops, Chris University of New Mexico |
The Variable Grammar of Negative Concord in Montréal
French Burnett, Heather; Tremblay, Mireille & Blondeau, Hélène Université de Montréal & University of Florida |
The Development of do-Support with Negative Possessive have in
the History of American English Zimmermann, Richard Université de Genève |
| 5:40 – 6:00 pm | Beverage Break - River North room with 3rd floor foyer | |||
| 6:00-6:30 pm | Homage to William Labov on the occasion of his
retirement (speakers: Kirk Hazen and Gregory Guy) Lakeshore Ballrooms, combined |
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| 6:30-7:30 pm | Keynote Lecture 3: Professor Gregory R. Guy (New York University) "Bricks and bricolage: The question of sociolinguistic coherence" | |||
| Lakeshore Ballrooms, combined | ||||
| 7:30 PM | Dinner (on your own) | |||
| 8:30 - 10:30 PM | Student Mixer - The Grill on the Alley (909 N Michigan Ave, see map in booklet) | |||
| Sunday, October 26 | ||||
| 7:45-8:45 am | Business meeting (River North room) | |||
| 8:00-9:00 am | Continental breakfast (3rd floor Foyer and River North room) | |||
| Time | S27: Near Mergers Lakeshore Ballroom A Session Chair: James Stanford |
S28:
Syntactic Variation Lakeshore Ballroom B Session Chair: James Walker |
S29:
Modality Lakeshore Ballroom C Session Chair: Alexandra d'Arcy |
S30:
Dialect Contact Lincoln Park Room Session Chair: Maya Ravindranath |
| 9:00-9:25 am | Canadian
Shift in time, or is it in space? Rosen, Nicole & Heinrichs, Melissa University of Manitoba |
Comparing memory-based learning and regression approaches in the
explanation of syntactic variation and change in Belgian and Netherlandic
Dutch Grondelaers, Stefan; Van den Bosch, Antal; Speelman, Dirk, & Roeland van Hout Radboud University Nijmegen & University of Leuven |
Prescription vs. praxis: The evolution of Spanish imperfect
subjunctive Elias, Vanessa; Filimonova, Valentyna & Mojedano, Andrea Indiana University |
A First Look at Miami Latino English: Tracking Spanish Substrate
Influence through Prosodic and Vocalic Variation Carter, Phillip M.; López, Lydda & Sims, Nandi Florida International University |
| 9:25-9:50 am | Merger
within the individual: Evidence from The Twin Cities, Minnesota Bauer, Matt Illinois Institute of Technology |
P[NP-&-NP] – [PP]-&-[PP] variation: A unified
account Garrett, Jordan Indiana University |
“We wouldn't have got this far if we wouldn't have had faith”: A
variationist account of the protasis of English counterfactual conditional
sentences Day, Meagan & Sheard, William University of Florida |
Measuring dialect contact: The conceptual cost of traveling
across Maryland Abrams, Kelly & Purnell, Thomas University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| 9:50-10:15 am | Partial
mergers and near-distinctions: stylistic layering in dialect
acquisition Johnson, Daniel Ezra & Nycz, Jennifer Lancaster University & Georgetown University |
Variable agreement with Spanish binominal constructions Howe, Chad University of Georgia |
A shift in deontic modals in Mexican Spanish: “Ocupo, quiero,
necesito ir al cine” Honea, Katherine & Lamy, Delano Austin Peay State University & Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras |
Shifty processes: the relationship between topic-based shifting
and second dialect acquisition Walker, Abby Virginia Tech |
| 10:15-10:40 am | Reversal of
the Northern Cities Shift in Syracuse, New York Driscoll, Anna & Lape, Emma Dartmouth College |
Variation in Syntax: Null expletives and raised constituents in
Brazilian Portuguese Duarte, Maria Eugenia L. & Kato, Mary A. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro & Universidade Estadual de Campinas |
Stancetaking and stylization through the use of “ye” in Asturian
Spanish Barnes, Sonia Marquette University |
Clustering variants in Acadian French LeBlanc, Emilie York University |
| 10:40 – 11:00 am | Beverage Break – River North room with 3rd floor foyer | |||
| Time | S31: Social and Cognitive
Conditioning of Perception Lakeshore Ballroom A Session Chair: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler |
S32: Null
Subjects and Objects Lakeshore Ballroom B Session Chair: Manuel Díaz-Campos |
S33:
Social Factors in Regional Variation Lakeshore Ballroom C Session Chair: Walt Wolfram |
S34:
Diachrony and Synchrony in Language Change Lincoln Park Room Session Chair: Thomas Purnell |
| 11:00-11:25 am | Perception,
cognition and linguistic structure: The effect of linguistic modularity and
cognitive style on sociolinguistic processing Buchstaller, Isabelle & Levon, Erez Leipzig University & Queen Mary University of London |
Early conditioning of Spanish variable subject expression Torres Cacoullos, Rena; Berry, Grant; Champi, Chris; Perrotti, Lauren & Ramos, Miguel The Pennsylvania State University |
Sourdoughs in the City: Towards an Understanding of Regional
Variation in Anchorage, Alaska Bowie, David & Dannenberg, Clare J. University of Alaska Anchorage |
Senior peer pressure' and late-stage language change Wagner, Suzanne Evans & Sankoff, Gillian Michigan State University & University of Pennsylvania |
| 11:25-11:50 am | Persona-based
information and automatic linguistic perception: Evidence from
TRAP-backing D'Onofrio, Annette Stanford University |
Older speakers use more null subjects, but the variable is
stable: Accounting for contrasting reports of contact effects in Italian and
Faetar Nagy, Naomi & Iannozzi, Michael University of Toronto |
“Just a Regular Guy”: Dialect variation and parodic stylization
on Chicago radio Hallett, Jill & Hallett, Richard Northeastern Illinois University |
“Toronto has everything”, “Toronto’s got it all”:
Ethnolinguistic Dimensions of have in Toronto English Hoffman, Michol F. & Walker, James A. York University |
| 11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Dialect
perception in Spanish-speaking Miami: The interaction of top-down and
bottom-up stimuli Callesano, Salvatore & Carter, Phillip Florida International University |
Operationalizing reference in Spanish subject pronoun
variation Alfaraz, Gabriela Michigan State University |
Gender and cool solidarity in Mexican Spanish slang
phrases Sierra, Sylvia & Simonson, Dan Georgetown University |
Taking possession of the Constant Rate Hypothesis: Variation in
Ancient Egyptian Possessive Constructions Gardiner, Shayna University of Toronto |
| 12:15-12:40 pm | What does
the linguistic environment contribute to social meaning? Callier, Patrick Stanford University |
Towards an Understanding of Null and Overt Object Variation in
Basque Spanish Sainzmaza-Lecanda, Lorena The Ohio State University |
Sex and the NP: Plural Marking as an Index of Masculinity Beline Mendes, Ronald Universidade de São Paulo |
Testing the predictions of usage-based models on language change
across the lifespan MacKenzie, Laurel The University of Manchester |