NWAV40 SCHEDULE (current as of October 23rd 2011)
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Thursday, October
27th
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Workshop Session 1 |
Workshop 1 ICC 550 |
Workshop 2 McGhee Library |
Workshop 3 Leavey Program
Room |
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1:30pm –
3:30pm |
Jorge Aguilar-Sanchez |
Launching a sociolinguistics community
outreach project in the public schools Mary Bucholtz, Audrey Lopez, Allina Mojarro, Elena Skapoulli,
Christopher VanderStouwe and Shawn Warner-Garcia |
New methods for large‐scale automatic vowel analysis Ingrid Rosenfelder and William Labov |
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3:30pm –
4:00pm |
Break |
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Workshop Session 2 |
Workshop 4 New Research
Building Auditorium |
Workshop 5 McGhee Library |
Workshop 6 Leavey Program
Room |
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4:00pm –
6:00pm |
Speech synthesis for sociophoneticians Chris Koops |
William Kretzschmar, Salikoko Mufwene and Allison Burkette |
Panel on demographic coding for
sociolinguistic corpus archive preparation Christopher Cieri and Malcah Yaeger-Dror |
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6:00pm –
6:30 pm |
Break |
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6:30pm –
8:00pm |
Plenary Address Lohrfink
Auditorium Deborah Schiffrin, Georgetown University |
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8:00pm –
10:00pm |
Opening Reception Fisher
Colloquium |
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Friday, October 28th
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Paper Session 1 8:20am – 10:00am |
Variation in Child and Adolescent
Language Sponsored
by the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development Chair: Manuel Diaz-Campos ICC 450 |
Language and Dialect Contact Chair: Michael Friesner McGhee
Library |
Ethics and Applications Chair: Michelle Ramos-Pellicia Leavey Program Room |
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8:20am – 8:45am |
#63 Learning sound patterns in the Jamaican classroom:
Variationist and usage-based model perspectives Vronique Lacoste |
#45 Demonstrating the simultaneous effect of
continuity, contact, and leveling in bilingual settings Ricardo Otheguy and Ana Celia Zentella |
#285 Conducting ethical research Sonja Lanehart |
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8:45am – 9:10am |
#139 Generalized acquisition constraints and dialect-specific
norms in child AAE copula development Erin Callahan-Price |
Linda van Meel and Frans Hinskens |
#102 Thats what I seen/saw: Effects of
linguistic variation on witness credibility Matthew Gordon and Julia Hartman |
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9:10am – 9:35am |
#281 Children, Canadian raising and new directions for an old
variable Emily Sadlier-Brown |
#249 What happens when dialectal parallelism
meets language contact? Rafael Orozco |
#29 Facing the issues: Social media, ethics,
and methodology Taylor Marie Young and Alexandra DArcy |
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9:35am – 10:00am |
#101 The local vs. the supra-regional norms: The case of
Arabic interdentals Aziza Al-Essa |
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#248 A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between
reading and AAE vernacularity Janneke Van Hofwegen and Reuben Stob |
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10:00am – 10:15am |
Break |
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10:15am – 12:30pm |
All-Star
Plenary Panel: Lohrfink Auditorium Roger W. Shuy, Georgetown University, Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown University, Dennis R. Preston, Oklahoma State University, Gillian Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania, Penelope Eckert, Stanford University, Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa, Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University Discussant: John R. Rickford, Stanford University |
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12:30pm – 2:00 pm |
Lunch |
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Paper Session 2 2:00 pm – 4:05 pm |
Vowel Shifts I Chair: Marianna Di
Paolo ICC 103 |
Panel 1 ICC 105 |
Structures and Styles in AAE Sponsored by the Georgetown University
African American Studies Program Chair: Alexandra DArcy ICC 108 |
Exploring and Evaluating Models and Methods Chair: Jorge Aguilar-Sanchez ICC 450 |
Panel 2 Leavey Program Room |
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4:05pm – 4:20 pm |
Break |
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6:00 pm – 6:30 pm |
Break |
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Paper Session 4 6:30 pm – 8:35 pm |
Global Perspectives on Changes in
Progress ICC 101 |
Vowel Shifts II ICC 103 |
Panel 5 ICC 105 |
Variation in Pronoun Expression ICC 108 |
Panel 4 Sponsored
by the Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International
Migration ICC 115 |
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6:30 pm – 6:55 pm |
#77 The importance of the lexicon in
determining the directionality of a phonological change Marcelo A. S. L. Melo and Christina A. Gomes |
#6 Canadian English //: Regional and social variants Charles Boberg |
#282 Reflection on our foundations:
Sociolinguistic constructs in social theoretic perspective Chris Taylor Phillip Carter Melissa Frazier Robin Dodsworth Katherine Geenberg Rebecca Greene |
Aarnes Gudmestad and Kimberly L. Geeslin |
#273 Language and place: Rethinking the role of
place in language variation Jermay Jamsu, Walt Wolfram, Cala Zubair, Amelia Tseng, James N.
Stanford, Dennis R. Preston Discussant: Barbara Johnstone |
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6:55 pm – 7:20 pm |
Kenjiro Matsuda |
#40 A cross-generational acoustic study of the front vowels of
native Oregonians Katherine Nelson |
Ana Carvalho |
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7:20 pm – 7:45 pm |
#264 A new exploration of ongoing change in the Maori
possession system Kenneth Baclawski Jr. |
#99 Social correlates of changes in mid-vowels in Northern
England Bill Haddican, Hazel Richards, Paul Foulkes and Vincent Hughes |
Catherine Travis and Rena Torres Cacoulos |
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7:45 pm – 8:10 pm |
Sara Zahler |
#181 Japanese vowels under change? Terumi Imai |
#158 Subject Pronominal Expression in
Mandarin Xiaoshi Li |
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8:10 pm – 8:35 pm |
#28 Mainland Canadian English phonology in Newfoundland:
Linguistic change reflecting economic change? Matthias Hofmann |
#25 The production and perception of a low
back vowel merger Katie Drager, Rebecca Clifford and Jennifer Hay |
Clia Lopes, Silvia Cavalcante and Leonardo Marcotulio |
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8:35 pm – 10:30 pm |
Graduate Student
Mixer Epicurean |
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Saturday, October 29th
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Paper Session 5 8:50am – 10:30am |
Multiple Variables and Co-variation Chair: Amelia Tseng ICC 101 |
Variation in /l/s and /r/s Chair:
Katherine Hilton ICC 103 |
Panel 6 ICC 105 |
Discourse Variation I Chair: Anna Marie Trester ICC 108 |
Panel 7 ICC 115 |
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8:50 am – 9:15 am |
#226 Exploring
co-variability and salience Jennifer Thorburn |
#54 Following L over hill and dale: Changes in L-vocalization
through space, time, and methods Robin Dodsworth
and Kirk Hazen |
#89 Introducing sociolinguistics in the Portuguese language
syllabus of Brazilian schools Stella Maris Bortoni-Ricardo,
Paula Cobucci and Virgilio Almeida |
Sakiko Kajino and Chie Adachi |
#32 Ethnicity and English in four North American cities Barbara
Johnstone, Charles Boberg, Michol F. Hoffman, James A. Walker and Lauren
Hall-Lew |
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9:15 am – 9:40 am |
#271 Establishing group membership
through recurrence of semantic traits Dayane Almeida |
#100 R-deletion in final coda position: variation and prosodic
structure Dinah Callou and
Carolina Serra |
#20 Uh and um as sociolinguistic markers in American English Gunnel Tottie |
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9:40 am – 10:05 am |
#291 Southern Mountain English as a shaper of identity Bethany Dumas |
Peter Milne |
Michael Shepherd |
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10:05 am – 10:30 am |
#211 You cant come back if you never left Gerard VanHerk and Becky Childs |
#169 A cross-dialectal transatlantic perspective on
non-prevocalic /r/ Caroline Piercy
and David Britain |
#87 Interpreting identity: Productive and perceptual variation
in triadic discourse Stephanie Feyne |
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10:30 am – 11:00am |
Break |
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Paper Session 6 11:00am – 1:05pm |
Variation, Personal and Group Identities Chair: Sarah Benor ICC 101 |
Panel 8 ICC 103 |
Variation in the US Southeast Chair: Morgan Rood ICC 105 |
Sociophonetic Variation I Chair: MaryEllen Garcia ICC 108 |
Panel 9 ICC 115 |
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11:00 am – 11:25 am |
Sonya Fix |
#160 Style and social meaning in micro- and macrosocial contexts Anastasia
Nylund, Sakiko Kajino, Maryam Bakht, Scott Kiesling, Kyuwon Moon, Qing Zhang Discussant:
Natalie Schilling |
#15 The socio-regional distribution of African American vowel
systems in Piedmont, North Carolina Mary Kohn and
Charlie Farrington |
#7 A new look at the
aspiration and vowel formants: Corpus of Caracas Olga Scrivner |
#195 Sociolinguistics in the schools: The next forty years of
service in return Mary Bucholtz,
Julie Sweetland, Christine Mallinson, Anne Harper Charity Hudley, Audrey
Lopez, Alina Mojarro, Elena Skapoulli, Christopher VanderStouwe, Shawn
Warner-Garcia |
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11:25 am – 11:50 am |
#201 Second dialects and
shifting linguistic identities: British women in the United States Alison Mackey,
Anna Marie Trester, Sheena Shah and Kaitlyn M. Tagarelli |
#83 Fine in the world: Constructing a Lumbee English DDM Sara Miller
Newman, Hayley Heaton and Channing Johnson |
#52 What is behind syllable
timing in Multicultural London English? Eivind Torgersen and Anita Szakay |
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11:50 am – 12:15 pm |
#124 Negotiating different
Latin@ linguistic identities Michelle Ramos-Pellicia |
#57 A rapidly reconfigured variable: Quotatives in Appalachia Kirk Hazen |
#13 Stylistic activation in
ethnolinguistic repertoires Devyani Sharma |
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12:15 pm – 12:40 pm |
Julia McKinney |
Rachael
Allbritten |
#190 Of categories and continua - discrete and gradient
properties of sociophonetic variation Daniel Erker |
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12:40 pm – 1:05 pm |
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#287 When did Southern American English really begin?: Testing Baileys hypothesis Michael
Montgomery, Brandon Cooper and Michael Ellis |
Anita Szakay,
Molly Babel and Jeanette King |
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Sunday, October 30th
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Paper Session 8 8:50am – 10:30am |
Sociophonetic Variation II Chair: Cala Zubair ICC 101 |
Syntactic Variation Chair: Alexandra DArcy ICC 103 |
Perception and Social Meaning I Chair: Patrick Callier ICC 105 |
Rethinking Localness Chair: Sinae Lee ICC 108 |
Panel 10-I ICC 115 |
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8:50 am – 9:15 am |
#256 French liaison and [t d] affrication in Laurentian French Marie-Hlne Ct |
#21 Effects on the particle verb alternation
across English dialects Bill Haddican and Daniel Ezra Johnson |
#251 On the interaction of variation and
exceptionality in Modern Hebrew spirantization Michal Temkin Martinez |
#129 Language and place: Social perception of
regional American English Katie Carmichael |
#220 New perspectives on vowel shifting I David Durian, Matthew J. Gordon, Valerie Fridland, Tyler Kendall,
Matthew Hunt Gardner, Becky Childs, Rebecca Roeder |
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9:15 am – 9:40 am |
#267 Stancetaking and vowel quality in bilingual speakers Rebecca Damari |
#204 Off base: Changing acceptability in
contemporary American English Rika Ito, Tanya Bovitz and Laura Smith |
#110 Measuring implicit dialect awareness
using the IAT Kathryn Campbell-Kibler |
#62 The impact of higher education on local phonology Hilary Prichard and Meredith Tamminga |
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9:40 am – 10:05 am |
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John R. Rickford |
#39 A study of the perception of four linguistic variables and
their relationship to military speech Joelle Kirtley |
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10:05 am – 10:30 am |
Ongoing change of a syntactic variation:
Nominative/genitive alternation in Japanese |
#103 Methodological issues in speech
perception elicitation Barbara Soukup |
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10:30 am – 11:00am |
Break |
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Paper Session 9 11:00am – 1:05pm |
Discourse Variation II Chair: Michelle Vanni ICC 101 |
Perception and Social Meaning II Chair: Scott Kiesling ICC 103 |
Mediated Variation and Style Chair: Maryam Bakht ICC 105 |
Language in the Classroom Sponsored
by the Georgetown University Center for Language Education and Development Chair: Rafael Orozco ICC 108 |
Panel 10-II ICC 115 |
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11:00 am – 11:25 am |
#198 Talking business, taking charge: Communicative and
interactional norms in the MBA classroom Anna Marie Trester and Kathryn McIntyre |
Lauren Squires |
#203 Channel of communication and lexical frequency
in English adjective gradation Nathan LaFave and Gregory Guy |
Kristen Kennedy Terry |
#220 New perspectives on Vowel Shifting II Aaron Dinkin, Patricia Donegan, David Durian, Brian Joseph, Josef
Fruehwald |
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11:25 am – 11:50 am |
#135 I mean, hes like really into me: Using like to minimize face threatening acts Katherine Hilton |
Marcos Rohena-Madrazo |
#262 Affective patterns using words and
emoticons in Twitter Tyler Schnoebelen |
Corinne Seals |
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11:50 am – 12:15 pm |
#240 The negotiation and appropriation of a contested label:
New ways of analyzing "family" Sarah Wagner |
#163 Perception in interlanguage phonology: A
variationist perspective Walcir Cardoso |
#252 The stylistic covariates of DH-stopping
on Twitter Patrick Callier |
#8 Teacher acquisition of and reflections on urban students
dialects Jill Hallett |
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12:15 pm – 12:40 pm |
#179 A discursive approach to linguistic style and the
construction of an expert identity Sara Lide |
#118 "The people who say tsh tsh": Listeners' social judgments of Cairene Arabic
strong palatalization Katherine Geenberg |
#212 Coronal stop deletion on reality TV Morgan Sonderegger, Andrea Beltrama, Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Erin
Franklin, Brett Kirken, Jackson Lee, Maria Nelson, Krista Nicoletto, Talia
Penslar, Hannah Provenza, Natalie Rothfels, Maximilian Bane, Peter Graff and
Jason Riggle |
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12:40 pm – 1:05 pm |
#46 A really interesting story: The influence of
narrative in linguistic change LeAnn Brown and Sali Tagliamonte |
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#33 That straight talk: demonstratives,
solidarity, Eric Acton and Christopher Potts |
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