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Events for NWAV 34 take place on and around NYU’s Washington Square campus. The key below provides the names and addressed of the building abbreviations used in the schedule. Please note that because of security reasons, an NWAV participant badge (available at registration) is required for entry into all NWAV events and NYU buildings.

  • Artists Space – 38 Greene Street (between Broome and Grand Streets), 3rd Floor
  • Kimmel – Kimmel Center for University Life (60 Washington Square South); NWAV events in Kimmel take place on the 4th and 9th floors
  • Lipton Hall – New York University School of Law D’Agostino Hall (108 West Third Street)
  • Silver – Silver Center (100 Washington Square East); NWAV events in the Silverver Center take place on the 8th floor

THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER 2005

11a-7p

Registration (Kimmel Ground Floor Lobby)

Workshops and Walking Tours

12-1.50p

Forensic Phonetics and Sociolinguistics
(Kimmel 905)

Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Paul Foulkes & Reva Schwartz

VARBRUL:Bring Your Own Data
(Kimmel 907)

Gregory Guy

Small Claims Court as a Fieldsite
(Kimmel 909)

Philipp Angermeyer & Bambi Schieffelin

Lower East Side Walking Tour
(Kimmel Lobby)
FULL

John Singler

Jackson Heights Walking Tour
(Kimmel Lobby)

Rudi Gaudio

2-3.50p

Best Practices in Sociophonetics
(Kimmel 905)
FULL

Marianna Di Paolo, Malcah Yaeger-Dror & Paul Foulkes

Dialogues on Optionality
(Kimmel 907)

Chris Collins, Anthony Kroch & Rafaella Zannuttini

Making Your Work Relevant
(Kimmel 909)

Walt Wolfram & John Baugh

Lower East Side Walking Tour
(Kimmel Lobby)
FULL

John Singler

BREAK 4.00-7.30

7.30p

OPENING NIGHT PLENARY

Eisner & Lubin Auditorium (Kimmel 401)

Pursuing Language Change from the Local to the Global

Barbara Horvath (Linguistics, University of Sydney)
Ron Horvath (Geography, University of Sydney)

8.30p

OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION

Kimmel 405 & 406

Hosted by Cambridge University Press in honor of
Language in Society



FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 2005

8a-6p

Registration (Silver Eighth Floor Elevator Lobby)

8.30a

Breakfast (Silver 802 & 804)

9a-6p

Book Display (Silver 810)

 

Session 1A (Silver 805)

Frequency and Function

Session 1B (Silver 806)

Ethnolects and Identity

Session 1C (Silver 808)

Morphosyntactic Variation

Session 1D (Silver 809)

Ideologies of Contact

9.00a

Variation in Sign Languages: Reexamining the Role of the Phonological Environment

Robert Bayley & Ceil Lucas

Doing being Chinese: The performance of identity in the sociolinguistic interview

Ashley Williams

Tense variation in Spanish Oral Narratives of Puerto Ricans in New York City

Nydia Flores-Ferrán

Representations of Hindi in the Dalit Resistance Movement

Sai Samant & Rizwan Ahmad

9.25a

Frequency and the spreading of sociolinguistic variation: A usage-based study of the pluralization of haber in Spanish

Manuel Díaz-Campos, Eric Chappetto, Catalina Mendez & Erin McNulty

Style and Language Contact Through Popular Culture: The Case of Grime

Nikki Seifert & Eric McCready

Messy habits: The variable expression of habitual aspect in Quebec English

Gerard Van Herk

Codeswitching and indexicality: Chinese migrants’ mediation of language ideologies and bilingual resources in Singapore

Er-Xin Lee

9.50a

Listeners´sensitivity to the frequency of sociolinguistic variables

William Labov, Sharon Ash, Maciej Baranowski, Maya Ravindranath & Tracy Weldon

Performing as we speak: a case study of Anika Moa

Donna Starks & Anna Coddington

Comparing Rates and Constraints in Present Perfect / Preterit Variation in Spanish

Scott Schwenter & Rena Torres Cacoullos

Becoming Francophone; Becoming French?: The Jews of Tunis between the Wars

Keith Walters

10.15a

A usage-based approach to hiatus resolution in Spanish

Matthew Alba

Constructing Korean American femininity through an AAVE-influenced youth style

Elaine Chun

The quest for angloversals and vernacular universals in varieties of English worldwide

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi & Bernd Kortmann

Chicano English in Michigan

Rebecca Roeder

COFFEE BREAK 10.40 – 11.00

 

Session 2A (Silver 805)

Grammatical Constraints on Variation

Session 2B (Silver 806)

Discursive Constructions of Identity

Session 2C (Silver 808)

Modeling SociolinguisticProcesses

Session 2D (Silver 809)

Variation in Childhood and Adolescence

11.00a

The Persistence of Grammatical Constraints: “Urban sojourners” from Bequia

Miriam Meyerhoff & James Walker

The construction of group identity in apologies for a political event

Mai Kuha & Elizabeth Riddle

Internal variation + external contact = change? On the loss of initial consonant clusters in Early Middle English

Daniel Schreier

Beyond purple Tellytubbies:  The emergence of variation in toddlers

Julie Roberts

11.25a

Testing Hypotheses about Steps in Grammatical Turnover/Shift

Carol Myers-Scotton

"Help Me, I am a Stepmother!": Self- and Other-Positioning in the Internet Help-Sites Discourse

Mirjana Dediac

Diglossia, code-switching, style-shifting: A field theory of variety alternation

Gregory Guy & Laureen Lim

"Mam, ma trousers is fa'in doon!" Morphosyntax vs. phonology in the acquisition of variation

Jennifer Smith, Mercedes Durham, Liane Fortune & Hazel Steele

11.50a

Constraints on Intra-Sentential Codeswitching in Gibraltar

Carmen Ruiz-Sanchez

Where I’m Coming From: The Co-Construction of Racial and Gender Identity in the Talk of Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease

Charlene Pope

The move to the city and the quantity and quality of Maori vowels

Margaret Maclagan, Ray Harlow, Jeanette King, Catherine Watson & Peter Keegan

Features of AAVE as Features of PRE: A Study of Adolescents in Philadelphia

Tonya Wolford & Keelan Evans

12.15p

A contact phenomenon at the syntax-pragmatics interface: Word order in bilingual Spanish

Emily Hinch

How to Speak Like a Pittsburgher: Folk Lexicography and the Discursive Construction of Dialect and Place

Barbara Johnstone

Endogenous linguistic change in inner-London teenage speech as the generator of vowel innovations: Implications for models of innovation, levelling and diffusion

Paul Kerswill, Eivind Torgersen, Sue Fox & Jenny Cheshire

Growing up and apart: Gender divergences in two Chicagoland elementary schools

Richard Cameron

LUNCH BREAK 12.40 – 2.00

 

Session 3A (Silver 805)

Linguistic Marketplaces

Session 3B (Silver 806)

Constraints on Variation

Session 3C (Silver 808)

Variation and Creoles

 

2.00p

Standardization and Suburbanization: Modernity and language change in Basque

Bill Haddican

That-Omission Beyond Processing: Stylistic and Social Effects

Laura Staum & Florian Jaeger

Language Shift in Early Twentieth-Century Hawaii: Evidence from a Corpus of Life Histories

Sarah Roberts

 

2.25p

The Role of Ideology in Semantic Change

Andrew Wong

Individual and Community Grammars : Gliding across French Dialects

David Heap & Stephanie Kelly

Layers of Borrowing in a Multilingual Society:  Transfer and Calquing as Changes From Above in Papiamentu Passive Constructions

Tara Sanchez

 

2.50p

The fragmentation of the “proletarian revolutionary family”: Use of address terms in contemporary urban China

Qing Zhang

Effects from prosody on three dialect features of a variety of English spoken on the Iron Range of Northern Minnesota

Matt Bauer

Creoles and the city: Testing sociolinguistic concepts in a creole urban environment

Stephanie Hackert

 

3.15p

“I’m like: ‘I know, I do the same thing’”:  Can minority speakers catch up with the Joneses?

Nathalie Dion & Shana Poplack

NAME dropping: Location variation in Australian Sign Language

Adam Schembri, Trevor Johnston & Della Goswell

Copula absence in Hawai‘i Creole: Social and linguistic constraints of variation

Aya Inoue

 

COFFEE BREAK 3.40 – 4.00

 

Session 4A (Silver 805)

Contact in the City

Session 4B (Silver 806)

Perspectives on AAE

Session 4C (Silver 808)

Contact Phonology

 

4.00p

Pre-Lateral Laxing and Light (l) in New York Latino English

Peter Slomanson & Michael Newman

Autonomy and Locally Defined Social Variation: African American English in Princeville, NC

Ryan Rowe & Kristy D’Andrea

Intervocalic V/d/V variation in Palenquero Spanish

Thomas Morton

 

4.25p

Kinoki: Redefining Nairobi’s Street Life

Mungai Mutonya

“Yo mein rap is phat wie dein mama”: African American Language in Online German Hiphop

Elaine Richardson

The cot/caught Merger in Suburban Atlanta as a Case of Phonological Leveling

Bridget Anderson

 

4.50p

Dialects and identities in Casablanca, Morocco:  The case of Fessi migrants

Atiqa Hachimi

‘It’s good things and bad things to both systems’: AAVE morphosyntactic features and educational evaluation

Dennis Preston & Dan Flynn

Phonological convergence and divergence within the same British city

Kevin Watson

 

5.15p

The emergence of ethnolects in Dutch cities: Between second language acquisition and dialectology

Wouter Kusters & Esther Van Kieken

Sociolinguistic Myths in the Study of African American English

Walt Wolfram

Canadian features in the structural phonology of Newfoundland English

Charles Boberg

 

POSTER SESSION

5.45p

Perceptual Similarity of Regional Varieties of American English

Cynthia Clopper, Susannah Levi & David Pisoni

A Tale of Two Accents: A Comparison of Folk Linguistic Perceptions of American Southern English and Saxon German

Keith Kennetz & Christina Anders

“Good morning” in suit and tie versus “Hello” in shorts with piercing: A sociolinguistic study of formalities in Hungarian

Erika Sólyom

Learning to talk native: Listeners’ perception of speech from three dialect areas

Katherine Sadis & Julie Roberts

Near-merger revisited: ferry and furry in Philadelphia

Lukasz Abramowicz, Damien Hall & Maya Ravindranath

Urban Migration, Social Mobility and Phonetic Shift: A Longitudinal Study

Paul De Decker

The Production and Perception of Dental versus Retroflex Sibilants in the Songyuan Dialect of Northeastern Mandarin Chinese

Fangfang Li

Urban Interactions and the Spread of Written Standards

Bruce Spencer

Some Alternative Hypotheses for the Emergence of Monophthongal /ai/

Guy Bailey, Jan Tillery & Claire Andres

Segment length as a sociolinguistic variable in Palestinian Arabic

Uri Horesh

I think 'that' is deleted in Montreal

Naomi Nagy & Hélène Blondeau

Negative prestige and sound change: a sociolinguistic study of the assibilation of /R/ in Brazilian Portuguese

Michael Taylor & David Eddington

Semantics meets sociolinguistics: A new way of approaching meaning variation

Justyna Blazowska

Immigrant language and Second Language Acquisition

J. Clancy Clements

Clustering dialects automatically –a Mutual Information approach

Naomi Nagy, Xiaoli Zhang, George Nagy, Edgar W. Schneider

The influence of Common Czech on the speech of Moravian students: Sociolinguistic factors on second-dialect acquisition

James Wilson

Variation in the Scottish Gaelic nasal mutation: Evidence from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland

Anna Bosch & Jim Scobbie

The low-back merger in Indianapolis English

Deena Fogle

Social Constraints on the Expression of Futurity in Spanish-Speaking Urban Communities

Rafael Orozco

The Low Back Vowel Distinction in New York City English

Amy Wong, Kara Becker, Jocelyn Doxsey & Marcos Rohena-Madrazo

Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California

Mary Bucholtz, Nancy Bermudez, Lisa Edwards, Victor Fung & Rosalva Vargas

The Urban/Rural Speech Divide in Missouri

Matthew Gordon

Windsor French and the phonologie du français contemporain project

François Poiré & Stephaine Kelly

What does it mean for a feature to sound local, and what do local-sounding features accomplish?: Local orientation and local-sounding speech in Pittsburgh

Scott Kiesling, Jennifer Andrus, Neeta Bhasin & Barbara Johnstone

Sociolinguistic Efficiency: Resumptive Pronouns in Peruvian Spanish

Alvaro Cerron-Palomino

Loan word frequency and phonological incorporation as markers of dialect differentiation

Steven Hartman Keiser

Solving the puzzle of ‘r’ among first generation speakers in Lorain Puerto Rican Spanish

Michelle Ramos-Pellicia

Stylistic variation among four generations of Cajun French speakers

Sylvie Dubois & Carole Salmon

On the development of an open archive for language variation

Bill Rivers, David Harrison, Richard Brecht & Bernard Spolsky

 

 

 

VARBRUL Presentation: Goldvarb for OS X (The Variable Rule Program Updated)

David Sankoff, Sali Tagliamonte & Eric Smith

BOOK LAUNCH

Sponsored by Mouton de Gruyter in honor of

Atlas of North American English

William Labov, Sharon Ash & Charles Boberg



SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER 2005

8a-6p

Registration (Silver Eighth Floor Elevator Lobby)

8.30a

Breakfast (Silver 802 & 804)

9a-6p

Book Display (Silver 810)

 

Session 5A (Silver 805)

Social Theory and Variation

Session 5B (Silver 806)

Dialect Retention/Dialect Change

Session 5C (Silver 808)

Changes in Progress

Session 5D (Silver 809)

Contact and Variation in AAE

9.00a

Linguistic Variation and Social Status in Old Age

Mary Rose

Changes in the pronominal system in Brazilian Portuguese: the case of the third person

Mary Kato & Eugenia Duarte

Is the extension of estar a change in progress or a stable change: A combined analysis of sociolinguistic and discourse factors in Spanish

Manuel Díaz-Campos & Kimberly Geesin

Reconsidering Negative Inversion in African American English and Southern White English

Jessica White

9.25a

Applying social theory to linguistic variation: The case of sociological consciousness

Robin Dodsworth

Transplanted dialects and language change: question formation in Québec

Martin Elsig & Shana Poplack

Evolution and Divergence in Romance: The "passado composto" in Portuguese

Ronald Mendes

Real-time Changes in Social Stratification: Status and Gender in the Trajectories of Change for AAE Variables

Jennifer Nguyen

9.50a

Whose Northern California Vowel Shift?

Penelope Eckert, Rebecca Regos & Micha Rinkus

Appalachian English in Southern Indiana?  The Evidence from Verbal -s

Brian José

Tracking the Northern Cities Shift in Chicago: A Look at Age and Gender

Corrine McCarthy

Transitional Dialect Zones in Post-Insular Ethnolinguistic Configuration: The Case of Bertie County

Angus Bowers

10.15a

Trajectories of Linguistic Change in Communities of Practice:  Reconfiguration and Dissolution

Christine Mallinson & Becky Childs

Null Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese: a variant for non-referential subjects

Luciana Cunha-Muniz

Lower, fronter, (and shorter): The trajectory of /aw/ and /ow/ in Columbus, OH

David Durian & Andrew Smith

African American English in the Twin Cities, Phase Two

Bartlomiej Plichta

COFFEE BREAK 10.40 – 11.00

 

Session 6A (Silver 805)

Variation: Explanations in Syntax

Session 6B (Silver 806)

Contact and Dialect Acquisition

Session 6C (Silver 808)

Footings, Frames & Stances

Session 6D (Silver 809)

Changes in Time

11.00a

Beyond You and I: Distributed Morphological Mechanisms of Pronoun Variation

Jeffrey Parrott

Variable perception in interlanguage phonology: codas in Brazilian Portuguese English

Walcir Cardoso & Paul John

Explaining phonological variation and change in an urban vernacular: does television play a role?

Jane Stuart-Smith, Claire Timmins & Gwylim Price

Where is vas going in Ontario French?

Raymond Mougeon, Terry Nadasdi & Katherine Rehner

11.25a

From VS to SV order with unaccusative verbs in Brazilian Portuguese

Eugenia Duarte & Humberto Soares

Acquisition of the Chinese Morphosyntactic Particle  de (?) by English Speakers

Xiaoshi Li

Problematizing the panel study: The role of contextual factors in shaping real-time data in Smith Island, MD

Jennifer McFadden & Natalie Schilling-Estes

Dialect Shifts in Rural Middle Georgia

Megan Melancon & Katherine Wise

11.50a

Preposition Stranding and the Noun-Compounding Parameter

Lewis Gebhardt

Differential Vowel Accomodation among Two Native American Groups

Elizabeth Coggshall

Style shifting as a stance-based phenomenon: A conversational case study

Scott Kiesling

A study about nothing: Null subjects as a diagnostic of convergence between English and French

Martine Leroux & Lidia Jarmasz

12.15p

Evaluating the role of verb type in subject/verb agreement in Brazilian Portuguese

Maria Scherre, Anthony Naro & Caroline Cardoso

A non target-like feature, its acquisition and the emergence of an ethnolect: the loss of grammatical gender

Leonie Cornips & Aafke Hulk

Linguistic Security in the Urban South

Susan Tamasi

Of "moice" and men: The evolution of a male-led sound change

Jeff Conn

LUNCH BREAK 12.40 – 2.00

 

Session 7A (Silver 805)

Cultural Belonging

Session 7B (Silver 806)

AAVE Through Time (Sponsored by ADS)

Session 7C (Silver 808)

Social Evaluations of Features

Session 7D (Silver 809)

Phonetics of Local Identity

2.00p

El ticket or la boleta? Lexical variation and contested linguistic boundaries in interpreter-mediated interaction

Philipp Angermeyer

AAVE Existential Variation and Change in Apparent Time: A Preliminary Investigation in Washington, DC

Jennifer Sclafani

Linguistic insecurity in discourse: Korean attitudes towards styles of English

Joseph Park

Change and overlap in /ay/ and /oy/ among Barbadians in Southeast England

Michelle Straw & Peter Patrick

2.25p

Ethnolinguistic identity and Spanish dialect features among MexiRicans in Chicago

Kim Potowski & Janine Matts

Discourse strategies in the social construction of a rural African American community

Patricia Cukor-Avila & Sonja Widman

Attitudes towards new ways of reporting and intensifying: All

Isabelle Buchstaller & Michael Deeringer

Low central vowel fronting in Cardiff English

Betsy Evans

2.50p

When your mother tongue is not your mother's tongue:  Linguistic reflexes of Sui exogamy

James Stanford

Real-time Evidence for the Early Stages of Phonetic Change:  A Look at Detroit AAE Glottalization of /d/ in the 1960s

Jennifer Nguyen & Bridget Andersen

Variation and the Listener: The contextual meanings of (ING)

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler

Regional Identity and /ai/ Monophthongization in the Gateway to the American South

Daniel Miller

3.15p

Russian Immigrants in Philadelphia as English Speakers and Philadelphians

Michael Friesner & Aaron Dinkin

Against consensus: Challenging the contentions of the New Anglicists and divergencists concerning the development of AAVE

John Rickford

Southern or rural?  The social perception of intraregional vowel distinctions

Valerie Fridland & Kathy Bartlett

Intonational Variation and Social Meaning: Categorical and Phonetic Aspects

Robert Podesva

COFFEE BREAK 3.40 – 4.00

 

Session 8A (Silver 805)

Ethnolects and Identity

Session 8B (Silver 806)

Sociolinguistic Methods

Session 8C (Silver 808)

Future Marking

Session 8D (Silver 809)

Discourse Markers

4.00p

Ethnolects and the city: Language and identity in Toronto

Michol Hoffman & James Walker

Fostering Teacher Change: Considerations in Influencing Teachers’ Language-Related Attitudes and Practices

Julie Sweetland

Age grading in the future

Gillian Sankoff & Suzanne Evans Wagner

From English morpheme to symbol of Chinese netizenship: Exploring -ing in Chinese blogs

Jia Lou

4.25p

The Whitey Voice: Linguistic variation, agency, and the discursive construction of Whiteness in a Black American barbershop

H. Samy Alim

Coping with Variability in Judgments

Ralph Fasold

On future constructions in Brazilian Portuguese

Dinah Callou

The Discourse Marker Mais Dame:  Past and Present Functions

Gary Butler & Ruth King

4.50p

"Oh, we're not making fun of you": An investigation of stylization and ideologies in Italian-English bilingual family interaction

Lisa Del Torto

An Interactive Web-Based Application for Vowel Plotting

Terry Irons & Scott Murphy

Future markers will, gonna and gon in Detroit AAVE:  comparison with Urban Guyanese Creole

Walter Edwards

OMG, its so PC! Instant Messaging and Teen Language

Sali Tagliamonte & Derek Denis

5.15p

When I came here, it was like, "You’re white."  I was like, "I am?": hip hop and the resistance to whiteness among immigrant youth in NYC

Cece Cutler

Analysis of Urban Interview Data as a Corpus

William Kretzschmar & Betsy Barry

Will we share THE FUTURE: Grammaticization of ‘going to’, a Persian perspective

Reza Ghafar Samar

Intensive and Quotative ALL:  Something old, something new

The Stanford ALL Project

DINNER BREAK 5.45-7.30

7.30p

INVITED PANEL

Eisner & Lubin Auditorium (Kimmel 401)

Language and the City

Anne Charity (Linguistics, The College of William and Mary)
Harvey Molotch (Sociology and Metropolitan Studies, New York University)
Pedro Noguera (Teaching and Learning, New York University)
Lok Siu (Anthropology and Asian/Pacific/American Studies, New York University)

9.00p

NWAV PARTY

Artists Space (38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor)



SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 2005

8.30a

BREAKFAST WITH BILL (Silver 802 & 804)

9a-1.30p

Book Display (Silver 810)

 

Panel 1 (Silver 805)

Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS)

Panel 2 (Silver 806)

Emigrants and Exiles in the Old and New World: The Sociolinguistic Impact of Irish Migration and Settlement

Panel 3 (Silver 808)

New Ways of Analyzing Intonation

Panel 4 (Silver 809)

Styling the City: Variation and Change in the Linguistic Construction of Urban Identities

9.30a – 11.10a

English or Spanish?! Language Accommodation in Urban Service Encounters

Laura Callahan

Migration to the Old World: The Sociolinguistic Impact of Irish Famine settlements in Newcastle and Sheffield

Joan Beal and Karen Corrigan

Tracking language change in the intonation patterns of Turkish-German bilinguals in Germany

Robin Queen

Slang in the City: Linguistic Difference and Social Distance in Rio de Janeiro

Jennifer Roth-Gordon

The Role of Morphological Ambiguity as a Constraint on Subject Pronoun Expression in the Spanish of New York City

Daniel Erker & Ricardo Otheguy

The Irish-English Perfect in an Overseas Enclave Variety

Sandra Clarke

Intonational Distinctiveness of African American English

Jennifer Cole, Erik Thomas, Erica Britt & Elizabeth Coggshall

Gentrification, Politics and Semantic Shift: Variation and Change in the Meanings of Diversity

Gabriella Modan

Attributing Linguistic Features in Middlesbrough English to Irish Immigration

Barbara Fennell & Carmen Llamas

Syntax and Reading in the Bilingual Child

Gita Martohardjono

Out of Ireland: Second-Person-Plural Pronouns in American English

Michael Montgomery

Sociolinguistic variation in prosodic parameters: cognition and interaction

Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Tania Granadillo & Shoji Takano

Speaking of sex in the postcolonial city:  English loanwords in the discourse of Nigerian Hausa "homos"

Rudolf Gaudio

Initial stages and apparent changes in the variable use of subject personal pronouns in Spanish in New York

Ricardo Otheguy & Daniel Erker

Finding a Network in Seattle: Variability in Immigrant Phonology and the Ubiquity of Weak Network Ties

Alicia Beckford Wassink

Perception of non-standard prosodic features in French via resynthesis in PRAAT: preliminary findings

Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Christopher Stewart, & Peter Golato

Contesting `street language`: Language practices and ideologies in Dutch youth subcultures

Vincent de Rooij

COFFEE BREAK 11.10 – 11.30

 

Session 9A (Silver 805)

Listener Perceptions of Difference

Session 9B (Silver 806)

Local Identity Making

Session 9C (Silver 808)

Language and Prestige

Session 9D (Silver 809)

Intersubjective Approaches to Identity

11.30a

Ethnolectal diagnostics: how to find linguistic indicators of ethnic identity

Wolfgang Wölck

From conservative to radical: Sound change in the upper class of Charleston, South Carolina

Maciej Baranowski

Ongoing change and vernacular stability: The case of variable HAVE (GOT)

Bridget Jankowski, Alex D’Arcy & Sali Tagliamonte

Extenders, intersubjectivity, and the social construction of dementia

Margaret Maclagan, Boyd Davis & Gina Tillard

11.55a

Regional differences in perceiving vowel tokens on Southerness, education and pleasantness ratings

Valerie Fridland, Kathy Bartlett & Wayne Mackey

Syntactic variation and lifestyle in contemporary Iran

Aria Adli

Boricua identities and the sociolinguistic distribution of liquid variables in Puerto Rican Spanish

Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez

Change of Tôhoku Dialect Spoken in Hawai‘i

Mie Hiramoto

12.20a

Effects of social information on nonnative speakers’ perception of English

Guiling Hu

Managing identities through impoliteness

Holly Cashman

Verbal agreement in spoken Brazilian Portuguese: social practice and discourse representations

Ana Zilles

Does it sound like a man or a woman?: A case study of gender performance and prosody in Japanese sentence-final particles

Yumiko Enyo

12.25p

Dialect Identification of World Englishes

Lyndsey Nay & Wendy Baker

From “banana” to local: stereotypes and bilingual identities in Hong Kong

Katherine Chen

An Experimental Evaluation of a Possible Mechanism for Back Vowel Merger

Terry Irons

Independent Variation in Dialect Alignment: An Intra-generational Study of Roanoke Island Speakers

Jeannine Carpenter & Janelle Vadnais