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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2007 | ||||
11 am-6 pm |
REGISTRATION (Jon M Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut St., Walnut St. entrance) | |||
6 pm-7 pm |
REGISTRATION (JMHH Locust Walk entrance) | |||
11:45 am-6:15 pm |
WORKSHOPS |
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11:45 am-1:45 pm |
The Analysis of Vowel Systems with Plotnik 09 [description]
(Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, 3401 Walnut St., room #470) William Labov, University of Pennsylvania |
Finding a needle in a haystack: Using annotated corpora for linguistic research [description]
(Goldstein Electronic Classroom, Van Pelt Library) Anthony Kroch & Beatrice Santorini, University of Pennsylvania |
New Ways of Analyzing Verbal Aspect [description]
(Linguistics Laboratory, 3700 Market St., Suite 300) James Walker, York University |
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2 pm-4 pm |
Morphosyntactic variation: Theory and methods [description]
(Linguistics Laboratory, 3700 Market St., Suite 300) Jeffrey Parrott, University of Cyprus and Lukasz Abramowicz, University of Pennsylvania |
Linguistic profiling and ear-witness testimony: Empirical and experimental insights [description]
(Linguistic Data Consortium, 3600 Market St., Suite 810) John Baugh, Washington University in St. Louis |
Toward best practices in sociophonetics [description]
(Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, 3401 Walnut St., room #470) Marianna Di Paolo, University of Utah Malcah Yaeger-Dror, University of Arizona |
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4:15 pm-6:15 pm |
Operationalizing linguistic gratuity: From principles to programs [description]
(Linguistic Data Consortium, 3600 Market St., Suite 810) Walt Wolfram, Jeffrey Reaser, and Charlotte Vaughn North Carolina State University |
Variation in sign languages: Methodological and analytical issues [description]
(Linguistics Laboratory, 3700 Market St., Suite 300) Ceil Lucas, Gallaudet University, Bob Bayley, University of California at Davis and Joseph Hill, Gallaudet University |
Two things sociolinguists should know: Software packages for vowel normalization, and accessing linguistic atlas data [description]
(Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, 3401 Walnut St., room #470) Erik Thomas, North Carolina State University, Tyler Kendall, North Carolina State University and Malcah Yaeger-Dror, University of Arizona |
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7:30 pm |
PLENARY ADDRESS: Stability and change over four and a half centuries of real time (JMHH Colloquium Hall, 8th floor)
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9:00 pm |
RECEPTION (JMHH East Hall, 8th floor)
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2007 | ||||
8:15 am-6 pm |
REGISTRATION (JMHH Locust Walk entrance) | |||
8:30-9:30 am |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (JMHH MBA Cafe) | |||
9 am-6 pm |
BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH 250) | |||
SESSION A1 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION B1 (JMHH 255) |
SESSION C1 (JMHH 260) | ||
Phonetic variation in South America
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Negation
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Age-related patterns
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9:00 am |
Sociolinguistic correlates and phonetic characteristics of unstressed vowel reduction in Cusco, Peru [abstract]
Ann Marie Delforge |
Ne-deletion in Picard and in regional French: Evidence for distinct grammars [abstract]
Julie Auger & Anne-José Villeneuve |
New ways of analyzing African American English: Examining the speech of adolescent girls in Washington, DC [abstract]
Tyler Kendall, Christine Mallinson & Kaye Whitehead | |
9:25 am |
Diph-, monoph-, and other thongs from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [abstract]
Michael Colley |
Pas vs. Point: Variation in Baie Sainte-Marie Acadian French [abstract]
Philip Comeau |
Patterns of age-based linguistic variation in American English [abstract]
Federica Barbieri | |
9:50 am |
The palatalization of dental stops in Brazilian Portuguese and social networks [abstract]
Elisa Battisti, Adalberto Ayjara Dornelles Filho, João Ignacio Pires Lucas & Nínive Magdiel Peter Bovo |
Divn't say dinnae or Dinnae say divn't?: A qualitative-quantitative approach to verbal negation in the far north of England [abstract]
Heike Pichler |
To peak or not to peak: Exploring the incremention of linguistic change [abstract]
Sali Tagliamonte & Alexandra D'Arcy | |
10:15 am |
The role of lexical frequency and phonetic context in the weakening of syllable-final lexical /s/ in the Spanish of Barranquilla, Colombia [abstract]
Richard J. File-Muriel |
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Like Cajun mother, like Cajun daughter: Knowing when to change [abstract]
Carole Salmon & Sylvie Dubois | |
10:40 am |
BREAK | |||
SESSION A2 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION B2 (JMHH 255) |
SESSION C2 (JMHH 260) | ||
Variation in L2
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Quotatives
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Real and apparent time
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11:00 am |
"Identity [iz] a d[i]fficult question": A variationist analysis of relationship between L1 features [abstract]
Natalia Jacobsen |
Linguistic mythbusting: The role of the media in diffusing change [abstract]
Nathalie Dion & Shana Poplack |
'Short-term real time' study of change: A heterogeneous picture [abstract]
Maria Eugenia Lamoglia Duarte & Maria da Conceição A. de Paiva | |
11:25 am |
Think or sink: Chinese learners' acquisition of English voiceless interdental fricative [abstract]
D. Victoria Rau, Hui-Huan Ann Chang & Elaine E. Tarone |
Localized globalization: A multi-local, multivariate investigation of quotative be like [abstract]
Isabelle Buchstaller & Alexandra D'Arcy |
Acquisition of prestige forms: The changing role of gender and education [abstract]
Anthony Julius Naro & Maria Marta Pereira Scherre | |
11:50 am |
A multidimensional investigation of the acquisition of sC onset clusters in second language phonology: A variationist approach [abstract]
Walcir Cardoso, Leif French & Paul John |
This is me/this is him: The quotative system of London adolescents [abstract]
Jenny Cheshire & Sue Fox |
Linguistic parallelism: A real-time study [abstract]
Maria Marta Pereira Scherre & Anthony Julius Naro |
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12:15 pm |
Expressing tense and aspect: The case of adult Chinese-Spanish bilinguals in Ecuador [abstract]
Hsiao-Ping Biehl |
Quotative variation in London English: Evidence from preadolescent speakers [abstract]
Stephen Levey |
On the fringes of the Inland North: Aspects of the NCS in real and apparent time [abstract]
Brian José |
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12:40 pm |
LUNCH | |||
SESSION A3 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION B3 (JMHH 255) |
SESSION C3 (JMHH 260) | ||
Appalachian and Southern U.S. English
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Languages in contact and creoles
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Language attitudes and style
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1:45 pm |
The Southern Shift in a marginally Southern dialect [abstract]
Maciej Baranowski |
Contrasting patterns of change in a majority versus minority French-speaking community [abstract]
Raymond Mougeon, Terry Nadasdi & Katherine Rehner |
Operationalizing the measurement of style in language variation [abstract] Jennifer Renn & J. Michael Terry | |
2:10 pm |
Ungliding and the Status of /ay/ in Kentucky English [abstract]
Terry Lynn Irons |
The demographics of Creole formation in Hawaii [abstract]
Sarah J. Roberts |
What did you think she'd say? Expectations and sociolinguistic perception [abstract]
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler | |
2:35 pm |
Do we believe what they perceive? What speech perception reveals about a Southern "unmerger" in progress [abstract]
Chris Koops, Elizabeth Gentry & Andrew Pantos |
Syntactic vs. intonational focus in Papiamentu [abstract]
Tara Sanchez |
The role of dialectal variation in health communication [abstract]
Susan Tamasi | |
3:00 pm |
An empirical view of varieties of English in Appalachia [abstract]
Kirk Hazen & Ashley Wise |
Shedding light on substrate transfer: Comparing linguistic constraints in Vanuatu [abstract]
Miriam Meyerhoff |
Social categories, social practice and linguistic variation in an urban school: Combining variationism, ethnography, and languate attitude research [abstract]
Marie Maegaard | |
3:25 pm |
BREAK | |||
SESSION A4 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION B4 (JMHH 255) |
SESSION C4 (JMHH 260) | ||
Speech perception
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Issues in language contact
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Effects of dialect standardization
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3:45 pm |
Cue switching in the perception of approximants: Evidence from two English dialects [abstract]
Christina Villafaña Dalcher, Mark J. Jones & Rachael-Anne Knight |
When will immersion students sound like native speakers of French? An assessment of the socio-stylistic competence in FSL of former immersion students in university [abstract]
Françoise Mougeon & Katherine Rehner |
The effects of urbanization and social orientation: Locally salient variables as indicators of linguistic change [abstract]
Becky Childs, Gerard Van Herk & Jennifer Thorburn |
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4:10 pm |
Social networks and the perceptual relevance of rhythm in Maori English: A New Zealand case study [abstract]
Anita Szakay |
On était comme, 'We think like may be a COMP too' [abstract]
Hélène Blondeau, Naomi Nagy & Jim Wood |
Good-bye to regional variation? The case of Denmark [abstract]
Tore Kristiansen |
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4:35 pm |
Cross-dialectal perceptual experiences by speech-language pathologists [abstract]
Gregory C. Robinson & Ida J. Stockman |
/u/ fronting and /t/ aspiration in Maori and New Zealand English [abstract]
Margaret Maclagan, Catherine Watson, Ray Harlow, Jeanette King & Peter Keegan |
Mapping attitudes: The role of linguistic experience and ethnic bias towards "Parisian French" [abstract]
Christopher Stewart, Zsuzsanna Fagyal & Peter Golato |
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5:00 |
Cross-dialect word recognition in noise [abstract]
Cynthia Clopper & Janet Pierrehumbert |
Pasifika English in New Zealand [abstract]
Allan Bell & Andy Gibson |
Austrian listeners' perceptions of style-shifting: An experimental approach and socio-phonetic analysis [abstract]
Barbara Soukup & Zhaleh Feizollahi |
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6-8 pm |
POSTER SESSION and RECEPTION (JMHH Colloquium Hall, 8th floor) | |||
Properties of noun phrases in creole languages: a synthetic comparative exposition [abstract]
Listeners' attitudes and sensitivity to function: The case of two LIKEs [abstract]
An obvious surprise: language, gender, and sentence-final particles in Mandarin [abstract]
Variation of classifier in Si-Xien Hakka in Taiwan [abstract]
The Low Back Merger in Miami [abstract]
Variation in Finnish suffixal vowel harmony [abstract]
Patterns of /uw/, /U/, and /ow/ fronting in Reno, Nevada [abstract]
Diachronic changes in the position of frequency adverbials: Linguistic variation in peninsular and Latin American Spanish [abstract]
Vowel dispersion as a determinant of which sex leads a sound change [abstract]
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The variation of stress assignment in Hønefoss Norwegian [abstract]
Comparing Brazilian and European Portuguese: Segmental and prosodic features [abstract]
Discourse variation as a symbolic resource: Globalization, Indian outsourcing firms, and the construction of business identity [abstract]
Periphrastic and morphological future forms in Bogotá Spanish: A preliminary sociolinguistic study of upper class speakers [abstract]
American attitudes toward six varieties of English in the USA and Britain [abstract]
The invisibility of Asian American women: Gender and dialect recognition of Asian American New Yorkers [abstract]
Modelling synchrony and entrainment for sociolinguistic variation [abstract]
Perceived sexual orientation and attitudes toward sounding gay or straight [abstract]
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Mexican-American Chicago English: A case study of four speakers [abstract]
Hannah Pick Uptalk in Southern Ontario English [abstract]
¿Subir o no subir?: A look at clitic climbing in Spanish [abstract]
Be perfect: 'Something that I'm no seen afore' [abstract]
The road less traveled: Indigenous minority languages and variationist sociolinguistics [abstract]
Acquisition of go copula constructions by African American children [abstract]
The Revolutionary we: Discursive variation in Castro's nosotros [abstract]
Modelling simultaneous convergence and divergence of linguistic features between differently-identifying groups in contact [abstract]
Language attitudes and use among Hungarians in North Carolina [abstract]
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2007 | ||||
8:30-9:30 am |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (JMHH MBA Cafe) | |||
8:45 am-6 pm |
REGISTRATION (JMHH Locust Walk entrance) | |||
9 am-6 pm |
BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH 250) | |||
SESSION A5 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B5 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C5 (JMHH 255) | ||
Rhotic and non-rhotic varieties of English
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Null subjects
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Style in the media
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9:00 am |
Second dialect acquisition: The case of /r/ [abstract]
Christine Berger |
The subject position in Brazilian Portuguese: The embedding of a syntactic change [abstract]
Silvia Regina de Oliveira Cavalcante & Maria Eugênia Lamoglia Duarte |
Non-pronominal self-reference and the construction of an alternative Japanese femininity [abstract]
Sakiko Kajino & Robert J. Podesva | |
9:25 am |
Articulatory insights into language variation and change: Preliminary findings from an ultrasound study of derhoticization in Scottish English [abstract]
Eleanor Lawson, Jane Stuart-Smith & James Scobbie |
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something true: What are null subjects in French? [abstract]
Martine Leroux |
"I'd better schedule an MRI": The linguistic construction of 'white' ethnicity [abstract]
Carmen Fought | |
9:50 am |
Linking-r in Eastern Massachusetts and Optimality Theory [abstract]
Ellen Bernard, Curtis Andrus & Arto Anttila |
Variable subject personal pronoun expression: The case of Colombian Costeño Spanish [abstract]
Rafael Orozco & Gregory R. Guy |
Cross-racial African American Vernacular English and white masculinity in Hollywood films [abstract]
Mary Bucholtz | |
10:15 am |
The Return of R [abstract]
Patricia Irwin & Naomi Nagy |
Null subjects in English -- economically motivated? [abstract] Susanne Wagner |
On indeterminacy in the social meaning of variation [abstract]
Robert J. Podesva & Elaine Chun |
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10:40 am |
BREAK | |||
SESSION A6 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B6 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C6 (JMHH 255) | ||
Phonological variation
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Discourse
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Phonology and language contact
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11:00 am |
Phonological variation in American Sign Language: 2 hands or 1? [abstract]
Ceil Lucas, Amber Goeke, Rebecca Briesacher & Robert Bayley |
'Oh my god!': Stereotypical words at the intersection of sound, practice, and social meaning [abstract]
Elaine Chun |
Palatalization, contact and the rise of a new reading style in K'iche' Mayan [abstract]
Sergio Romero | |
11:25 am |
Doing t/d Deletion Singapore Style [abstract]
Laureen Lim |
The role of discourse marker "oh" in interpreting constructed dialogue as identity work [abstract]
Anna Marie Trester |
Selection of interference features in the formation of a new dialect [abstract]
Erik R. Thomas and Erin E. Callahan | |
11:50 am |
Phonological variation in multi-dialectal Italy: Distinguishing /e/ from /ɛ/ [abstract]
Christopher Cieri |
The use of DE (的) in Mandarin Chinese [abstract]
Xiaoshi Li |
The prosodic rhythm of two varieties of native American English [abstract]
Elizabeth L. Coggshall | |
12:15 pm |
The spread of raising: Opacity, lexicalization, and diffusion [abstract]
Josef Fruehwald |
Exploring the discursive context of word-final /t/ and /d/ realizations [abstract]
Bridget Anderson & Daniel Carman |
Ibero-Romance intonation and language contact [abstract]
Miquel Simonet | |
12:40 pm |
LUNCH | |||
12:45 pm |
MEETING for past, present, and potential future hosts of NWAV | |||
SESSION A7 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B7 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C7 (JMHH 255) | ||
The spread of the low back merger
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Case
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Language and dialect shift
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1:45 pm |
Why here? Why now? Sudden merger from gradual demographic change [abstract]
Daniel Johnson |
The s- vs. of-genitive in standard Canadian English: Grammatical change or register change? [abstract]
Bridget Jankowski |
Mid-vowels in Briançon French: Conflict between regional and national norms [abstract]
Anne Violin-Wigent | |
2:10 pm |
Expansion or approximation: The low-back merger in Indianapolis [abstract]
Deena Fogle |
Acquisition of Split-Ergativity in Kurmanji Kurdish: Variability and Language Change [abstract]
Laura Mahalingappa |
Dying a slow death: Tracing the complexities of language use, loss, and persistence in the Spanish of South Texas [abstract]
Tonya E. Wolford & Phillip Carter |
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2:35 pm |
The low-back merger in the Steel City: African American English and Pittsburgh speech [abstract]
Maeve Eberhardt |
Variable propositional objects in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish [abstract]
Assela Reig Alamillo |
The effect of language shift on a sound change in progress [abstract]
Maya Ravindranath | |
3:00 pm |
A shift of allegiance: The case of Erie and the North / Midland boundary [abstract]
Keelan Evanini |
Relative animacy and differential object marking in Spanish [abstract]
Ian Tippets & Scott Schwenter |
The phonetic and phonological effects of moribundity [abstract]
Molly Babel |
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3:25 pm |
BREAK | |||
SESSION A8 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B8 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C8 (JMHH 255) | ||
Phonetic methods in the study of variation
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Tense
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Phonetics and phonology in the media
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3:45 pm |
Variation in the definite article: Exploring the sociophonetics of its form and function [abstract]
Rebecca Roeder & Sali Tagliamonte |
Pushing the envelope: Looking beyond the variable context in Iberian Spanish futures [abstract]
Jessi Elana Aaron |
Variation in the 'Iraq' Vowel: Conservatives vs. Liberals [abstract]
Lauren Hall-Lew, Elizabeth Coppock & Rebecca Starr |
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4:10 pm |
Using angle calculations to demonstrate vowel shifts: A diachronic investigation of FOOT-fronting in 20th-century RP (UK) [abstract]
Anne Fabricius |
Pas si simple: Past temporal reference in Acadian French [abstract]
Philip Comeau & Ruth King |
Martha Stewart's style: Using parody to uncover symbolic meaning of stylistic language use [abstract]
Jennifer Sclafani |
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4:35 pm |
Undershoot in intraspeaker variation [abstract]
Robin Dodsworth, Christine Mallinson & Lykara Charters |
Peering into the future: The emergence of going to in the 18th century [abstract]
Joseph Roy |
Beyond audience design: Standard and dialect in broadcast political speech in Murcia, Spain [abstract]
Juan Manuel Hernández Campoy, Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa & Natalie Schilling-Estes |
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5:00 pm |
Following nasals motivate vowel shifts in Western American English [abstract]
Adam Baker, Diana Archangeli & Jeff Mielke |
The future of Ontario French [abstract]
Rick Grimm & Terry Nadasdi |
Don't do it, Mark! Don't kill yersel'!: Individuals, TV, and language variation and change [abstract]
Jane Stuart-Smith & Claire Timmins |
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5:25 pm |
Forks in the road [abstract]
William Labov |
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7:30 pm |
PLENARY ADDRESS: Age-grading and linguistic diffusion
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9:00 pm |
PARTY |
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2007 | ||||
8:30-9:30 am |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (JMHH 255) | |||
8:30 am-12:30 pm |
REGISTRATION (JMHH 255) | |||
9-11 am |
BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH 250) | |||
SESSION A9 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B9 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C9 (JMHH 260) | ||
Influence between black and white English speakers
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Syntactic change
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Methodological and conceptual issues
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9:00 am |
Of coconuts and kings: Accelerated change towards middle-class, elite varieties of English amongst young 'non-white' speakers in post-apartheid South Africa [abstract]
Rajend Mesthrie |
From possessive to existential: Change and preservation in the history of Portuguese [abstract]
Juanito Avelar & Dinah Callou |
Measuring syntactic variability in the linguistic North [abstract]
Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan & Anders Holmberg |
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9:25 am |
'Words, wuds, woids': Variation in BIRD realization in Southern Louisiana [abstract]
Thea Strand, Michael Wroblewski & Mark K. Good |
On the change of double object constructions in Brazilian Portuguese [abstract]
Rosane Berlinck, Maria Aparecida Torres-Morais & Sonia Cyrino |
Extending the use of written questionnaires: Some new variables in Canadian English [abstract]
Charles Boberg |
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9:50 am |
Social class, convergence, and the vowel systems of Columbus, OH AA(V)E and EAE [abstract]
David Durian, Jennifer Schumacher & Melissa Reynard |
Constructional variation: Innovative intransitive constructions in Japanese [abstract]
Natsuko Tsujimura |
Systems theory and the description of emerging patterns of language variation [abstract]
Mary Kohn | |
10:15 am |
Fear of a black phonology: The Northern Cities Shift as linguistic white flight [abstract]
Gerard Van Herk |
From urbis to the countryside: The spreading of the new pronominal form a gente in a Brazilian rural community [abstract]
Luciana Muniz |
Quantifying language degradation in Alzheimer's Disease [abstract]
Vineeta Chand & Lisa Bonnici | |
10:40 am |
BREAK | |||
SESSION A10 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B10 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C10 (JMHH 260) | ||
Chain shifts in North American English
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Syntactic variation
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Gender and linguistic variation
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11:00 am |
More on the Pittsburgh chain shift [abstract]
Scott Kiesling & Barbara Johnstone |
Ethnic identity and past be configuration in the Lumbee community of Baltimore, Maryland [abstract]
Kathleen Williams |
/-s/ Deletion in gay speech in São Paulo, Brazil [abstract]
Ronald Beline Mendes | |
11:25 am |
The Canadian Shift in Toronto [abstract]
Rebecca Roeder & Lidia-Gabriela Jarmasz |
Variation and alternation of second-person verbal forms in Uruguayan border Spanish: Individual representations of community trends [abstract]
Ana M. Carvalho |
Language variation in Egypt: Evidence from talk shows abstract
Reem Bassiouney | |
11:50 am |
The [+spread] of the Northern Cities Shift [abstract]
Tivoli Majors & Matthew J. Gordon |
The effect of geographical and linguistic isolation: Stative possessives in Quebec City English [abstract]
Yukiko Yoshizumi |
National discord: Language style and the politics of sexuality in Israel [abstract]
Erez Levon | |
12:15 pm |
Variation in clitic negation patterns in Yorkshire English: Evidence for supra-localism and diffusion [abstract]
Hazel Steele & Kate Whisker |
Regression as a referee: A theoretical and practical way out of the syntactic-variation impasse in sociolinguistics [abstract]
Stefan Grondelaers & Dirk Speelman |
Why women lead: Factors influencing advancement in the NCS [abstract]
Steve L. Johnson III | |
NWAV 36 | October 11-14, 2007 | University of Pennsylvania | |