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8:00 pm |
PLENARY ADDRESS: Language contact and linguistic structure (JMHH auditorium, G06)
Ruth King, York University
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9:15 pm |
RECEPTION (JMHH 8th floor)
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| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2003 |
| 8:15 am-6 pm |
REGISTRATION (JMHH Walnut Street lobby) |
| 8:30-9:30 am |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (JMHH MBA Café) |
| 9 am-6 pm |
BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH 250 & 255) |
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SESSION A1 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B1 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C1 (JMHH 260) |
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The fronting of back vowels in North America
Chair: Marianna Di Paolo |
Methodological issues
Chair: Ralph Fasold |
Syntactic change and variation I
Chair: Miriam Meyerhoff |
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9:00 am |
Words floating on the current of sound change
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William Labov |
When intuition IS needed: The importance of judgment data for the study of syntactic variation [abstract]
Aria Adli
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Adjective position within the noun phrase in Portuguese: Four centuries of variation [abstract]
Dinah Callou & Carolina Serra
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9:25 am |
The social and linguistic conditioning of back vowel fronting across ethnic groups in Memphis, TN
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Valerie Fridland & Kathy Bartlett |
Stylistic inversion and the EPP: A socio-syntactic approach
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Jeong-Seok Kim & Hikyoung Lee
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Semantic and phonological constraints on the distribution of null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese
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Mary Aizawa Kato & Maria Eugenia Lamoglia Duarte
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9:50 am |
Rounding, coarticulation, and fronting for /u/ and /U/ among Texana, NC and Detroit African American speakers: Problematizing the internal/external dichotomy [abstract]
Bridget L. Anderson & Becky Childs |
Reconciling fieldworkers' reports: Lowman vs. McDavid [abstract]
John Nerbonne
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A comparative study of subject pro-drop in Old Chinese and Modern Chinese
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Zhiyi Song
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10:15 am |
One shift, two groups: When fronting alone is not enough [abstract]
Lauren Hall-Lew |
Methodological issues in the sociolinguistic application of written surveys [abstract]
Matthew J. Gordon
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Subject pro-drop in Israeli Hebrew: Morphosyntactic/pragmatic variation
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Uri Horesh
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10:40 am |
BREAK |
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SESSION A2 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B2 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C2 (JMHH 260) |
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Aspects of the Canadian shift
Chair: Nancy Niedzielski |
Isolated communities in the U.S.
Chair: Thomas B. Morton |
Variation in agreement, tense and aspect
Chair: John Charles Smith |
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11:00 am |
The Canadian shift in Montreal
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Charles Boberg |
Trajectories of change in African American Vernacular English: Comparative evidence from isolated African American communities [abstract]
Walt Wolfram
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No /n/ in sight: Function and stigma in Latin American Spanish
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Michol Hoffman
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11:25 am |
The role of coarticulation in Canadian raising [abstract]
Erika Alpert |
Ethnic isolates in insular dialect situations: The significance of individualized ethnolinguistic identity
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Jeffrey Reaser
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A trend and panel study of number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: Structural dimensions
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Maria Marta Pereira Scherre & Anthony J. Naro
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11:50 am |
Results and implications of a real time study: Forty years of language variation on Martha's Vineyard [abstract]
Jenny Pope
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The lost community of the Outer Banks: African American speech on Roanoke Island [abstract]
Jeannine Carpenter & Sarah Hilliard
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Ya verás: The fossilization of the future in Mexican Spanish
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Jessi Elana Aaron
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12:15 pm |
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Dialect loss in Smith Island English: A look at non-standard subject-verb concord [abstract]
Anna Marie Trester
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Ter + past participle or Estar + gerund? Aspect and syntactic variation in Brazilian Portuguese [abstract]
Ronald Beline Mendes
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12:40 pm |
LUNCH |
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SESSION A3 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B3 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C3 (JMHH 260) |
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Developments in the South
Chair: David Bowie |
French in North America
Chair: Pierrette Thibault |
Language contact and language history in creole and AAVE tense and aspect systems
Chair: John Rickford |
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1:45 pm |
Sound changes in progess in Kentucky speech
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Terry Lynn Irons |
A comparison of gender non-marking in Montreal L1 & L2 French
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Hélène Blondeau & Naomi Nagy
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Use of the progressive morpheme in the spoken Papiamento of Aruba
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Tara Sanchez
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2:10 pm |
Beyond TELSUR: The regionalization of Charleston, S.C.
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Maciej Baranowski |
The intergenerational pattern of attrition in Cajun French
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Sibylle Noetzel & Silvie Dubois
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Surinamese Creole TMA and substrate influence [abstract]
Donald Winford
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2:35 pm |
A first look at rhythm in Southern African American and European American English [abstract]
Erik R. Thomas & Phillip M. Carter |
Interference-induced linguistic innovations on the continuum of language contact: The case of French in Ontario [abstract]
Raymond Mougeon, Terry Nadasdi & Katherine Rehner
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"I be done lef' the windows down an' it be done rained all over it": An analysis of 'sequential be done' in rural AAVE [abstract]
Patricia Cukor-Avila
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3:00 pm |
The role of /r/ and /l/ in the evolution of Southern American phonology
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Jan Tillery, Claire Andres, Brooke Ehrhardt & Guy Bailey |
What Acadians and Cajuns agree on: A comparison of third person plural marking
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Sylvie Dubois, Ruth King & Terry Nadasdi
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Temporal structure of ex-slave narratives: Marking events in the distant past [abstract]
Lisa Green & Nikki R. Seifert
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3:25 pm |
BREAK |
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SESSION A4 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B4 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C4 (JMHH 260) |
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Perceptual studies
Chair: Hikyoung Lee |
Kids and school
Chair: Anne Charity |
Syntactic change and variation II
Chair: Tracey Weldon |
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3:45 pm |
The /ay/s have it: Stereotype, perception, and region [abstract]
Bartek Plichta & Dennis R. Preston |
Are there class-linked differences in semantic acquisition? Evidence from working- and middle-class children's responses on a picture labeling task [abstract]
Jennifer Collins Bloomquist |
Counting and coding the past: Circumscribing the variable context in quantitative analyses of past inflection
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Stephanie Hackert
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4:10 pm |
Making sense of variation: Pleasantness and education ratings of regional vowel variants
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Valerie Fridland, Kathy Bartlett & Wayne Mackey |
Aggravating children: Doing disagreement in a dual language immersion program [abstract]
Holly Cashman
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A-prefixing in Appalachian English: Archaism or innovation?
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Michael Montgomery |
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4:35 pm |
Are you a native speaker? The role of ethnic background in the hallucination of foreign accents on native speakers [abstract]
Eriko Atagi
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A quantitative study of the acquisition of variable vowel systems among African American children [abstract]
Kathleen M. Shaw
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Ter and haver in the history of Portuguese: The appearance of ter in existential environments [abstract]
Dinah Callou & Juanito Avelar
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6-8 pm |
POSTER SESSION and RECEPTION (JMHH colloquium space, 8th floor)
Sponsored by John Benjamins Publishing Company |
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A linguistic time-capsule: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English [abstract]
W.H.A. Allen, J.C. Beal, K.P. Corrigan, H. Moisl, C. Rowe
Acquisition of glottalization by native and non-native Vermont children [abstract]
Oksana Babenko
Information status and pitch prominence: Variation in the prosodic realization of not-negation in American English [abstract]
Atissa Banuazizi
The melting pot and the Moulin Rouge: Affinity and the spread of new lexical items in media fandom
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Evelyn Browne
Free classification of regional varieties of American English [abstract]
Cynthia G. Clopper & David B. Pisoni
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Modeling co-articulatory-acoustic relations in sociophonetic variation [abstract]
Paul De Decker
"Come in, Mrs. Johnson - or is it Miss?": Female title usage in the South Midlands [abstract]
Janet M. Fuller
Division and unity in West Virginia mergers [abstract]
Kirk Hazen
/-t d/ deletion in Japanese-Canadian English [abstract]
Junko Hibiya
Not conforming to what? Competing norms, local identity, and the decline of /aw/-monophthongization in Pittsburgh [abstract]
Scott F. Kiesling & Marc Wisnosky
Speaking Spanish with style: (s)-Deletion in Argentine Spanish and Labov's decision tree [abstract]
Natalia Mazzaro
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Variation in children's vowels due to dialect and phonologic disorder [abstract]
Rebecca McCauley, Julie Roberts & Christine Arena
Transcription as methodology: Using transcription tasks to assess language attitudes [abstract]
Jennifer Nguyen
Children's use of Cajun English in southeastern Louisiana
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Janna B. Oetting & April W. Garrity
EFL as a contact language: Evidence from variation in an L1 [abstract]
Elizabeth Peterson
Tracing structural nativization in New Englishes [abstract]
Edgar W. Schneider
Unity in variation: A case study of /r/ in urban dialects in Flanders and the Netherlands
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Evie Tops, Koen Sebregts & Hans Van de Velde
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| SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2003 |
| 8:30-9:30 am |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (JMHH MBA Café) |
| 8:45 am-6 pm |
REGISTRATION (JMHH Walnut Street lobby) |
| 9 am-6 pm |
BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH 250 & 255) |
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SESSION A1 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B1 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C1 (JMHH 260) |
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Real time and apparent time
Chair: Shana Poplack |
Language contact: Phonological aspects
Chair: Hassan R. S. Abdel-Jawad |
African American speech and the media
Chair: Renée Blake |
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9:00 am |
A trend study of number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: Social dimensions
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Anthony J. Naro & Maria Marta Pereira Scherre |
The sociolect of 17th-18th century French settlers: Phonological clues from French Creoles [abstract]
Anne-Marie Brousseau
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Speech style and authenticity: Quantitative evidence for the performance of identity
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Gregory R. Guy & Cece Cutler
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9:25 am |
Real, or apparent, or both? Three types of evidence for a grammaticalization change in progress in Brazilian Portuguese [abstract]
Ana M. S. Zilles |
Prosodic consequences of being a Beur: French in contact with immigrant languages in a working-class suburb of Paris
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Zsuzsanna Fagyal
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"Tha's awight" is(t) "n'Ordnung": Dubbing African-American English into German [abstract]
Robin Queen
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9:50 am |
Language change in apparent and real time, the community and the individual [abstract]
Natalie Schilling-Estes
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Germanic prosody and French loanwords
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Ann-Marie Svensson & Jurgen Hering
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'You know my steez': The effects of race, gender and Hip Hop cultural knowledge on the speech style of Black youth
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H. Samy Alim
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10:15 am |
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Transatlantic connections: Ingressive discourse particles and the diffusion of non-linguistic constraints [abstract]
Sandra Clarke & Gunnel Melchers
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Golly gee! The construction of middle-class white characters in the monologues of African-American comedians
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Jacquelyn Rahman
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10:40 am |
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SESSION A2 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B2 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C2 (JMHH 260) |
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Corpus-based syntactic research on English
Chair: Gunnel Tottie |
Dialect contact: Phonological aspects
Chair: Jack Chambers |
Refining acoustic analysis
Chair: Henrietta Cedergren |
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11:00 am |
That or no that in English dialect corpora: Grammaticalization, frequency and complexity in the emergence of grammar [abstract]
Sali Tagliamonte, Helen Lawrence & Jennifer Smith |
Language contact and dialect contact: Cross-generational phonological changes in a Puerto Rican community in the Midwest of the United States [abstract]
Michelle F. Ramos-Pellicia
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An acoustic study of the devoicing of /v/ and /z/ in Dutch [abstract]
Mikhail Kissine, Hans Van de Velde & Roeland van Hout
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11:25 am |
Taking a complement ... variably [abstract]
Rena Torres Cacoullos & James A. Walker |
Chain shifting and accent levelling in south-eastern British English [abstract]
Eivind N. Torgersen & Paul Kerswill
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Lenition of the flap in American English [abstract]
Matt Bauer
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11:50 am |
A phonological factor for the decline in topicalization in English [abstract]
Augustin Speyer |
On intensity and duration of language contact: A comparative study of word-final plosive reduction levels in 19th century Maori and Pakeha New Zealand English [abstract]
Daniel Schreier
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Acoustic analysis of the low back merger in Missouri speech [abstract]
Tivoli Majors
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12:15 pm |
In perfect shape: Verb semantics in the history of the English perfect
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Gerard Van Herk |
The limits of linguistic community: speech styles and variable constraint effects
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Gregory R. Guy & Laureen Tsu-Chiann Lim
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The marriage of sociolinguistics and phonetics: The honeymoon is over [abstract]
Bridget L. Anderson, William Kretzschmar, Jr. & Mark Arehart
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12:40 pm |
LUNCH |
| 12:45 pm |
BUSINESS MEETING for past, present, and potential future hosts of NWAV(E) (JMHH 245)
Please bring a bag lunch (available from one of the Au Bon Pains in JMHH or from an outside food truck or restaurant).
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SESSION A3 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B3 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C3 (JMHH 260) |
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Historical syntax
Chair: Anthony Kroch |
Language contact
Niloofar Haeri |
Individual alignments: Gender and ethnicity
Chair: Richard Cameron |
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1:45 pm |
Interpreting the sociolinguistics of DO NOT in the 16th and 17th century
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Anthony Warner |
Variability and future temporal reference: The French of Anglo-montrealers [abstract]
Nathalie Dion & Hélène Blondeau
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Self-identification, accommodation, the linguistic marketplace, and individual change: A longitudinal study of phonology
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Crawford Feagin
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2:10 pm |
A quantitative analysis of the loss of OV order in English
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Ann Taylor & Susan Pintzuk |
Variability in the use and distribution of classifiers in Bishnupriya, a contact language [abstract]
Shobha Satyanath & Nazrin B. Laskar
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What sounds "black": Undergraduates' perceptions of AAE [abstract]
Kate Anderson
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2:35 pm |
Detecting the change from Classical to Modern European Portuguese: Quantitative and qualitative evidence [abstract]
Charlotte Galves |
Why do minority languages persist? The case of Circassian in Jordan [abstract]
Hassan R. S. Abdel-Jawad
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Communities of practice in sociolinguistic description: African American women's language in Appalachia [abstract]
Christine Mallinson & Becky Childs |
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3:00 pm |
Variation and change in Late Middle English negation [abstract]
Richard Ingham |
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Variation in the realisation of (t) in Ipswich [abstract]
Michelle Straw & Peter L. Patrick
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3:25 pm |
BREAK |
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SESSION A4 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B4 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C4 (JMHH 260) |
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English syntax: Historical variation
Chair: Beatrice Santorini |
Perceptual studies
Chair: Penelope Eckert |
Film session
Chair: Sonja Lanehart |
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3:45 pm |
Translation effects on V2 word order in a conservative Middle English dialect
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Suzanne Evans Wagner |
From correlation to meaning: A matched guise study of (ING) and /t/ release [abstract]
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
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3:45 pm - What's Your Sign for PIZZA? An Introduction to Variation in ASL
Ceil Lucas & Robert Bayley
Video and guide designed to introduce the Deaf community and the general public to the nature of sociolinguistic variation in American Sign Language. Based on data collected in natural conversation, sociolinguistic interviews, and lexical elicitation tasks, the materials provide an introduction to sign language structure and then focus on phonological, syntactic, and lexical variation. Open-captioned and voiced-over for both hearing and deaf audiences. [read more]
4:50 pm - Mountain Talk
Walt Wolfram, Executive Producer
An hour-long documentary on the language and culture of Southern Appalachian to be aired on PBS in the winter of 2004. Tells the story of the unique linguistic heritage of the Southern Highlands through the inimitable personalities of the region. The full spectrum of language use is exhibited in the natural conversations and indigenous activities, ranging from the performance of traditional music to the ordinary, everyday interactions among intimate friends. [read more]
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4:10 pm |
Negative concord and the constant rate hypothesis [abstract]
Amel Kallel |
Evolving linguistic standards in Quebec: A sociolinguistic analysis of production, perception and evaluation [abstract]
Anicka Fast-Clarke
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4:35 pm |
Leaders of linguistic change in Early Modern England [abstract]
Helena Raumolin-Brunberg |
Auditory accounts of the word-final nasal merger in Mandarin: Perception experiments and their limitations [abstract]
James H. Yang
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5:00 pm |
Historical evidence for "default singulars": The use of WAS with plural subjects in earlier English [abstract]
Terttu Nevalainen |
More on perceptions of /a/ fronting [abstract]
Brad Rakerd & Bartek Plichta
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7:30 pm |
PLENARY ADDRESS: A variationist solution to an old historical problem
(JMHH auditorium, G06)
Donald Ringe, University of Pennsylvania
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9:00 pm |
PARTY (Penn LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce Street)
Note: If you would like to bring along a guest who will not be a registered NWAVE participant, please indicate this on your preregistration form OR email Tara Sanchez as soon as possible.
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| SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2003 |
| 8:30-9:30 am |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (JMHH MBA Café) |
| 8:30 am-12:30 pm |
REGISTRATION (JMHH Walnut Street lobby) |
| 9-11 am |
BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH 250 & 255) |
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SESSION A1 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B1 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C1 (JMHH 260) |
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Phonetic variation: Identity and social meaning I
Chair: Lesley Milroy |
Model building and testing
Chair: Elizabeth Dayton |
Language contact: Code-switching and borrowing
Chair: Brian McHugh |
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9:00 am |
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Consonant clusters in Singapore English [abstract]
Arto Anttila, Stefan Benus & Vivienne Fong
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Close encounters of a different kind: Two types of insertion in Nigerian Arabic codeswitching
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Jonathan Owens
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9:25 am |
From kid talk to adolescent talk: Vowels on the preadolescent heterosexual market
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Penelope Eckert & Laura Staum |
Global faithfulness and choice of repair [abstract]
Jennifer Nycz
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A unified account of bare forms in bilingual speech
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Steven Gross
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9:50 am |
Peer group identification and variation in New York Latino English /l/ [abstract]
Peter Slomanson & Michael Newman |
From linguistic geography to feature geometry: Structural markedness and variable clitic strings [abstract]
David Heap
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Verbs don't come easy: Bilingual verb formation in language contact and acquisition [abstract]
Agnes Bolonyai
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10:15 am |
Ethnicity, gender, and place in Northern Vermont [abstract]
Julie Roberts & Kathleen Doyle |
Attribute networking: A technique for modeling locally perceived categories [abstract]
Robin Dodsworth
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Script choice as an indicator of loanword status in bilingual writing [abstract]
Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer
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10:40 am |
BREAK |
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SESSION A2 (JMHH 240) |
SESSION B2 (JMHH 245) |
SESSION C2 (JMHH 260) |
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Phonetic variation: Identity and social meaning II
Chair: Augusto Lorenzino |
Language change: English quotatives
Chair: John Singler |
Dialectology
Chair: Sharon Ash |
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11:00 am |
'On de farm': Sociolinguistic meaning in town and country
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Mary Rose |
When people say, I was like ...: The quotative system in Canadian youth [abstract]
Alex D'Arcy & Sali Tagliamonte
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What can we learn from syntax geography? Evidence from the Syntactic Atlas of Swiss German Dialects [abstract]
Guido Seiler
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11:25 am |
Yeshivish, the language of Talmud study: Newly Orthodox Jewish men's use of Yiddish-influenced English [abstract]
Sarah Bunin Benor |
The quotative system of contemporary American English: A cross-register, corpus-based study of sociolinguistic use [abstract]
Federica Barbieri
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From dialectology to regional socio-dialectology: Linguistic and social history in west-central Puerto Rico [abstract]
Jonathan Carl Holmquist
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11:50 am |
Linguistic style and mosaic identity: Phonological variation and Reform American Judaism [abstract]
Erez Levon |
Putting perception to the reality test: The case of go and like [abstract]
Isabelle Buchstaller
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The linguistic contribution of the European-American founder population of El Paso County, Texas [abstract]
Anne Marie Hamilton
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NWAVE 32 | October 9-12, 2003 | University of Pennsylvania | Contact
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