- Kathryn Campbell-Kibler: Cognitive Questions of Sociolinguistic Meaning [abstract]
- Robin Dodsworth: New Approaches to Network Analysis in Sociolinguistics [abstract]
- James Stanford: Mysteries of Uniformity: Perspectives from Less Commonly Studied Speech Communities [abstract]
- Josef Fruehwald: Big Data and Sociolinguistics [abstract]
- Bill Labov: The Romance of Short-a in Philadelphia [abstract]
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PLC 38 (March 28-30, 2014)
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PLC 37 (March 22-24, 2013)
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PLC 36 (March 23-25, 2012)
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PLC 35 (March 18-20, 2011)
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PLC 34 (March 19-21, 2010)
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PLC 33 (March 27-29, 2009)
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PLC 32 (February 22-24, 2008)
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PLC 31 (February 23-25, 2007)
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Penn Linguistics Conference
The 39th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference will take place March 20-22, 2015 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, PA.
PLC is a conference in linguistics run by the graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
This Conference is made possible by the contribution of an anonymous donor, and generous funding from:
Invited Speaker: Anna Szabolcsi
Keynote title: The Busy Lives of Quantifier Particles [abstract]
Special Panel: Sociolinguistic Frontiers
On the occasion of Bill Labov's retirement, the panel convenes early- to mid- career researchers to address the pressing issues and emerging areas of inquiry that will animate the next 50 years of sociolinguistic research.
The panel speakers and the titles of their talks are:
This panel will take place in the afternoon on Friday, March 20, 2015.
Previous Conferences
Proceedings of previous conferences are on the the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics website. Through PLC 30 the PWPL was an in-print publication and a hard-copy volume can be ordered. Since PLC 31 the PWPL has been a free-access online publication only.