A number of Penn linguists will be presenting at NWAV 43 which will be held October 23-26 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference is hosted jointly by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Illinois Chicago campuses in downtown Chicago.
Papers:
- "Phonotactic simplification in borrowed /TH/-fronting"
Sneller, Betsy
University of Pennsylvania - "Priming mechanisms in phonological and morphological persistence"
Tamminga, Meredith
University of Pennsylvania - "Cyclic Degrading: Strict cyclicity meets variable rules"
Shwayder, Kobey; Kwon, Soohyun & McLaughlin, Brittany
University of Pennsylvania - "The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: incremental change in Philadelphia families"
Fisher, Sabriya; Prichard, Hillary & Sneller, Betsy
University of Pennsylvania - "Shtreets of Philadelphia"
Gylfadottir, Duna
University of Pennsylvania - "Senior peer pressure' and late-stage language change"
Wagner, Suzanne Evans & Sankoff, Gillian
Michigan State University & University of Pennsylvania
Papers in a panel session:
- "A Convergence of Dialects in Saint Louis Corridor"
Friedman, Lauren
University of Pennsylvania - "What we do and do not know about the Northern Cities Shift"
Labov, William
University of Pennnsylvania