NWAV 39

NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) 39 was held in San Antonio, Texas from November 4th to the 6th this year. UofT was well represented with presentations by the following (listed in alphabetical order of first author):

LeAnn Brown

Gender and Sociophonetics: What Performative Readings Suggest

Derek Denis

The trajectory of General Extenders from a transatlantic perspective: Innovation and innovators

Matt Hunt Gardner

The In-Crowd and the “Oat-casts”: Diphthongs and Identity in a Cape Breton High School

Naomi Nagy, Nina Aghdasi, Derek Denis, Alex Motut, Dylan Uscher

Pro-drop in Heritage Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Contact-Induced Change

Sali Tagliamonte & Bridget Jankowski

The Genitive in Today’s World or the Genitive in the World of Today

Cathleen Waters & Sali Tagliamonte

Innovators Across Innovations: Exploring Co-Variables in Linguistic Change