2nd Annual Buffalo-Toronto Workshop on Variation Within and Across Languages

We are hosting the second annual Buffalo-Toronto Workshop on Variation Within and Across Languages on Saturday, March 16. The workshops probe linguistic variation in every sense (sociolinguistic, typological) using all sorts of methods (variationist, computational, experimental, etc.) and encourage a bit of cross-border mingling!

Lauren Bigelow (MA), Timothy Gadanidis (Ph.D.), Lisa Schlegl (Ph.D.), Pocholo Umbal (Ph.D.), and Derek Denis (faculty):
"[dat’s] loud bro: A report on TH-stopping in Multicultural Toronto English."

Julia Watson (BA alumna), Barend Beekhuizen (faculty), and Suzanne Stevenson (faculty, Department of Computer Science):
"Identifying the evolutionary progression of colour from crosslinguistic data."

Timothy Gadanidis (Ph.D.), Naomi Nagy (faculty), and Joyce Woo (BA):
"Co-variation in Heritage Cantonese in Toronto."

Alana Johns (faculty):
"Brick walls in language: Dialect solutions."

Barend Beekhuizen (faculty):
"Computational tools for doing semantic typology: Parallel corpora and predictive models."

Fiona Wilson (Ph.D.):
"Negation in Cree: Variation in the Muskeg dialect."

Katharina Pabst (Ph.D.):
"The role of word frequency in yod dropping: [n(j)u] insights into an old change."

Pocholo Umbal (Ph.D.):
"/u/-fronting and cross-language influence: Evidence from Filipinos in Toronto."

Patrick Murphy (Ph.D.):
"Online experiments for research in linguistics."

Anissa Baird (BA) and Rachel Keir (BA):
"Word-final vowel deletion: Italian’s influence on Faetar?"

Julien Carrier (Ph.D.):
"Variation and morphosyntactic alignment changes in Inuktitut."

Julianne Doner (Ph.D.):
"Non-nominal subjects and topic prominence."

Angelika Kiss (Ph.D.):
"Word order variation in Mbyá."