WISSLR 2020

The 2020 Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research (WISSLR) took place at the University of Western Ontario on Saturday, February 29.

• Derek Denis (faculty) gave the keynote speech: "The enregisterment and the spread of Multicultural Toronto English."
• Michael Iannozzi (BA 2014, now at the University of Western Ontario) gave a talk: "An emigrated Italian dialect and its variable realization of /v/ as [w]."
• Olga Tararova (Ph.D. 2018, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, now at the University of Western Ontario) was part of a presentation with Giulia Cortiana (University of Western Ontario): "The complete deletion of /d/ in past participle -ar verbs: A comparative sociophonetic analysis between Spanish native speakers and English-speaking learners of Spanish."