October 10, 2023

NWAV51 in NYC!

U of T linguists have a strong presence at 

NWAV51 (New Ways of Analyzing Variation), 

North America's premier sociolinguistics conference, this year!





Beekhuizen, Woolford: Intensifiers never go out of style: quantifying style and its effects on lexical variation

Franco, Tagliamonte: Getting socialized: Variation and change in the passive in Canada

Hachimi, Small: Stylized performance of prepositions: a potential innovation in comedy talent show (withdrawn)

Kang, Gao, Yun, Ryu: An apparent-time study of Daejeon Korean stop laryngeal contrasts

Kang, Yun, Ryu: VOT merger in progress and speech rate accommodation in perception: a case study of Daejeon Korean  

Sali Tagliamonte: The ‘1984’ of linguistic change: A sociolinguistic shock point in the late 20th century.

Kaleigh Woolford: Taking center stage: Measuring variation and change across the center and periphery of lexical fields  

Mechelle Wu: The floating bubble: Linguistic innovations of the highly mobile Third-Culture Kids (TCKs)


And from the HLVC Project: 

Griffin, L. /o/! They’re j/u/st about the same!:  

  Vowel Shift in Heritage and Homeland Seoul Korean

Leung, J. Setting {straight} the record {straight}: Acceptability of alternative word orders in resultatives by heritage Cantonese speakers

Nagy, N. Extending variationist approaches to more languages: Problems & Possibilities

Petrosov, Nagy. (Heritage) Russian case-marking: Variation and paths of change

Tse, H. AM/P~OM/P merger in Hong Kong vs. Toronto Cantonese: An under-documented homeland sound change in a heritage language context

Umbal, P. Stability in the face of contact: Evidence from Heritage Tagalog /u/

 

Prior department members:  

Carrier, J.: Split ergativity and loss of rich verbal agreement 

Muthukumarasamy and Narayan: Exploring variation in heritage Tamil retroflex perception and production 

Neuhausen, M.: “My safe word will be[ʍ]iskey!” – An acoustic approach to the whine-wine split  

Pabst, K.: Northern Maine as a transition zone: Evidence from rhoticity in Southern Aroostook County English

 

That's a a lot of sociolinguistics on October 13-15, 2023!

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