NWAV 37 Program
Thursday, Nov 6
  Workshops
1:00 - 3:00 Workshop 1-1: Workshop on Eye-tracking.
Katherine Crosswhite (Rice University)


Rice University
Linguistics Department
Phonetics Lab
Herring Hall 213
Workshop 1-2: Practical speech synthesis for sociolinguists.
Bartek Plichta (University of Minnesota)


Hotel Zaza
Phantom Ballroom A
Workshop 1-3: Towards best practices in sociophonetics.
Marianna Di Paolo (University of Utah) and Malcah Yaeger-Dror (University of Arizona)

Hotel Zaza
Phantom Ballroom C
Workshop 1-4: Methodological issues in language attitude research.
Stefan Grondelaers (Radboud University Nijmegen)


Hotel Zaza
Deja Vu
3:30 - 5:30 Workshop 2-1: Community collaboration in the name of sociolinguistic engagement.
Walt Wolfram, Jeffrey Reaser (North Carolina State University) and Charlotte Vaughn (Northwestern University)

Hotel Zaza
Hemingway		 Workshop 2-2: Collecting and working with conversational data.
Robert Englebretson (Rice University)



Hotel Zaza
Phantom Ballroom A		 Workshop 2-3: Variation analysis -- everything you always wanted to know.
Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto) and John Paolillo (Indiana University)


Hotel Zaza
Phantom Ballroom C		 Workshop 2-4: Doing Community Surveys to Document Ongoing Economic and Demographic Transformations.
Stephen Klineberg (Rice University)


Hotel Zaza
Deja Vu
7:00 Plenary #1: Each One Teach One: Collaboration and Coordination among Schools, Communities, and the Academy. Sonja L. Lanehart (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Invited speakers include: John Robinson (Houston Area Urban League), Rev. William A. Lawson (William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity), Rev. Myron Cloyd (Pilgrim Congregational Church in the 3rd Ward / Houston Housing Authority), Rev. Dr. Marcus D. Cosby and Rev. Terry Mackey (Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church), Tracy Beavers/Ada Edwards (City of Houston)

Hotel Zaza, Phantom Ballroom
8:30 Opening Night Reception, hosted by Cambridge University Press. Hotel Zaza, Phantom Lounge.
Friday, Nov 7
  Communities



Phantom A 		The Northern Cities Shift



Hemingway 		Gender & sexuality



Phantom C 		African American English



Deja Vu 		Special session: Variation in less commonly studied minority languages

Fountain
8:30 - 8:55 withdrawn Newlin-Lukowicz: Vowel perception and the chronology of the Northern Cities Shift Macaulay: Oh my God! Clyde Valley Girls Spears: BACK, DOWN, and the Word Class of Exclamatorials in African American English (AAE) Bowern: Seven Speakers, Eight Varieties: Variation in an Endangered Arnhem Land Clan Language
8:55 - 9:20 Kendall: Identity, performance, and "consciousness": The use of locally salient linguistic forms in a formerly isolated community Ito: Minority in the Midwest: The vowel system of Hmong Americans in the Twin Cities Fuller: Gender and disruptive behavior in fourth and fifth grade classrooms Fix: Beyond stereotypes: white women, black worlds, linguistic variation and style Di Paolo, Sykes, Mitchell, James: Variation in Shoshoni/Gosiute vowels
9:20 - 9:45 Major: Variation on a Theme: Organic Chemistry Nomenclature Dinkin: Weakening Resistance: Progress Toward the Low Back Merger in New York State Smith, Currie Hall, Munson: Rethinking the meaning of Minnesotan /æ/: sexual orientation or personal well-being? Donath: The role of AAE in professional identity work within an engineering community of practice Rau: From Martha's Vineyard to Orchid Island: /ay/ and /aw/ in Yami
9:45 - 10:10 Sanchez: What the multilingual community contributes to a theory of 'speech community' McCarthy: The Northern Cities Shift in real- and apparent-time: Evidence from Chicago Van Herk, Childs: Work that -S! Drag queens, gender, identity, and traditional Newfoundland English Singler: The African American English of antebellum Philadelphia: Evidence from trial records at Bethel AME Church Ravindranath: Language contact in Garifuna: Acquisition of a phonemic distinction
10:10 - 10:25 Coffee break
  Communities



Phantom A 		Sociophonetics



Hemingway 		Spanish tense, aspect & mood


Phantom C 		African American English and diachrony


Deja Vu 		Special session: Variation in less commonly studied minority languages (cont.)

Fountain
10:25 - 10:50 Fagyal, Swarup, Escobar, Gasser, Lakkaraju: Centers, peripheries, and popularity: the emergence of norms in simulated networks of linguistic influence Durian: A new perspective on vowel variation throughout the 20th Century in Columbus, OH Schwenter et al.: Epistemic Adverbs and Mood Choice in Three Spanish Dialects Wilkerson: Copula Absence in the Mississippi Delta: A creole legacy? Romero: The Jesperson cycle in Mayan: Speaker stance and the rise of post-verbal negators in K'iche' Mayan
10:50 - 11:15 Davies: Linguistic Communities of a Southern American Public University Drager, Eckert, Moon: Style and Prosodic Variation Schoonmaker-Gates: Present Perfect for the Recent Past in Two Dialects of Spanish Van Hofwegen, Wolfram: Coming of Age in African American English: A Longitutinal Study Satyanath, Laskar: Bishnupriya and not Manipuri? Surviving identity and conflict in Northeastern India
11:15 - 11:40 Baker, Bowie: Religious affiliation as a correlate of linguistic behavior Yaeger-Dror, Kendall, Foulkes, Watt, Oddie, Harrison, Kavenagh: Perception of r-fulness by trained listeners Knouse: Variation of tense/aspect of stative verbs in Madrileño Spanish: No estaba mal vs. no estuvo mal Carpenter: Voices of Jim Crow: An Intra-Generational Analysis of Earlier AAE in Birmingham Stanford: "For better or for worse, for your dialect or for mine": Hmong Daw/Mong Leng dialect contact through marriage
11:40 - 12:05 Tagliamonte, Denis: From community to community: Transmission and diffusion in Canadian English Alfaraz: A look-see at the Spanish verbs of visual perception Van Hofwegen: The Evolution of /l/ across Three Generations of African-Americans Discussion
12:05 - 1:45 Lunch
  Variation in ASL

Phantom A 		Vowel variation

Hemingway 		Variation in Spanish

Phantom C 		Corpus-based studies

Deja Vu 		Globalization

Fountain
1:45 - 2:10 Pizer: Sign and speech in family interaction: Code choices of hearing children whose parents are deaf Irons: Euclidean Distance and Angle Calculation Analysis of Back Vowel Fronting: A Diachronic Investigation of Change in Kentucky Speech Hernández: Variation in a dialect contact situation: measuring the effects of a close-knit community Yao: A report on vowel alternation in "the" pronunciation in conversational American English Rubin Damari: Stance taking as identity work: Attributed, accreted, and adjusted stances taken by an intercultural couple
2:10 - 2:35 Lucas, McCaskill, Bayley, Hill, Baldwin: Black ASL: The Socio-historical foundations Dodsworth, Kohn: An exploratory study of front vowels in Raleigh, NC Sessarego: Concordantia Temporum and Andean Spanish: old issue, new solutions Höhn: Quotatives in educated Jamaican English: A corpus-based study Newlin-Lukowicz, Parker: LL-MAP - a tool for mapping sociolinguistic variation
2:35 - 3:00 Lewis: The role of amibiguity avoidance in (near-)mergers Rohena-Madrazo: Buenos Aires Spanish in real time: the advancement of palatal fricative devoicing Leimgruber: Sociolinguistic variation in Singapore: towards a new model
3:00 - 3:15 Coffee
3:15 - 5:00 Poster session
  Askin: Distinguishing the English of Bilingual Spanish/English and Monolingual Latino English Speakers
  Baker, Stocking: Hero or Villain?: The Effect of Media on Children's Perceptions of Several Varieties of English
  Bakos: An Examination of the Adaptation to the Northern Cities Chain Shift by Lebanese Immigrants in Dearborn, Michigan
  Becker, Wong: The short-a system of New York City English: An update
  Bigham: The Correlation of the Low-Back Vowel Merger and /æ/-Retraction
  Bonnici: (blank) English: Complexities surrounding the designation of "new" Englishes based on fieldwork in Malta
  Bonnici, Chand: The impact of colonial history and multilingualism on dialect formation: Contrasting Malta and India
  Colley: Why Variation Matters: The Case of Automated Speech Recognition
  Contente, Cardoso: Word-final [u]-deletion in Faialense Portuguese (Azores): A sociolinguistic approach
  De Decker: Gender differences in the categorization and evaluation of phonetic structure during phonetic change in progress
  Eberhardt: Who Goes 'Dahntahn'?: Monophthongal /aw/ in Pittsburgh AAE
  Gentry Brunner: The Identification of Foreign-Accented English: A Sociolinguistic Topic with Forensic Significance
  Gudmestad: Moving beyond a sentence-level analysis in the study of variable mood use in Spanish
  Holt, Fox, Jacewicz: Evidence of Southern Vowel Shift in African American English in Western North Carolina
  Hsieh, Evans Wagner: Americans usually can put adverbs before auxiliaries: A corpus study
  Hartman Keiser: "It's so 'r'-y": A quantitative study of liquids in language contact and dialect di-/con-vergence
  Laleko: Morphosyntactic Variation in the Expression of Aspect: Heritage Russian
  Lee: Identities and Lyrics: Quantitative Analysis of Phonological Variation in Korean Hip-Hop English Lyrics
  Liao: Style-shifting and Stylization: Young Men's Language Practice and Identity Construction
  Lide: Listener Constructions of Country Singer Identity in a Community of Practice
  Llamas, Johnson, Watt: Variable /r/-fulness along the Scottish/English border
  Nagy, Meyerhoff: The love that dare not speak its name -- The fascination with monolingual speech communities in sociolinguistics
  Nielsen: "I ain't never been charged with nothing!": The use of falsetto speech as a linguistic strategy of indignation
  Nilep: Defining "code" and "language" in code switching
  Pantos: Evidence of relative social status in naturally-occurring North Vietnamese discourse
  Ruiz-Sánchez: The social status of /-r/ deletion in Alcalá de Guadaíra (Andalusia, Spain)
  Siebers, Montgomery, Schneider: Introducing COAAL: A Corpus of Older African American Letters and its linguistic significance
  Smitley, Jacewicz, Fox: Stylistic variation in the production of /ai/ by North Carolina girls
  Smyth: Sociophonetic perceptions of age, social class, and sexual orientation
  Tennant, King: Rhythm in the Spoken French of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island
  Tipton, Pennington: The NURSE-SQUARE 'merger' in North-West England: a sociolinguistic oddity?
  Uzum: The investigation of lexical choice in the political community of Turkey: evidence for an imaginary space
  Wright: Stop contrast in Seoul Korean: Change in Apparent Time
6:00 Plenary #2: "Your language registration and insurance, madam!": Varying Language and Police-Civilian Communication. Howard Giles (University of California, Santa Barbara). Discussant: Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Edinburgh)

Herzstein Hall Ampitheater, Rice University
Saturday, Nov 8
  Special Session: The Social Meaning of Linguistic Variation: Structure and Process

Phantom A 		Prosody




Hemingway 		The media




Phantom C 		ADS special session




Deja Vu 		Canadian English




Fountain
8:30 - 8:55 Taylor: Conventionalization, place, and collective identification in Houston Hip Hop Armstrong, Clopper, Smiljanic: Pause Distribution in Three American English Dialects: Southern, Midland and Mid-Atlantic Van Compernolle: Online extensions of the offline speech community: Orthographic variation in two French-language chat communities Nerbonne: Areal Effects in Varietal Classification Baxter: Transitioning Between Dialects: Variable r-lessness in a Canadian border community
8:55 - 9:20 Queen: What voicing non-human animals reveals about the connection between linguistic variation and social meaning Levon: Representatively speaking: Tracing variation between the community and the individual Lopez: Media's (Mis)Appropriation of Black Speech Fallon: Where the South Begins: Another Battle of Fredericksburg Hoffman: Quality or Quantity?: Ethnic Identity and the Progress of the Canadian Vowel Shift in Toronto
9:20 - 9:45 Chun: Linguistic relationality and the use of negation resources among U.S. youth Vaughn: Effects of discourse factors on prosodic rhythm: Evidence from inter- and intra-speaker variation in Hispanic English Henley, Hollett, Ingram, Van Herk: Grey's Anatomy viewers as a community of choice (seriously) Greene: Language Ideology and Appalachian English Nycz: Acquiring phonological features of a second dialect: Canadians [kh?t] in New York
9:45 - 10:10 Podesva, Jamsu, Callier, Heitman: The social meaning of released /t/ among US politicians: Insights from production and perception Abraham: Variable subject personal pronoun use in synchronous electronic Spanish discourse Hamilton, Hazen: Not Just 'One of them things': Demonstrative Them in Appalachia Hinrichs: Variation in the diaspora community: the language of Canadian-born Jamaicans
10:10 - 10:25 Coffee
  Special Session: The Social Meaning of Linguistic Variation: Structure and Process (cont.)

Phantom A 		Speech perception




Hemingway 		Age




Phantom C 		Creoles




Deja Vu 		North American French




Fountain
10:25 - 10:50 Campbell-Kibler: New directions in sociolinguistic cognition Grondelaers, Van Hout: Non-circular evaluative scales and spontaneous stimuli: measuring accent attitudes in the Dutch language area Evans Wagner: (ing) and (dh) production in the post-high school transition withdrawn Mougeon, Nadasdi: Driving through three decades of variation in Ontario French
10:50 - 11:15 Zhang: An Innovative Linguistic Style in the Construction of New Social Distinction in China Strycharz: Attitudes and awareness in a self-reported study of Osaka Japanese honorifics Jamsu: Age Stratification in the Social Meaning of 'be like' Gooden, Osiapem: Sentence Intonation in Black Bermudian English MacKenzie, Sankoff: A quantitative analysis of dipthongization in Montreal French
11:15 - 11:40 Eckert: Getting emotional about social meaning in variation Babel: The influence of talker race on phonetic accommodation Blondeau: Imperfect or conditional in hypothetical -si complexes in Montreal French. Individuals in their community across time Rickford, Smith: Relativizer Omission in Anglophone Caribbean Creoles, with implications for the controversy over the English/Creole origins of AAVE Comeau: Transatlantic Comparisons: Present Subjunctive Usage in Two French-Speaking Communities
11:40 - 12:05 Discussion Heiner, Baker: Accuracy and predictor variables of listeners' identification of male speaker body size, age, and ethnicity Rose: Aging voices: Social meaning and the linguistic life course Daleszynska: Constraints of variation in Bequian creole - focus on Past Tense Leumas, Dubois: Variations on a unique theme: the French language and Catholism in Louisiana
12:05 - 1:45 Lunch
  Speech perception

Phantom A 		Change in progress

Hemingway 		Place

Phantom C 		Ethnicity

Deja Vu 		Variation in French

Fountain
1:45 - 2:10 Pace: A Third Take on (ING) Yoshizumi: A Real-Time Analysis of Grammatical Development: Use of Stative Possessives Kerswill, Torgersen, Khan, Fox: Perceiving ethnicity and place in Multicultural London English Benor: Reconceptualizing "Ethnolect" as "Ethnolinguistic repertoire" Villeneuve: Word-final cluster simplification in Vimeu French
2:10 - 2:35 Staum Casasanto: What do listeners know about sociolinguistic variation? Haddican, Foulkes: Two sound change reversals in Basque Habib: A new model for analyzing sociolinguistic variation: introduction of social constraints to formal theory Hall-Lew: Vowels and Glides, Whites and Asian Americans: Variation in a San Francisco Neighborhood King, Martineau, Mougeon: Je vs On vs Nous: A Sociohistorical Analysis of Variation and Change
2:35 - 3:00 Fridland, Okamoto: Listen to me: exploring perception across a (vowel) shifty nation Mendes: Variation and Change at the Syntax/Phonology Interface: Progressives in Brazilian Portuguese Bird: "Hillbillies of Santa Barbara": The Performance of Rural Identity and Attempted Southern Speech in a California "Dirty Country" Band Szakay: Ethnic Variation in Voice Quality in New Zealand English Van Compernolle, Williams: Analyzing sociolinguistic variation in the L2 Community of Practice: Performance versus competence
3:00 - 3:15 Coffee
  Perception


Phantom A 		Change in progress


Hemingway 		Exemplar theory


Phantom C 		Consonantal variation


Deja Vu 		Lexical and discourse-pragmatic variation

Fountain
3:15 - 3:40 withdrawn Wolfram, Smith: Re-examining dialect recession: Integrating real and apparent time Hay, Walker, Docherty, Whitcombe: Talking about Old Events using Old /t/s Cui, Geda, Draucker, Schoux: "Communithy" Codes: Variation in Suburban Sydney /t/ Tsujimura: The Nature of Lexical Choice in Constructional Variation
3:40 - 4:05 Gordon, Montgomery: Show me how they talk: Perceptions of Missouri dialects Chand: Postvocalic (r) in Indian English through apparent-time and real-time analysis Guy: What's in a name? The representation of lexical items in variable grammar Ziliak, Van de Velde: Stop Variation in Dutch Purvis: Variation in the Use of Hesitation Markers in Akan Discourse
4:05 - 4:30 Campbell-Kibler, Pratt, Cook: Vowel systems in Ohio: Reality and perceptions Burgo: A Case of Grammaticalization in the Use of the Perfect for the Preterite in Bilbao Spanish Fruehwald: Evaluation and simulation of exemplar theoretic -t/-d Deletion Walker: Form, Function, and Frequency in Phonology: (t/d)-Deletion in Toronto  
4:30 - 4:55 Labov: The cognitive consequences of sound change: misunderstandings in every-day life        
6:00 Plenary #3: Expanding the Boundaries of Communities in Space and Time. "On the borderlands of communities: Taking linguistic research to la frontera." Carmen Fought (Pitzer College), "What are speech communities anyhow?" Dennis R. Preston (Oklahoma State University). Discussant: Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania)

Herzstein Hall Ampitheater, Rice University
8:30 NWAV37 Party, co-hosted by John Benjamins Publishers. Museum of Fine Arts - Houston.
Sunday, Nov 9
  Latino English

Phantom A 		Sociophonetics

Hemingway 		Language attitutes

Phantom C 		Syntactic variation

Deja Vu 		Language contact

Fountain
9:00 - 9:25 Callahan: Variable Peak Alignment in Hispanic English Van der Harst, Van de Velde, Van Hout: Regional Variation in the Formant Dynamics of Standard Dutch Vowels withdrawn Bailey, Cukor-Avila: Another Look at the Group and the Individual Friesner: Another look at /r/ in Montréal: rhotics in loanwords in Montréal French
9:25 - 9:50 Wolford: Non-standard English in the Home and the Acquisition of Vernacular English Indefinite-this by Latino Children Boberg, Fogle: Extraphonemic foreign (a) production in American English Hall: An unexpected change in Normandy and the sociolinguistics of folk-linguistic relationships between variables Haddican, Richards, Taylor: The past and present of -body/-one variation Torres Cacoullos, Travis: Convergence via code-switching? Yo and I in New Mexico
9:50 - 10:15 Newman: Fuzzy implications: The (non)dialect status of New York Latino English Baranowski: The development of nasal systems for /æ/ and /aw/ in Charleston, South Carolina Sclafani: Discourse variation in the construction of "ghetto language" communities White: Acquiring Syntactic Variation in African American English Orozco: A sociolinguistic comparison of two linguistic variables in two communities
10:15 - 10:40 Dunstan: The Use of AAVE Grammatical Features by Hispanic Adolescents in Two North Carolina Communities Callier: H%, L% and Everything Between: Phonetic and Phonological Variation in Mandarin Intonation Blake, Cavallaro, Coggshall, Erker, Taylor: New York City English: Perceptual Dialectology and Research Design D'Arcy, Tagliamonte: Who? New insights into the social life of relatives Sharma, Deo: Tense-aspect restructuring in contact situations
10:40 - 10:55 Coffee break
  Communities


Phantom A 		Speech perception


Hemingway 		Language attitudes


Phantom C 		Syntactic variation


Deja Vu 		Variation in less commonly studied languages

Fountain
10:55 - 11:20 Paauw: The Interaction between Vernacular Languages, a National Language, and Endangered Varieties: A Complex Sociolinguistic Setting in Eastern Indonesia Howald: Variation of Victim Reference in the Construction of Serial Murderer Identity Oyama: Japanese native speakers' perceptions towards the attention-getting ne: Traditional and cuteness femininities Meyerhoff, Walker: Grammatical Variation and the Sociolinguistic Monitor: Existentials on Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Austin: Acquiring Inconsistent Input: Differences in the Production of Contact-Induced Variants in Adult and Child Basque Speakers
11:20 - 11:45 Hachimi: On the adoption of gender concord norms by three ethnolinguistic families in Casablanca, Morocco Diaz-Campos, Killam: Assessing language attitudes through a match-guise experiment: The case of consonantal deletion in Venezuelan Spanish Odato, Keller-Cohen: Relevance in the eye of the beholder: How, and when, does age matter in evaluating speech? Pappas: Object clitic placement in Cypriot Greek: results from a variationist analysis Das, Subbarao: Echo-word and politeness: A socio-pragmatic aspect of South Asia
11:45 - 12:10 withdrawn Purschke: Salience - Imitation and Listeners' Judgements on German Regional Accents Bowie, Chao: The acquisition of attitudes toward language by undergraduates in linguistics courses Grondelaers, Speelman: Can careful design overcome the methodological drawbacks of grammaticality judgments? Evidence from existential sentences in Belgian Dutch Starr: Teaching the Standard Without Speaking the Standard: Variation Among Mandarin-Speaking Teachers in a Dual-Immersion School
12:10 - 12:35 withdrawn   Suárez Büdenbender: Puerto Rican attitudes towards Dominican Spanish Stovicek: Variation of the Auxiliary Verb in the Modern Portuguese Compound Pluperfect Li: The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation by Learners of Chinese as a Second Language



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