November 6-9, 2008

Workshops

Workshops will be held on Thursday 6th November in two sessions, 1-3pm and 3.30-5.30pm. Conference attendees can choose to attend a maximum of two workshops, one in each session, when registering. The cost of each workshop is $25 for early registration (up to Monday 3rd November, 7am CST). After that, workshops will cost $40.

Session 1 (1-3pm)

1-1. Workshop on eyetracking : Katherine Crosswhite pdf

1-2. Practical speech synthesis for sociolinguists: Bartek Plichta pdf

1-3. Towards best practices in sociophonetics : Marianna Di Paolo & Malcah Yaeger-Dror pdf

1-4. Methodological issues in language attitude research : Stefan Grondelaers pdf. Click here for the slides of this workshop.

Session 2 (3.30-5.30pm)

2-1. Community collaboration in the name of sociolinguistic engagement : Walt Wolfram, Jeffrey Reaser, and Charlotte Vaughn pdf

2-2. Collecting and working with conversational data : Robert Englebretson pdf

2-3. Variation analysis--everything you always wanted to know : Sali Tagliamonte and John Paolillo. pdf If you are enrolled in this workshop, you should download the software, as instructed in this linked page.

2-4. Doing Community Surveys to Document Ongoing Economic and Demographic Transformations: Findings from 27 Years of the Houston Area Survey : Stephen Klineberg