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Don’t forget your abstracts for #NWAV53! Due Sunday, June 15.
Join us in Ann Arbor, Nov 5-7 for NWAV 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice and Peace. Abstracts June 15. See the call for papers at .
#linguistics #conferences #nwav53 #nwav52
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Coming back to this place for the reach:
Join us in Ann Arbor, Nov 5-7 for NWAV 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice and Peace. Abstracts June 15. See the call for papers at .
#linguistics #conferences #nwav53 #nwav52
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Sorry to miss #NWAV52 this year! Diachronica welcomes submissions on sociolinguistics (the "change" bit of "variation and change") and we very much welcome presubmission inquiries
#linguistics #sociolinguistics
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Linguists who've recently joined might want to check out #NWAV52 posts from last weekend ☺️
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Looking back at #NWAV52 --the great papers, the lively conversations, and that moment, 2 slides in, when I realized I'd uploaded the wrong version of my presentation. Thanks for hanging in there with me, folks! Looking forward to the next one!
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Ray of hope: I assigned my undergrad sociolinguistics students to choose an abstract from #NWAV52 find a topically related article, and pose 1 question they have about the research. It's the best performance they've had on anything all semester...excellent questions all around! #linguistics
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Current and former Michigan State University students and faculty in front of an NWAV 52 banner. L-r back row: Emily Duggan, Adam Barnhardt, Dennis Preston, Jess Shepherd, Jim Stanford. L-r front row: Suzanne Wagner, Annan Kirk, Connor Bechler.
Current and former Michigan State University faculty and students at #NWAV52. Unfortunately not pictured are Becky Roeder, Monica Nesbitt, and Terumi Imani-Brandle but it was great to see them.
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Looks like my flight to Philly for #LSA2025 and #ADS2025 will also be a red-eye, just like it was for #NWAV52. 🥱😴 If they serve drinks and snacks at like 2:00am again though I'm going to throw a fit.
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Home from #NWAV52 and realising how much I miss having a ling-heavy online space. So hello! We’re gonnae try being active on here.
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For those who might be interested: it was about an experiment I created for my PhD dissertation to test the association between a linguistic variable and tense/relaxed body postures. An article in English will be published soon!
#NWAV52 #linguistics
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I've just found out people are commenting about #NWAV52 here! I'm happy I presented in the first ever session held in Portuguese!
#linguistics
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Trying to find my peeps on here after a not-so-successful attempt about a year ago. #NWAV52 seems like a good time to do do.
Has anyone created a (socio)linguists and/or general linguistics starter pack yet?
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Thank you, Miami, for a wonderful #NWAV52!
Upcoming locations:
#NWAV53 2025 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US
#NWAV54 2026 University of Montreal, Canada
#NWAV55 2027 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US
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Gooden: “prosody research is part skill, part art, but it can also lead you on a lonesome journey”. I’ve never felt so seen 😭 #NWAV52 #linguistics
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Villarreal: sociolinguistic autocoders overgenerlize patterns of variation, but there’s hope for us via better corpus management tools! #NWAV52 #linguistics
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"Does the weak-tie hypothesis hold in large data?" Mikko Laitinen & colleagues analyse social media data in Australia, US, and UK, comparing two morphosyntactic changes in progress: Yes! More of the innovative form is found among weak networks than strong ones. #NWAV52
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Rob Podesva and Emma Moore show how speakers who orient to affective personae (e.g., the anti-establishment 'chav') use linguistic variation to index affect duratively, and so are contrained in their ability to index affect in more ephemeral ways (e.g., a negatively valenced utterance). #NWAV52
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Important work by @drkatcarm.bsky.social on the importance if studying “obsolesing” language communities, and challenging ideas about what kind of speaker is considered a legitimate user of community variation #nwav52 #linguistics
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Sherman and Benheim examine the performance of Boston and Rhode Island characterological types, and which linguistic features are sufficiently enregistered to do parodic performance. #nwav52 #linguistics
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This is important:
Charlotte Vaughn and Abby Walker asked participants in accent judgement studies how they felt about participating. (We never ask this!) Turns out people are UNCOMFORTABLE. People don't enjoy judging people, but there's a tension; they want to be a good participant.
#NWAV52
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Loresco de Leon: when listeners are presented with voices attributed to speakers with “foreign names”, they are transcribed less accurately, and rated as less intelligible and more accented. Listener expectations (informed by social bias) influence actual perception #nwav52 #linguistics
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Ping Hei Yeung's #NWAV52 talk compares the vowels of speakers of Hong Kong English (HKE), depending on what variety they think they speaker: identifying with HKE totally, partially (along w/ US or UK English), or not at all. The 'totally' group differ, but in spontaneous speech not in wordlists.
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At #NWAV52, Berkeley student Rhosean Asmah presents on differences in coronal stop deletion rates and contexts in the rap vs. speech of Megan Thee Stallion #linguistics
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Rhosean Asmah's #NWAV52 methods to study coronal stop deletion (CSD) in Meghan Thee Stallion's rap and casual speech used an AI tool to strip the backing music off tracks, isolating the vocals. Sounds super impressive!
And, as usual for CSD, the results are very complex by internal constraint.
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There’s a pure joy in introducing students to people they’ve cited a million times but have never met! When I was 23 and my advisor. Renee Blake, introduced me to John Rickford, I think I literally fainted! #nwav52 #linguistics
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Fix and Blake: figures like Rachel Dolezal and Rachel Krug use #linguistic, paralinguístic, and embodied resources to perform blackness, but these choices and constructions are more complicated than surface-level ideas of appropriation #NWAV52
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