This sounds kind of over the top, but getting the chance at #NWAV51 to play the LANE 1934 recording of the guy who lived down the street from me, and go on about how amazing Bloch's 1935 dissertation is, was a dream come true. And so fun to do it with my new amazing collaborator.
Checking in on #NWAV51 attendees. I seem to have managed to stay healthy after my first conference back in person. How’d everyone else fare?
Is there a contact list for #nwav51 participants? I need to find email addresses for a couple of presenters. (Forgot to get them from the name tags or slides. Whoops!)
Since I had to cancel my talk at #NWAV51 last minute, I thought I'd link to our article on the same topic: Weak Lips? A Possible Merger of /i:/ and /y:/ in Gothenburg (Gross & Forsberg 2019) www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
I presented my new project at #NWAV51 which is about incorporating theories of both SLA and World Englishes in the study of Outer Circle English varieties like Hong Kong English. Thank you all for your valuable feedback!
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For a little shameless self promotion, here’s the Time magazine article about the work on RBG that John, Nate, and I did.
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Du, Pfiffner, Johnson: visible articulatory variation as a cue to sound change (lip rounding and lip protrusion variability in Mandarin sibilant merger)
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sorry didn't skeet thru @jofrhwld.bsky.social's talk but it was great and what a fun tool to play around w, check it out here
github.com/JoFrhwld/den...
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No need! Email received #nwav51
If anyone is in the Highlighting internal factors-session (starting 1.15pm), please would you be able to let the chair know? Worried that my email won't be seen in time... #nwav51
Preview of the latest film in the Talking Black series at #nwav51. It will be a great resource for teaching about social justice. I wish it could use it in my classes now!
Just had to cancel my #nwav51 presentation (very) last minute, I'm really not well. So incredibly frustrating.
Luna Filipovic makes a plea for psycholinguists and sociolinguists to work together more, especially on cognitive issues of bi/multilingualism.
Welcome to your first socio conference, Luna! 🥰
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This weekend has really highlighted for me that I need to get new glasses. Not sure how much is me and how much are the projectors here, but I’ve definitely been having trouble reading slides from the back of rooms. #NWAV51
Social patterning of stops in Latinx speakers show a correlation w education:
HS or less > vocational > college > grad school (highest rates in HS or less)
BUT not in the released fricatives. Instead what we see is women Latinx speakers showing higher rates of RF than men
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Latinx speakers show the highest rates of stopped DH and released fricative DH, followed by Black speakers, followed by white speakers
(Hernández also finds in Miami that released fricatives are *perceived* as more Hispanic sounding too)
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Hernández, Papineau, Tano, Velásquez, Zhang, Podesva on (DH)-stopping (there's more than 1 way to strengthen a fricative)
Data coming from the Voices of California Project
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Stray & Zellou on prevelar raising in DRESS and TRAP before /g/
No bag raising, but we do see some leg-raising to vague - but only 3 are statistically merged, all from NorCal!
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Excellent talk and recommendations! I also can't wait to read the whole paper--and share it with everyone I know 😀 #nwav51
omg I have to read her dissertation - local affiliation predicts morphosyntactic features but not phonological features?
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Slide Title: How much demographic Information might I need?
Amazing talk by Wassink (et al) about operationalizing race and ethnicity in our work. Can’t wait to read the whole paper. Here’s a summary of some of their recommendations for various different types of research:
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Pabst on Northern Maine as s transition zone: speakers are almost categorically /r/-ful
More ambiguous tokens in sentence list (compared to word list), more in speakers without secondary education, and more in older speakers
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A slide showing Adam Barnhardt, advertising his talk "Not all sound changes in progress are used in early-adolescent stancetaking", and Yongqing Ye, advertising her talk "Nasalization over time in Michigan English"
I forgot to share my plug slide, for 2 other really cool talks today using MI Diaries data!
* Adam Barnhardt on stance taking in preadolescents (10:00 in ACSM 226) -- an update from last year's project launch!
* Yongqing Ye on changing nasalization in Michigan (10:15) in ACSM 263
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icymi, I realized I didn't actually post it here - my handout from my talk is posted at bit.ly/nwav51-neopronouns #NWAV51 #linguistics - thanks to everyone who came and thanks for some really great questions and discussions, btw!!!!!
New ways of analyzing variation: watching a bunch of Han Chinese rock out to reggaeton at the bar next the hotel with @jamesshepard3.bsky.social #nwav51
"Brazilian Portuguese is the Achilles heel of every semanticist" ☠️
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Veneeta Dayal #NWAV51:
there are languages without articles, and they manage just fine, so why would there ever be functional pressure for a language to develop articles?
(typological tendency: definite articles develop from demonstratives, indefinite from the numeral one)
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LOT-THOUGHT: distinct, but not front - so Stain argues this looks like Inland North
TRAP - GORGEOUS results! Nasals stay tense, NYC tensing orals move to TRAP, resulting in a HAND-TRAP split
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Stain looks at 2 features that are distinct across these 3 dialect areas:
low back vowels (LOT + THOUGHT; are they merged?)
/æ/ tensing (NCS raising across the board vs. NYC conditioning vs. Western NE TRAP-HAND split)
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