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8:30am PDT

Ciancia & Patrick: Revealing new phonological insights into (t,d) deletion: An ol’ variable unexplored in the South East of England EMU Crater Lake SCarmen Ciancia • Peter Patrick Oushiro & Guedes: Usage rates and variable rules: what changes in migrants’ speech EMU Cedar & SpruceLivia Oushiro • Shirley Guedes Esposito & Lake: How far do Pacific Northwest features spread? Evidence of prevelar raising/fronting across California EMU Crater Lake NLewis Esposito • Emily Lake

8:55am PDT

Van Herk & Childs: Stops making sense: Cross-linguistic conflict sites and the socio/linguistic constraint interface EMU Crater Lake SGerard Van Herk • Becky Childs Livio & Critchfield: A comparative account of variable number concord in Brazilian Portuguese and Mosquito Coast Spanish EMU Cedar & SpruceCamila Livio • Madeline Critchfield Peterson: The participation of women of color in back vowel fronting in Portland, Oregon EMU Crater Lake NManamaya Peterson

9:20am PDT

Mendes & Walker: The fate of unstressed vowels in Brazilian Portuguese EMU Crater Lake SRonald Beline Mendes • James Walker Bancu: Morpho-syntactic variation in a multilingual setting: how contact varieties can shed light on the structure of under-documented languages EMU Cedar & SpruceAriana Bancu Cardoso et al.: Different means to a similar end: Apparent time change in British Columbian Englishes EMU Crater Lake NAmanda Cardoso • Kaining Xu • Molly Babel • Robert Pritchard

9:45am PDT

Erker: Is lexical frequency overrated? EMU Crater Lake SDaniel Erker Abuamsha: Phonological and Morphosyntactic Variation in Palestinian Arabic: A Case of Ongoing Language Change EMU Cedar & SpruceDuaa Abuamsha Becker & Bahls: The Low-Back-Merger Shift in Port Townsend, Washington EMU Crater Lake NKara Becker • Cecilia Bahls

10:30am PDT

Wade & Roberts: Accommodation to observed vs. expected behavior in a laboratory experiment EMU Crater Lake NLacey Wade • Gareth Roberts Zaykovskaya: Remarkable LIKE in the non-native repertoire: Usage, judgments, attitudes EMU Crater Lake SIrina Zaykovskaya Bigelow: Neo-hosers up north: Locally constructed meaning and FACE and GOAT ungliding in rural Ontario EMU Cedar & SpruceLauren Bigelow

10:55am PDT

Heaton: Distinguishing native and imitated American regional accents EMU Crater Lake NHayley Heaton Zhang: Rethinking the choice of filled pause as a sociolinguistic variable EMU Crater Lake SHong Zhang Pabst: Is [nuz] really the new [njuz]? Yod dropping in Toronto English EMU Cedar & SpruceKatharina Pabst

11:20am PDT

Walker et al.: The effect of speaker-identity on dialect processing EMU Crater Lake NAbby Walker • Carla B. Fernandez • Janet G. van Hell Cukor-Avila et al.: General extenders and stuff like that in African American Language EMU Crater Lake SPatricia Cukor-Avila • Kristy Wahlert • Ashley Balcazar Neuhausen: To raise or not to raise in Pennsylvania German English in Canada EMU Cedar & SpruceMiriam Neuhausen

11:45am PDT

Austen: Pushing the envelope of variation: Listener perceptions of the TRAP/BATH split EMU Crater Lake NMartha Austen Franco & Tagliamonte: What’s going on here anyway(s)? A sociolinguistic perspective on specialization EMU Crater Lake SKarlien Franco • Sali A. Tagliamonte Wagner: Prince Edward Island – a blank spot on the (socio)linguistic map EMU Cedar & SpruceSusanne Wagner

1:40pm PDT

Bailey et al.: Affrication as the cause of s-retraction: Community-level change in Manchester English EMU Cedar & SpruceGeorge Bailey • Stephen Nichols • Maciej Baranowski • Danielle Turton Dinkin: Generational phases: The low back vowels in Cooperstown, New York EMU Crater Lake NAaron Dinkin Green et al.: The prosody and meaning of BIN constructions in African American English EMU Crater Lake SLisa Green • Kristine Yu • Ayana Whitmal • Anissa Neal • Alejna Brugos • Deniz Özyıldız Pollock: Toeing the Line: Indexing party identity through dialectal phonetic features in Spanish political discourse EMU GumwoodMatthew Pollock

2:05pm PDT

Regan: Advancing sociophonetic analysis of fricative merger(s) and split in Andalusian Spanish EMU Cedar & SpruceBrendan Regan Gratton: Vowel space peripherality as a sociolinguistic variable EMU Crater Lake NChantal Gratton Fisher: Parallel development? Two cases of perfect-to-past reanalysis in African American English EMU Crater Lake SSabriya Fisher Lake & Pratt: Stylistic curation: The use of place-based linguistic features in the construction of a personal brand EMU GumwoodEmily Lake • Teresa Pratt

2:30pm PDT

Song & Dalola: Ssssibilant or Shhhhibilant: Dialect variation in North and South Korean EMU Cedar & SpruceJiyeon Song • Amanda Dalola Stanford et al.: Pioneering a dialect shift in the Pioneer Valley: Evidence for the Low-Back-Merger Shift in Western Massachusetts EMU Crater Lake NJames N. Stanford • Monica Nesbitt • James King • Sebastian Turner Farrington: The Great Migration and the spread of a supraregional variant: Glottal stop replacement of word final /d/ in DC African American Language EMU Crater Lake SCharlie Farrington Love-Nichols: “We don’t like yer k[a:]nd”: Constructing a bigoted persona through mock redneck EMU GumwoodJessica Love-Nichols

2:55pm PDT

Brogan & Yi: Rethinking the gender paradox in El Salvador: Evidence from /s/ weakening EMU Cedar & SpruceFranny Brogan • Deborah Yi Strong & Roberts: An acoustic sociophonetic study of dialect changes in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom: A study of Vermont’s last frontier EMU Crater Lake NIsabelle Strong • Julie Roberts Akin & Kohn: The promise of a Free State: A study of archival recordings of rural African American Language in Kansas from the early 20th Century EMU Crater Lake SLynsey Akin • Mary Kohn Johnson & Becker: SO OFFENDED THIS TITLE IS NOT CAPITALIZED!: Variation and the Social Justice Warrior EMU GumwoodOlivia Johnson • Kara Becker