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D'Arcy: Language history, language synchrony, and kids these days EMU BallroomAlexandra D'Arcy

3:20pm PDT

Celebrating Undergraduate Research reception EMU Ballroom

3:40pm PDT

(A1) Rodriguez: The baptist pastor persona: A sociophonetic case study of vowel stability across a lifespan EMU BallroomShannon Rodriguez (A2) Youssef: Stance and Hyper-articulation: Vowel space expansion in Michael Savage’s stance expression EMU BallroomChadi Ben Youssef (A3) Papineau: ‘The way it be settin’ the tone’: AAE morphosyntax and musical blackface in Ariana Grande’s thank u, next EMU BallroomBrandon Papineau (A4) Conrod: Nonbinary Singular they in Apparent Time EMU BallroomKirby Conrod (A5) Clifford: Late Acquisition of Gendered Phonetics: Voice Feminization in Transgender Women EMU BallroomLily Clifford (B2) Konnelly: Brutoglossia: democracy, authenticity, and the enregisterment of connoisseurship in ‘craft beer talk’ EMU BallroomLex Konnelly (B3) Ahlers & Bohmann: Like finding that one tree in a forest: An analysis of narrative stance EMU BallroomWiebke Ahlers • Axel Bohmann (B4) Staley & Walker: Dialect coaching for sociolinguists: Insights on articulatory setting EMU BallroomVirginia Tech • Abby Walker (B5) LaMonica: Factors in an acoustical-attitudinal account of dialect perception EMU BallroomClelia LaMonica (D1) Barreda: Perceptual validation of vowel normalization methods for variationist research EMU BallroomSantiago Barreda (D2) Cieri et al.: LanguageARC: using Citizen Science to augment sociolinguistic data collection and coding EMU BallroomChristopher Cieri • Jonathan Wright • James Fiumara • Alex Shelmire • Mark Liberman (D3) Brickhouse: Diachronic change in formant dynamics of California low back vowels: an improved analysis method using the Discrete Cosine Transform EMU BallroomChristian Brickhouse (D4) Cole: Class-based, linguistic distinctions in Southeast England: the role of technology in aggregating perceptual dialectology data EMU BallroomAmanda Cole (D5) Schneier: Faster than the Speed of Lol: Examining Digital Articulatory Processes of Text-Based Paralinguistic Features in Mobile Communication EMU BallroomJoel Schneier (E2) Kapner: Snowy days and nasal A's: The retreat of the Northern Cities Shift in Rochester, New York EMU BallroomJulianne Kapner (E3) Diskin et al.: Sociophonetic variability in the /el/-/ael/ merger in Australian (Melbourne) English: Comparing wordlist and conversational data EMU BallroomChloé Diskin • Deborah Loakes • Rosey Billington • Simón Gonzalez • Ben Volchok • Josh Clothier (E4) Champagne: Where the skies are not cl/aʊ/dy all day: /aʊ/ nucleus lowering and retraction across apparent time in three rural Kansan communities EMU BallroomMatt Champagne (E5) Lee: Topic-based style shifts of North Korean refugees in sociolinguistic interview EMU BallroomJungah Lee (F1) Gilbert: An acoustic study of stylistic and contact-induced variability in Uruguayan Spanish EMU BallroomMadeline Gilbert (F2) Gradoville et al.: Cognate similarity and intervocalic /d/ production in Riverense Spanish EMU BallroomMichael Gradoville • Mark Waltermire • Avizia Long (F3) White & Roberts: Variability in the Welsh initial consonant mutation system EMU BallroomYosiane White • Gareth Roberts (F4) Hejná & Kazmierski: Even Americans pre-aspirate EMU BallroomMichaela Hejná • Kamil Kazmierski (G1) Newman & Fernández-Mallat: Usted, tú, and occasionally vos: Variation in 2nd person singular address in New York City Spanish EMU BallroomMichael Newman • Victor Fernández-Mallat (G2) Pinta: Variable gender agreement in Correntinean Spanish EMU BallroomJustin Pinta (G3) Diaz-Campos et al.: Expressing future tense in Spanish: A comparative corpus analysis of Caracas, Malaga, and Mexico City EMU BallroomManuel Diaz-Campos • Dylan Jarrett • Juan Manuel Escalona Torres (H1) Bigger et al.: From placeholder to hesitation marker: na in Quechua/Spanish bilingual speech EMU BallroomSarah Bigger • Bethany Bateman • Chad Howe (H2) Picoral: Extension of estar in monolingual and bilingual Spanish: A word embeddings study EMU BallroomAdriana Picoral (H3) Pfeiler & Skopeteas: Variation and change in Yucatec Maya EMU BallroomBarbara Pfeiler • Stavros Skopeteas (H4) Chatten et al.: “I’ve always spoke(n) like this, you see”: Participle leveling in three corpora of English EMU BallroomAlicia Chatten • Jai Pena • Kimberley Baxter • Erwanne Mas • Guy Tabachnick • Daniel Duncan • Laurel MacKenzie *Withdrawn* (B1) Namboodiripad & Yu: “If it’s a bunch of English words glued together, it’s English”: Impressionistic identification of word-origins as a way to measure language boundaries EMU BallroomSavithry Namboodiripad • Diane Yu *Withdrawn* (H5) Dollinger: Colloquialization, early mass literacy and an Emigrant Letter Corpus: the rise of 1st person will in 1830s Canada EMU BallroomStefan Dollinger

3:40pm PDT

(E1): Rankinen et al.: Apparent-time evidence of American Raising in western Lower Michigan EMU BallroomWil Rankinen • Taylor Neuhaus • Aaron Albin (I1) Murphy & Monahan: Cross-dialectal perception of Canadian Raising EMU BallroomPatrick Murphy • Philip Monahan (I2) Weirich: Perceptual categorization of regional varieties of English in Indiana EMU BallroomPhillip Weirich (I3) Lai: Visual cues facilitate talker-specific perceptual adaptation within gender EMU BallroomWei Lai (I4) Gao & Forrest: Mandarin full tone realization and perception of social personae EMU BallroomFeier Gao • Jon Forrest (J1) Ruthan: Attitudes toward Jazani Arabic EMU BallroomMohammed Ruthan (J2) Freitag: The development of sociolinguistic awareness at schools in Brazilian Portuguese and reading success EMU BallroomRaquel Freitag (J3) Maher & Edwards: Changes in attitudes toward variation in teachers of a code-switching curriculum EMU BallroomZachary Maher • Jan Edwards (J4) Levon et al.: Accent bias and judgments of professional competence: A comparison of laypeople and trained recruiters EMU BallroomErez Levon • Devyani Sharma • Yang Ye • Dominic Watt (J5) Hejná & Jespersen: Garbage language for garbage people? Linguistic integration of adult second-language learners in Denmark EMU BallroomMichaela Hejná • Anna Jespersen (K1) Garrison: Not quite Canada, definitely not California: Evidence of the Low-Back-Merger Shift in Moscow, Idaho EMU BallroomArthur Garrison (K2) Kapner et al.: Revisiting variation of elementary pronunciation in Upstate New York EMU BallroomJulianne Kapner • Theresa Kettelberger • Agatha Milholland (K3) Schlegl: That's what we do in the North: Place identity and variation in Northern Ontario EMU BallroomLisa Schlegl (K4) Reed: The Southern Vowel Shift in Alabama: Regional differentiation or ecological distinction? EMU BallroomPaul Reed (L1) Haddican et al.: The arrival of back vowel fronting in New York City English EMU BallroomWilliam Haddican • Cece Cutler • Alessa Farinella • Tsu Zhu (L2) Umbal: Filipinos front too! A sociophonetic analysis of Toronto English /u/-fronting EMU BallroomPocholo Umbal (L3) Braun: Degree of ‘Outdoorsyness’ as a Predictor of Language Variation in Central Wisconsin EMU BallroomSarah Braun (M1) Eddington & Brown: A production and perception study of /t/ glottalization and oral and glottal releases of /t/ in five US states EMU BallroomDavid Eddington • Earl Brown (M2) Papineau & Hall-Lew: Hooked on Celebri[ɾ]y: Intervocalic /t/ in the Speech and Song of Nina Nesbitt EMU BallroomBrandon Papineau • Lauren Hall-Lew (M3) Zhao: Language variation in regional Putonghua: A case study of Ningbo EMU BallroomHui Zhao (M4) Kazmierski & Urbanek: Variability in word-final /r/-vocalization in Providence: Evidence from Crimetown EMU BallroomKamil Kazmierski • Krzysztof Urbanek (N1) Kaminskaia: Speech style and rhythmic variation in two Canadian French varieties EMU BallroomSvetlana Kaminskaia (N2) Rogers & Rao: Exploring extended focus and meaning in Chilean Spanish intonational plateau contours EMU BallroomBrandon Rogers • Rajiv Rao (N3) LaCasse & Trawick: Quantity and quality: Using prosodic units to apply accountability to code-switching EMU BallroomDora LaCasse (O1) Fagyal: Observing the actuation of phonetic change through the evolution of multiethnic urban speech styles in the French media EMU BallroomZsuzsanna Fagyal (O2) Beaman et al.: Variation and change in lexical productivity across the lifespan: An interdisciplinary investigation of Swabian and standard German EMU BallroomKaren Beaman • Harald Baayen • Michael Ramscar (O3) Gunter et al.: "[s~ʃ]traight up Fourthteenth [s~ʃ]treet”: /stɹ/-retraction and social class in Washington D.C. African American Language EMU BallroomKaylynn Gunter • Charlotte Vaughn • Tyler Kendall (O4) Hirota: The rise of be going to: Evidence from beyond the living speech community EMU BallroomTomoharu Hirota (P1) Howe & Livio: Intensification in Brazilian Portuguese: muito, bem and beyond EMU BallroomChad Howe • Camila Livio (P2) Stratton: A Variationist Approach to German Intensification EMU BallroomJames Stratton (P3) Duncan: Variation in fictional dialogue: Three sources of variability in A Series of Unfortunate Events EMU BallroomDaniel Duncan (P4) Carvalho & Picoral: The acquisition of preposition+article contractions in L3 Portuguese among different L1- speaking learners: A variationist approach EMU BallroomAna Carvalho • Adriana Picoral

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