NWAV 35, Columbus, OH
Conference Session Schedule

#= workshop; * = panel session; @ = roundtable discussion

Thursday, November 9, 2006

9:00am-8:00pm Registration (Governors Foyer)
1:30pm-6:00pm Book Exhibits (Congressional)

Legislative A
Legislative B
Judicial
12:00pm-1:45pm


Using ToBI to Analyze Intonation Patterns# 

Julie McGory, The Ohio State University
Using the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech# 

Laura Dilley, Bowling Green State University
 
1:45pm-2:00pm Break

Legislative A
Legislative B
Judicial
2:00pm- 3:45pm















Praat Workshop: Beyond Automatic Formant Frequency Extraction

Cynthia Clopper, The Ohio State University
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Social Theory from the Perspective of Sociolinguistic Variation

Robin Dodsworth, University of Maryland

Christine Mallinson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Appalachian Languages: Data Preservation

Facilitator: Bethany Dumas, University of Tennessee

Kentucky Phono Atlas Project
Terry Lyon Irons 

Digital Conversion of Atlas Audio Tapes
Bill Kretzchmar 

Digital Preservation and Access Issues in Southern Mountain Speech Recordings
Anita Puckett 

Data Preservation
Rachel Shuttlesworth_
3:45pm-4:00pm Break

Legislative A
Legislative B
Judicial
4:00pm-5:45pm








Towards Best Practices in Socio-phonetics (2006)#

Marianna Di Paolo,
University of Utah

Malcah Yaeger-Dror, University of Arizona

Bartlomiej
Plichta

Sociolinguistics & Linguistic Anthropology: Renewing the Connections#

H. Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles

Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara

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5:45pm-7:15pm Dinner Break

7:30pm- 9:00pm (Plenary)

Governors A/B

Sociolinguistics in the Secular World: Variation, Theory, and Observation

Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto
9:00pm Reception (Legislative/Judicial Foyer) sponsored by Cambridge University Press

Friday, November 10, 2006

8:00am-9:00am Continental Breakfast (Governors Foyer)
8:00am-6:00pm Registration (Governors Foyer)
10:30am-1:00pm; 2:30pm-5:00pm Book Exhibits (Congressional)
 
Legislative A
Legislative B
Governors A
Judicial

9:00am-10:40am


Investigating Language Attitudes

Chair: Helena Riha, The Ohio State University
Phonological Change & Variation in Spanish 

Chair:
John Lipski, Pennsylvania State University
Sound Change in Progress


Chair: Brian Joseph, The Ohio State University
American Speech in the Southern States I 

Chair: Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University
9:00am-9:25am The Cognitive Foundation of Linguistic Attitudes and Beliefs
Dennis Preston

Deletion of /r/ in Andalusian Spanish: a Usage-based Approach
Maria Carmen Ruiz-Sanchez

Unnatural Classes and Phonological Generalization in Dialect Formation
Aaron Dinkin

Social Class Distinctions Performed through Language in Northern Alabama
Catherine Evans Davies 
9:25am-9:50amEvaluating and Improving High School Students' Folk Perceptions of Dialects
Jeffrey Reaser
 
A usage-based analysis of variable trill production in Spanish
Manuel Diaz-Campos

 
Top-down and bottom-up influences in English s-retraction
Adam Baker, Jeff Mielke & Diana Archangeli
/ai/ Monophthongization on the Alabama Coast
Jocelyn Doxsey
 
9:50am-10:15amPerception vs. reality: language attitudes in an English-French contact context
Joseph Edward Price
Final /s/ Reduction in Three Dialects of Spanish
Earl Brown
 
Lexical exceptions in variable phonology
Gregory Guy

Hovering Between South and West: Houston's Merged Dialect
Elizabeth Gentry
 
10:15am-10:40am A Chinese walks into a bar...:  English Ethnonym Ideologies
Lauren Hall-Lew & Elisabeth Norcliff
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Boricua speech and new phonological variants: Puerto Rican Spanish, reggaeton style
Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez

The effects of outliers on the perception of sound change
William Labov, Maciej Baranowski & Aaron Dinkin

Redefining the South: Teenage Houstonians challenge the Southern  Shift
Andrew Pantos
10:40am-11:00amBreak
 
Legislative A
Legislative B
Governors A
Judicial

11:00am-12:40pm

Aspects of Variation in Production & Acquisition

Chair: Gregory Guy, New York University
Aspects of Variation in Mexican-American English

Chair: Teresa Satterfield, University of Michigan
Exploring Language Ideology


Chair: Jeffrey Reaser, North Carolina State University

Variation in Romance-Lexifier Creoles*

Chair: Donald Winford, The Ohio State University
11:00am-11:25amPhonological Variation in Vowel Sequences: The Role of Frequency in Phonetic Reductive Processes
Manuel Diaz-Campos & Jennifer Brondell
"Settling-Out" in Berrien County, MI: An Emerging Regional Variety of Chicano English
Jaclyn Ocumpaugh
 

I Could Not Understand a Word!: Narrating Regional Dialect
Barbara Johnstone


Language Variation in Cape Verdean Creole
Marlyse Baptista
11:25am-11:50pmMarkedness vs. Frequency Effects in Second Language Phonology: A Variable Perspective
Walcir Cardoso & Paul John
Intonational Distinctiveness of Mexican American English
Erik R. Thomas & Holly Ericson
 

Investigating the Dialogic Relationship of Language Attitudes and Speaker Design
Barbara Soukup 
Variation in the French Creoles Determiner System: The Structuring Role of Grammaticalization
Viviane Deprez
 
11:50am-12:15pmChild Acquisition of Variable (-t, -d) Clusters in Standard Jamaican English at School
Véronique Lacoste & Peter Patrick
Phonetic Variation & Speaker Agency: Mexicana Identity in a North Carolina Middle School
Phillip Carter
 
It's Just a Flow of It's Own: Hip Hop Styles, Ideology, and Intergroup Distinction
Chris Taylor

The Semantic Extension of Genitive 'de' and the semantic shift of 'se nãw' (`if not, otherwise') in Daman Creole Portuguese
J. Clancy Clements  
12:15pm-12:40pmSociolinguistics Meets Exemplar Theory: Frequency and Recency Effects in (ing)
Lukasz Abramowicz


Frequency and Phonological Variation: Evidence from Mexican American English
Robert Bayley, Brandon Loudermilk & Xiaoshi Li
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Cognitive Linguistics Meets Language Ideologies: Should Liberals Use Conservatives' Metaphors?
Laura Staum & Daniel Casasanto

Morphosyntactic Implications in Afro-Hispanic Language: New Data on Creole Pathways
John Lipski

12:40pm-2:00pmLunch Break [NWAV Business Meeting (Governors A), 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm; BYOL]
 
Legislative A
Legislative B
Governors A
Judicial
2:00pm-3:40pm



Variation in English-Lexifier Creoles*

Chair: Shelome Gooden, University of Pittsburgh
Agents of Linguistic Change


Chair: Steve Hartman-Keiser, Marquette University
American Speech in the Southern States II

Chair: William Kretzschmar, University of Georgia
Constructing & Quantifying Ethnicity 

Chair: Ila Nagar, The Ohio State University
2:00pm-2:25pmDoubly Marked Plurals in Vernacular Liberian English
John Victor Singler
 
 
Sex, Gender, and The Phonetics of Canadian English
Charles Boberg
 
Is it Dead Yet?: Re-examining Dialect Recession on Ocracoke
Kristy D’Andrea& Walt Wolfram

Ethnic Identity Construction Without an Ethnic Language: A Case of Two Migrant Communities
Vera Irwin 
2:25pm-2:50pm Variation and Change in the Eastern Maroon Creole
Bettina Migge

 
Sex Differentiation in Phonological Space and Women Leading Sound Change
Kevin Heffernan 
Can One Vowel Make the Difference? Regional /o/ in North Carolina
James Sellers

Vernacular Features in the English of NYC's American-Born Chinese
Amy Wong

 
2:50pm-3:15pmVariation in the Sources of Early Sranan - What Is it Evidence of?
Margot van den Berg
 
"We don't act like men": Girls and (ay0) in Philadelphia
Suzanne Evans Wagner
 
A Vernacular Baseline for Appalachian English
Kirk Hazen, Ashley Wise, Ross Israel & Kylie Edmond
 
Different Ways of Sounding Spanish (in English)
Michael Newman
 
3:15pm-3:40pm Revisiting 'sa' and 'o' in Sranan Tongo
Donald Winford
Lesbians as Leaders of Linguistic Change in Philadelphian English
Jeff Conn

Talking, Listening and Evaluating: A Unified Approach to Understanding the Memphis Speech Community
Valerie Fridland
"As Ethnic As We Want to Be": Toward a Quantification of Ethnicity and Language Variation
Michol Hoffman & James Walker
3:40pm-4:00pmBreak
 
Legislative A
Legislative B
Governors A
Judicial
4:00pm-5:40pm




Perspectives on the Study of Variation


Chair: Sharron Ash, University of Pennsylvania
Studies in Perception



Chair: Kathleen Currie Hall
, The Ohio State University
Aspects of Variation in Newfoundland & New Zealand English 

Chair: Paul Kerswill, Lancaster University
Aspects of Variation in North American Varieties of French 

Chair: Gillian Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania
4:00pm-4:25pmA Historical Perspective on the Study of Social Meaning
Qing Zhang

 

Cross-Language Study of Age Stereotypes in Speech Perception
Kyoko Nagao

 
Pasifika Voices: Re-examining the New Zealand Short Front Vowel Shift
Donna Starks

 
Acquisition of a Traditional Morphosyntactic Variant by Acadian French Children
Wladyslaw
Cichocki, Louise Beaulieu, Natalie Chiasson-Albert 
4:25pm-4:50pmComparing Social and Geographical Explanations of Variation
John Nerbonne

 
Perception of Sexual Orientation and Sex Typicality in Formant-Resynthesized Speech
Benjamin Munson & Lindsay Zimmerman
 
Pasifika English in New Zealand: The case of bro’Town
Andy Gibson & Allan Bell

The Diffusion of Two Stereotypical Traits of Canadian French
Michael L. Friesner
 
4:50pm-5:15pmLinguistic Markers of Diversity in Everyday Life
Julie Roberts

 
Global Talker Characteristics and Judgments of Gay-Sounding Speech
Molly Babel & Keith Johnson


Canadian Raising in Newfoundland: Exploring Sociophonetic and Sociohistoric Explanations
Rebecca Childs & Sandra Clarke
 
Spatial Diffusion of Language Practices within the Catholic Church in Louisiana
Sylvie Dubois, Emilie Leumas & Malcolm Richardson 
5:15pm-5:40pmThe Anatomy of a Sociolinguistic Interview
Rachael Allbritten



"Go to many weddings?" Situational Ellipsis in Newfoundland English
Susanne Wagner

The Influence of Missionaries on Language Shift in Historical Louisiana
Robert Connor

Poster Session (Friday, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm; Alphabetical by First Author’s Last Name) (Governors B)

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Aria Adli           On the Underestimated Role of Lifestyle: Syntactic Variation in French
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Rizwan Ahmad  Old Language, New Script: Urdu in a New Outfit                                                                                  
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Yayoi Aird         Social Factors Influencing Intonation before the Spanish Discourse Marker y
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Kate Anderson  Interdisciplinary Application of Sociolinguistic Research on Racial Speech Perception                            
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Douglas Bigham On the Fringes: Bridging Sociophonetics and Social Psychology in Southern Illinois                             
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Martin Bridge    “It’s Not Always Like This!” - Examining the UK’s Negative/Auxiliary-Contraction Strategies                    
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Vineeta Chand  Phonemes or Allophones? The Case of [v] and [w]
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Anne Charity    You People: Racial Classification of African-Americans in Sociolinguistic Analysis
·          Cynthia Clopper & Rajka Smiljanic  Regional Prosodic Variation in American English: Midland vs. South
·          Angelo Costanzo  Variable Analogical Extension of Velar Augments in Dialectal Catalan
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Holly Craig, Stephanie Hensel, Erin Quinn & Judy Nantau Students Who Speak African American English: Variations by Community
·          Boyd Davis & Margaret Maclagan Contextualisation, Formulaicity, and Situation-bound Routines in Alzheimer Talk          
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Hope Dawson    Morphological Variation in Older Poetic Texts
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Paul De Decker & Jennifer Nycz  A New Way of Analyzing Vowels: Comparing Formant Contours Using Smoothing Spline ANOVA
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Cynthia Ducar   Textbook Spanish: The Silencing of Variation in Spanish Heritage Textbooks
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Penelope Eckert, Norma Mendoza-Denton, Kathryn Campbell-Kibler & Emma Moore Elements of Style                        
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Betsy Evans      Chinese Students Perceptions of Varieties of World English: Hegemony or Hybridity?
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Dan Flynn, Jr.   It’s No Big Dill: Near-Merger in Small-Town Indiana                    
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Janet Fuller       Mother Tongue, Partner Tongue, Tongue-in Cheek: Pre-Teen Boys' Construction of Identity in a Bilingual Classroom
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Rachel Hansen & Wendy Baker The Effect of Gender on Perceptions of Indirect and Direct Speech
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David Heap & Audrey Restorick Variable Subjunctive Usage: Spanish Linguistic Atlas Data
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Terumi Imai      Is Ohio Linguistically Secure or Insecure?                                                                                        
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Bridget Jankowski  The Play's the Thing: Methodology of a Text-Based Corpus
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Paul John & Walcir Cardoso Variable h-epenthesis: An Output-Output Correspondence Account
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Brian Joseph     Analyzing Variable Outcomes in Contact Phonology: Structure, Ideology, and Bilingualism in Aromanian Borrowings from Greek
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Hyeon-Seok Kang Interlanguage Variation: Past-marking in English Compositions
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Stephanie Kelly The Grammar(s) of Glide Formation in French                               
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Tyler Kendall The North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project: Empowering the Sociolingustic Archive
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Chris Koops      'I tell you what': Between Discourse and Regional English                                                                    
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Chi-hsien Kuo   Information Status and Discourse Fuctions of Conditionals in Mandarin                                              
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Mikko Laitinen   Exploring the Role of Register Variation and Social Factors: A Quantitative Corpus-Study of Epicene Pronouns in English
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Sonja Lanehart & William Kretzschmar Ethics in Data Collecting and Interviewing   
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Carmen L. LeBlanc Plus ça change, plus c’est pareil : The Morphosyntactic Expression of Present Habitual in Quebec French
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Xiaoshi Li _____Discourse Markers in Oral Narratives by Mandarin NSs and NNSs
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Zita McRobbie-Utasi A Quantitative Approach to Analyzing Variation as a Function of Age of Arrival and Language Contact 
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Karen Miller & Cristina Schmitt Child Production and Comprehension of Morphosyntactic Variation
· __Tom Mitchell
     Eliciting Ethnicity in the Sociolinguistic Interview: Comparing Three Methods
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Nancy Niedzielski Language, Perception, and “Remarkable Times”: Using Demography in Sociolinguistic Research           
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Rafael Orozco & Gregory Guy Subject Personal Pronoun Expression in Colombian Spanish: A Preliminary Study            
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Nicolai Pharao   Intraindividual Variation across the Lifespan - A Case Study
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Ginger Pizer      Language Ideologies in Narratives of Hearing Adults with Deaf Parents                                                 
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Robert Podesva,  Jason Brenier, Lauren Hall-Lew, Stacy Lewis, Patrick Callier & Rebecca Starr Multiple Features, Multiple Identities: A Sociophonetic Profile of 
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Audrey Restorick The Acquisition of the Subjunctive in Spanish as a Third Language
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Hilary Roberts & Julie Roberts Perceptions of Glottal Stop Replacement of /t/       
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Joseph Roy       Algorithmic and Statistical Models in Historical Linguistic Data Analysis
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Tara Sanchez    On Defining the Multilingual Speech Community                             
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Edgar Schneider The 'start to doing' Construction in Earlier African American English
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Miquel Simonet Variable Realization of Word-Initial Rhotics in Costa Rican Spanish   
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  Lisa Smith ____"Dahntahn" Champs:  Identifying with the Winning Steelers and Speaking "Pittsburghese"                            
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  Hazel Steele     The Structure of Language Change in an Urban British Dialect
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  Fay Wouk ____Strategies for Complaining in Lombok Indonesia
 
 
Accepted, but Unable to Present

· __Erez Levon ___Politically Speaking: Prosodic Variation among Gay Men in Israel (Paper)
· __Roy Major____ Can Listeners Identify a Foreign Accent in a Language They Have Never Heard before? (Paper)
· _ Devyani
Sharma & Ashwini Deo Restructuring of tense and aspect morphology in Indian English (Poster)
· _ Anne Sheffer    The Use of Image Restoration Strategies in Police Field Interrogations
(Poster)
· _ Anil Singh ____Framework for Computation Processing of Spelling Variation (Poster)



Saturday, November 11, 2006

8:00am-9:00am Continental Breakfast (Governors Foyer)
8:00am-6:00pm Registration (Governors Foyer)
10:30am-1:00pm; 2:30pm-6:30pm Book Exhibits (Congressional)
 
Legislative A
Legislative B
Governors A
Judicial
9:00am-10:40am



Variation in Asian Languages

Chair: Marjorie Chan, The Ohio State University
Tackling Variation through the Use of Corpora
 

Chair: Robert A. Fox, The Ohio State University
Aspects of Variation in the British Isles

Chair: Hope Dawson
, The Ohio State University
Aspects of Discourse I


Chair: David Herman
, The Ohio State University
9:00am-9:25amThe Pronunciation of Roman Letter Words in Chinese
Helena Riha
 
Using the Corpus of Urban Palestinian Arabic for sociolinguistic analysis
Uri Horesh
 
Adolescents as Innovators
Ronald MacCaulay

 
Language Death in the Individual: Linguistic Deterioration in Alzheimer's Disease
Sharon Ash  
9:25am-9:50amLanguage Choice and Language Shift in Taiwan: Mapping and Life-scripts
Boyd Davis, Cheng Hsin-Yu, Pan Tzu-Wen & Yu Lee-jiun  
Colloquial Belgian Dutch: The Case of the "Tussentaal"
Koen Plevoets, Dirk Speelman & Dirk Geeraerts

The Expansion of 'be like': Real Time Evidence from England
Zipporah Baker, David Cockeram, Esther Danks, Mercedes Durham, Bill Haddican & Louise Tyler 
The Structure of Emotion: Constructing Distress in Grief Appeals
Agnes Bolonyai & Joseph Gilroy
9:50am-10:15amBeyond Conversation: Description of a "Public Speaking" Register of Japanese
Cynthia Dunn
 
Modelling Phonological Variation in a Mega-Database for Dutch Dialects
Frans Hinskens & Marc van Oostendorp

New Perspectives on 'was/were' Variation in London
Jenny Cheshire & Sue Fox

 
Variation in Small Claims Court: Style-Shifting versus Codeswitching in Litigant Testimony
Philipp Angermeyer
 
10:15am-10:40amCode-switching in Light Verb Constructions: (A Comparison between) Persian-English and Korean-English Conversations
Lan Kim, Panayiotis Pappas & Fereshteh Rezaeian Najafabadi


A Multivariate Analysis of Genitive Marking in Standard English Corpora
Lars Hinrichs & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi



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Innovation in Inner-London Teenage Speech
Paul Kerswill, Eivind Torgersen & Sue Fox



Differing Orientations to Face in Male and Female Teases
Clay B
utler


10:40am-11:00amBreak (Sponsored by Duke University Press and the American Dialect Society)
 
Legislative A
Legislative B
Governors A
Judicial
11:00am-12:40pm




Aspects of Variation & Use in Spanish


Chair: Angelo Costanzo, The Ohio State University
American Speech in the Northern Cities


Chair: Dennis Preston,
Michigan State University 
Ethnolinguistic Diversity & Literacy Education: Part 1-Varieties of English*# 

Chair: David Bloome, The Ohio State University
Perspectives on Style & Popular Culture 


Chair: Mary Rose, The Ohio State University
11:00am-11:25amSociopragmatic Variation: Dispreferred Responses among Mexicans and Dominicans
César Félix-Brasdefer 
Verging on Merging or Niftily Shifting?: The Low Vowels of Eau Claire, WI
Jared Balkman
 
Dialect Awareness, Cultural Literacy, and the Public Interest
Walt Wolfram


The Role of Popular Culture and the Media in Linguistic Innovation and Change
Nikki Seifert 
11:25am-11:50amLanguage Attitudes and Language Use among Puerto Ricans in Ohio
Michelle Ramos-Pellicia 

If You're 'heppy' and You Know it, Front Your /ae/
Steve Johnson

African American Vernacular English and Special Education
Amy Oswalt
 
"Makin' A Way Outta No Way":  African-American Comedic Character Construction
Jacquelyn Rahman
11:50am-12:15pmThe Vernacular in the Laboratory: The Case of Coda /r/ in Puerto Rican Spanish
Marcos Rohena-Madrazo, Miquel Simonet & Mercedes Paz
Arch Rivalry: Urban Sprawl and the St. Louis Speech Island
Matthew Gordon & Tivoli Majors

 
From da Yay to da Lou: Building upon Cultural-Linguistic Resources
H. Samy Alim & John Baugh

 
Framing Performance: Style and the Construction of Identity in Improv
Anna Marie Trester
12:15pm-12:40pmPhonological Adaptation of Borrowings in New Mexico Spanish
Jens Clegg



Changes in the Northern Cities Shift in St. Louis
Tivoli Majors


From Outside Agitators to Inside Implementers:  Improving Literacy Education of Vernacular and Creole Speakers
Angela Rickford & John Rickford
Representations of Asian English in Hollywood Films
Jung-Eun Janie Lee

12:40pm-2:00pmLunch Break
 
Legislative A
Legislative B
Governors A
Judicial
2:00pm- 3:40pm





Syntactic Variation in Spanish & Portuguese 


Chair: Michelle Ramos-Pellicia, George Mason University __
Variation & Change in Appalachia*


Chair: Beverly Flanigan, Ohio University 
Ethnolinguistic Diversity & Literacy Education: Part 2-Bilingualism*#
 
Chair: Mari Haneda, The Ohio State University
Perseptives on Language Variation & Sexual Identity


Chair: Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of Arizona  
2:00pm- 2:25pmVariation in the Expression of Nominal Possession in Spanish
Rafael
Orozco
 
On the Southern Shift in Appalachian English
Terry Lynn Irons
 
English Language Learners and High Stakes Testing
Lily Wong Fillmore
 
Negotiating Sexual Identity: Shifting Gender Marking among Kotis in Lucknow
Ila Nagar
 
2:25pm- 2:50pmLanguage-Specific Variation: Subject Resumptive Pronouns in Spanish Relative Clauses
Alvaro Cerron-Palomino

An Appalachian Family Split
Kirk Hazen & Sarah Hamilton



Cultivating Resources within: What Educators Need to Know about Heritage and Community Languages in the United States
Terrence Wiley
 
The People in the Gayborhood: Language  Crossing and Code Ownership
Brook Hefright
 
2:50pm- 3:15pmThe Loss of the 'voseo' in Chile: Evidence in Literature
Gregory
Newall

“We Talk Country”: Trajectories of African American English in Appalachia
Rebecca Childs & Christine Mallinson 
Integrating Bilingual Perspectives: Spanish in Teaching and Teaching in Spanish
Ofelia García
Beyond Cuteness: The Role of Voice Quality in Performing Stylized Feminities in Japanese
Rebecca Starr & Rebecca Greene
3:15pm- 3:40pmVariation and Change in Brazilian Portuguese Syntax: Three Related Phenomena
Izete Coelho, Sonia Cyrino, Maria Duarte & Mary Kato

Southern Shifting in a Transplanted Variety of Appalachian English
Brian José



Native American Youth Discourses on Language, Identity, and Schooling: Lessons for Literacy Education in Multilingual/Multiethnic Contexts
Teresa McCarty
Speech Characteristics of Gender-Nonconforming Boys
Laura Crocker & Benjamin Munson


3:40pm-4:00pmBreak
 
Legislative A
Legislative B
Governors A
Judicial

4:00pm-5:40pm (except Phonological Diversity, which runs until 6:05pm)

Aspects of Morphemic Variation in French 



Chair:
Michol Hoffman, York University
Outcomes of Contact 




Chair: William Haddican, University of York
Phonological Diversity in the North American Midland*
(Sponsored by the American Dialect Society)

Chair: Scott Kiesling, University of Pittsburgh
Aspects of Discourse II 




Chair: John
Victor Singler, New York Universiy
4:00pm-4:25pmA Variationist Study of 'ne dropping' in Vimeu French
Anne-Jose Villeneuve



Assessing Convergence in Contact Languages
Shana Poplack, Adrienne Jones, Allison Lealess, Martine Leroux, Chelsea Smith, Yukiko Yoshizumi, Lauren Zentz & Nathalie Dion 
More on the Pittsburgh Chain Shift
Barbara Johnstone& Scott Kiesling



 
Like, it Wasn't Invented ex nihilo
Alex D’Arcy 



4:25pm-4:50pmWhen a Vanishing Particle Fails to Vanish
Gillian Sankoff
 


Innovations in Baie Sainte-Marie Acadian French: A Situation of Language Contact
Philip Comeau
 
Getting [S]tronger Every Day?: More on Urbanization and the Socio-geographic Diffusion of (str) in Columbus
David Durian
 
That's so Tween: Intensifier Use in On-line Subcultures
Gerard Van Herk & The Ottawa Intensifier Project

4:50pm-5:15pmAnother Look at Que-Deletion
Ruth King & Terry Nadasdi



"Tu no eres calle (You ain't Street)": Rise of AAVE-influenced Spanish in the U.S.
Teresa Satterfield & Ryan Alexander

An Acoustic Study of Columbus /l/ Vocalization
Robin Dodsworth, Bartlomiej Plichta & David Durian

Standards of Type: Punctuation as a Sociolinguistic Variable in Computer Mediated Discourse
Joshua Raclaw & Lauren Squires
5:15pm-5:40pmPhonetic Variation in the Realization of Vimeu Picard Geminate Morphemes
Francisco Montaño & Julie Auger


The Third Variant: Innovation in Emergent Dialect Contact
Steve Hartman-Keiser


When Vowels Collide: The Spread of the Low Back Merger in Missouri
Matthew Gordon

 

The Sociolinguistics of a Short-lived Innovation: 'Quotative all'
Isabelle Buchstaller, John Rickford, Elizabeth Traugott, Tom Wasow & Arnold Zwicky
5:40pm-6:05pmThe Receding Heterogeneity of the Midland
William Labov
5:45pm-
7:15pm
Dinner Break
7:30pm- 9:00pm (Plenary)

Legislative A/B
Language Dynamics and Social Networks

Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern University
9:00pm The NWAV 35 Party (Governors Ballroom)

Sunday, November 12, 2006

8:00am-9:00am Continental Breakfast (Governors Foyer)
8:30am-11:00am Book Exhibits (Congressional)
 
Legislative A
Legislative B
Senate
Judicial
9:00am-10:40am




Undoing the Divide in Sociolinguistics & Ling. Anthropology

Chair: Barbara Johnstone, Carnegie Mellon University
Perspectives on Cross-Dialectal Variation 


Chair: David Durian, The Ohio State University
Variation & Change around the World  


Chair: Craig Hilts, The Ohio State University
Identity, Style & Language Attitudes in AA(V)E  


Chair: Sonja Lanehardt, University of Texas-San Antonio ___
9:00am-9:25amNew Ways of Analyzing the Sociolinguistic Interview in Sociocultural Linguistics
Mary Bucholtz
 
Same and Other Dialect Recognition: What Factors Matter?
Wendy Baker, David Eddington & Lyndsey Nay 
The Expansion of a Stereotype in a Rural Greek Community
Panayiotis Pappas
 
Here's the Situation: Developing Stylistic Variation in African American English
Jennifer Renn
 
9:25am-9:50amSocial Class, Social Status, and Stratification: Revisiting Familiar Concepts in Sociolinguistics
Christine Mallinson
The Perception of Northern Cities Vowel Shifts by Highland Southerners
Terry Lynn Irons & Trisha Edington

Tales of Two Diphthongs of an Indigenous Minority Language
Der-Hwa Victoria Rau & Hui-huan Ann Chang 
Film Media Representations of AAVE: Frequency, Indexicality, and Ideology
Lea Harper 
9:50am-10:15amCrisis Science: Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, and Usage-Based Models of Language
Norma Mendoza-Denton
 
Quantitative Phonetic Comparison of Varieties of English
Warren Maguire, April McMahon & Paul Haggerty
 
Language Revitalisation and Mäori - Young L1 and L2 Speakers
Margaret Maclagan, Jeanette King, Ray Harlow, Catherine Wilson & Peter Keegan 
Local Identity and Ethnicity in Pittsburgh AAVE
Shelome Gooden & Maeve Eberhardt
 
10:15am-10:40amStyle, Stylin, Styleshifting, and Stylization in a Postmodern Sociolinguistics
H. Samy Alim

Cross-Dialectal Differences in the Effects of Prosody on Vowels and Chain Shifting
Ewa Jacewicz, Joseph Salmons & Robert A. Fox
SV vs. VS in Spoken Arabic: Morpho-Lexical and Event-based Determinants
Jonathan Owen, Trent Rockwood & Robin Dodsworth
A Sociolinguistic Approach to Teaching Standard English
Julie Sweetland

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10:40am-11:00amBreak
 
Legislative A
Legislative B
Senate
Judicial
11:00am-1:05pm





Perspectives on Stylistic Variation & Social Identity


Chair: Galey Modan, The Ohio State University
Investigating Phonetic & Phonological Variation


Chair: Mary Beckman, The Ohio State University
Exploring Syntactic Variation in English

 

Chair: Robert Levine, The Ohio State University
Phonological & Morphosyntactic Variation in AA(V)E

Chair: Tracey Weldon, University of South Carolina  
11:00am-11:25amAdult Style Acquisition: Learning Strategies Among Newly Orthodox Jews
Sarah Bunin Benor
 
Bostonians' /r/ Speaking: A Quantitative Look at (r) in Boston
Patricia Irwin & Naomi Nagy

 
The Progressive, Stative Verbs, and Change in Canadian English
Lidia-Gabriela Jarmasz


Revisiting the constraints on copula absence in African American Vernacular English
Patricia Cukor-Avila & Guy Bailey
11:25am-11:50amTalking Preppy: Indeterminacies of style, structure and social meaning
Elaine Chun 
Are "covert" /r/ Allophones Really Indistinguishable?
Jeff Mielke & Diana Archangeli

Variation in the Functional Lexicon: The Case of Propredicate 'do'
Faye Chalcraft
 
Event Arguments and Be in Child African American English
Lisa Green, Qiuana Lopez & Toya Wyatt 
11:50am-12:15pmLeadership and Style-Shifting: Two Women's Use of (ING)
Maeve Eberhardt
 
Adopted At An Early Age: Juvenile Merger and Dialect Change
Daniel Ezra Johnson

 
There's Two Ways to Say It: Modeling Nonstandard 'there's'
Brian Riordan

 

Variation and Distribution of Expletives in Existential Constructions in AAVE
Jessica White 
12:15pm-12:40pmStyle on the Farm: Ethnography and Social Meaning
Mary Rose


 
Quantifying Diphthongs: A Statistical Technique for Distinguishing Formant Contours
Adam Baker

Her and I, *She and Me: Case, Person, and Coordination
Thomas Grano

 
Something in the "urr": Vowel Centralization Before /r/ in AAE
Renee Blake, Sonya Fix, Simonique Moody & Cara Shousterman
12:45pm-1:05pmTidewater Talk: Metapragmatic Identity Construction in Hampton Roads Natives
David Thomas & David Silvis

Microphones and Formant Estimates
Gert Foget Hansen & Nicoli Pharao



A Study in Syntactic Variation: Double Modal Constructions
Corinne Brandstetter


A Comparison of /u/- and /U/- Fronting for African American and White Detroiters
Jennifer Nguyen & Bridget Anderson