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Tuesday, 3 September 2019
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Event
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08:00 — 09:00
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Registration
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09:00 — 09:15
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Welcome — conference opens
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09:15 — 09:45
| Performing “correct” Hebrew: Stylistic variation in reading tasks — Roey Gafter |
| 09:45 — 10:15 | Regional or Regionless? Investigating RP with privately educated speakers in the North East and South East — Caitlin Halfacre |
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10:15 — 10:45
| Can you tell by their English if they can speak Welsh? Accent perception in a language contact situation — Robert Mayr, Jonathan Morris & Llian Roberts |
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10:45 — 11:15
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Coffee break
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11:15 — 11:45
| Evaluating Lexical Frequency Measures for Sociolinguistic Variation — Ruaridh Purse & Meredith Tamminga |
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11:45 — 12:15
| Covariation in Heritage Cantonese in Toronto — Naomi Nagy, Timothy Gadanidis & Joyce Woo |
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12:15 — 12:45
| Language contact situation between Israeli Sign Language and Kfar Qassem Sign Language: A case of code-switching or borrowing? — Marah Jaraisy & Rose Stamp |
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12:45 — 13:00
| How can dictionary data be used to study language variation? — Invited talk by Catherine Sangster, Head of Pronunciations, Oxford English Dictionary, with Gary Leicester & Matthew Moreland |
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13:00 — 14:30
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Lunch and posters
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14:30 — 15:00
| When intuitions (don’t) fail: Sociosyntax in the analysis of Scots — E Jamieson, Shouchun Chien, Gary Thoms, David Adger, Caroline Heycock & Jennifer Smith |
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15:00 — 15:30
| Variation in the pronominal ditransitive in British English Twitter messages — Jonathan Stevenson |
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15:30 — 16:00
| Patterns of variation in Indonesian Sign Language: A corpus study of negative and interrogative constructions — Nick Palfreyman |
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16:00 — 16:30
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Coffee break
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16:30 — 17:00
| Sex, fights & invariant tags in adolescent narratives of personal experience — Heike Pichler |
| 17:00 — 17:30 | ‘BE LIKE’ quotatives in other languages: Pragmatic borrowings or independent developments? — Jenny Cheshire & Maria Secova
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| 17.30 — 18.30 | Plenary: Modelling sociolinguistic cognition with existing systems — Kathryn Campbell-Kibler |
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18:30 — 20:00
| Wine Reception, Senior Common Room, QMUL Queen’s Building (sponsored by the journal Ampersand (Elsevier)) |
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Thursday, 5 September 2019
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Time
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Event
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| 09:30 — 10:30 | Plenary: Urban contact dialects: A comparative view — Heike Wiese |
| 10:30 — 11:00 |
Coffee break
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| 11:00 — 11:30 | Listener sensitivity to localised accent features using the Geographical Association Test (GAT) — Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas, Peter French, Almut Braun & Duncan Robertson |
| 11:30 — 12:00 | Intersections between race, place, and gender in the production of /s/ — Jeremy Calder & Sharese King |
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12:00 — 12:30
| Ey, wait, wait, Gully! Style, stance and the social meaning of attention signals in East London — Christian Ilbury |
| 12:30 — 14:30 |
Lunch, posters, and business meeting
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14:30 — 15:00
| The Effect of Priming on Accent Attitudes: An Investigation of their Affective and Cognitive Bases — Maria Chioti |
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15:00 — 15:30
| Individuals in the crowd: The joint roles of agency and structure in sound change — Betsy Sneller |
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15:30 — 16:00
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Coffee break
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16:00 — 16:30
| Quantifying potential: Non-canonical word order through a variationist perspective — Mercedes Durham |
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16:30 — 17:00
| Standardization as Sociolinguistic Change — Marie Maegaard |
| 17:00 — 17:30 |
Conference closes
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POSTERS – TUESDAY
| “There’s a line and Sheffield is in the North”: Chesterfield teenagers’ perceptions of the North-Midland divide in England. |
Claire Ashmore
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| The distribution of the FOOT-STRUT and the BATH-TRAP splits in the East Midlands and their social meaning |
Natalie Braber & Sandra
Jansen
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‘They were canny good like’:
Variation and change in the intensifying system of Tyneside teenagers |
Joaquin Bueno-Amaro
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| The moan/mown long-mid vowel merger in East Anglia: Exploring correlations of GOAT and GOOSE variations |
Kerri-Ann Butcher
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| The intersection of /t/ glottaling and /t/ deletion in final consonant clusters | Carmen Ciancia & Peter Patrick |
| Using mobile phone data for sociolinguistic research in the 21st century: The mobile phone effect on /f, θ, ð, s, d, h/ |
Krestina Christensen, Michaela
Hejná & Mette Hjortshøj Sorensen
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| Representing grammatical similarity in comparative variationist analysis |
Jason Grafmiller
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| Perceptions of North East Scottish Speech: a perceptual dialectological study of intra-regional language attitudes. |
Dawn Leslie
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| The Effect of Accent on Judgments of Professional Competence |
Erez
Levon, Devyani Sharma, Yang Ye, Amanda Cardoso & Dominic Watt
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| NURSE vowels in Scottish Standard English – still distinct or merged? |
Zeyu Li, Ulrike Gut
& Ole Schützler
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| Hæ?: Exploring factors influencing identification and judgements of Norwegian dialects. |
Alex Mepham & Bronwen
Evans
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| Variation in discourse clicks across age and gender in Glasgow |
Julia Moreno
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| Exploring an inverted style-pattern in a peripheral community: Variation, change, and socio-indexical meaning of Anglo-Cornish dialect lexis |
Rhys Sandow
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| Defining accent features in urban Northern English vowel systems |
Patrycja Strycharczuk,
Manuel López-Ibáñez, Georgina Brown & Adrian Leemann
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| Are GOAT and THOUGHT merging in Tyneside English? Multiple methods of analysing a merger-in-progress |
Jasmine Warburton
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POSTERS – WEDNESDAY
| The role of sociolinguistic salience in speech production and perception |
Roy Alderton
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| The Effect of Precision and Context on Social Perception |
Andrea Beltrama, Heather
Burnett & Stephanie Solt
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| Dialect Continuity and Change in Sheffield English |
Johanna Blakey
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| BATH Variation amongst West Cornwall Schoolchildren: Using perceptions to understand production |
Holly Dann
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| A sociolinguistic study of “Galloway Irish”, a lasting dialect of an isolated area of south west Scotland |
Margie Ferguson
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| A Phonetic analysis of the which~witch merger in Edinburgh, Scotland |
Josef Fruehwald, Lauren
Hall-Lew, Claire Cowie, Zac Boyd, Mirjam Eiswirth & Zuzana Elliott
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| English dental fricative substitutions by Swiss L2 learners | Christine Graeppi & Adrian Leemann |
| Linguistic structure and phonetic detail in the development of new varieties: Children’s acquisition of laterals in a London-Bangladeshi community |
Sam Kirkham &
Kathleen McCarthy
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| An acoustic study of GOOSE-fronting in German-English sequential bilinguals in London, UK |
Esther
de Leeuw, Scott Lewis & Adib Mehrabi
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| Salience, noticeability and enregisterment of dialect features in Stoke-on-Trent English |
Chris Montgomery &
Hannah Leach
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| Language Variation and Change in an Italian Community Abroad |
Margherita Di Salvo
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| Making identity visible: In search of regional accents in sign languages |
Adam Schembri &
Jordan Fenlon
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| Indexicality, sociolinguistic awareness, and language change | Gareth Roberts & Betsy Sneller |
| How consistent is the Voicing Effect across English dialects and speakers? |
James Tanner, Morgan
Sonderegger, Jane Stuart-Smith & Spade Data Consortium
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| The effect of regional variation on speech processing: evidence from an eye-tracking experiment. |
Gisela
Tomé Lourido, Robert Lennon & Bronwen Evans
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| Sociolinguistic Variation on Second Language Acquisition: the influence of cultural schemata. |
Gabriela
Viana dos Santos & Jean-Pierre Chevrot
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| Testing hybrid exemplar theory in an accent recognition task |
Hielke Vriesendorp
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POSTERS – THURSDAY
