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Jump to: Keynotes | (Day 1) 1: Attitude and identity – 2: Articulatory setting – Posters – 3: Youth | (Day 2) 4: Dialect – 5: Linguistic structure – Posters – 6: Perception | (Day 3) 7: Morphosyntactic variation – 8: Prosody – Posters – 9: Segmental variation
Keynotes
Day 1, 10:30 Christian Ilbury – Social media and Sociolinguistic Change
Day 2, 09:00 Gabrielle Hodge – The role of enactment in language and interaction
Day 3, 11:00 Sophie Meekings – Talking humans in a social world: The importance of sociolinguistics to speech neuroscience
Stage presentations
Session 1: Attitude and identity (Day 1, 12:00-13:00)
12:00 Neil Fox, Marta Morgado and Adam Schembri – Changing deaf spaces, changing sign languages? Generational differences in deaf signers in England and Portugal
12:20 Lucy Jackson – The CAT’s Out the Bag: A study of real-time sound change in the socially stratified Glaswegian CAT vowel
12:40 Emma Moore and Robert J. Podesva – “Townies try to pretend they’re hard”: Affect and the social history of FACE and GOAT in Bolton, England
Session 2: Articulatory setting (Day 1, 14:00-15:00)
14:00 Maya Dewhurst – Assessing the importance of temporal variation in analyses of anticipatory coarticulatory nasalisation for British English: A case study from the North West of England
14:20 Wendy Sandler and Svetlana Dachkovsky – Foreign Accent in a Sign Language: Insight from the RSL-accented Israeli Sign Language
14:40 Thomas Packer-Stucki – Reflex or Index? Using dialect poetry reading data to untangle the motivations for vowel space area style effects in the Black Country.
Session 3: Youth (Day 1, 16:30-17:30)
16:30 Sadie Ryan, Emma Moore and Joe Pearce – ‘I want a big sign above my head saying “I’m from Libya”‘: Fitting in and standing out for young migrants in Glasgow
16:50 Madlen Jones, Kathleen McCarthy and Gwen Brekelmans – The influence of language environment on English speech production and perception by Somali heritage children in East London
17:10 Jane Stuart-Smith, Jammer Tanner, Mridhula Murali, Polychronia Christodoulidou, Amy Smith, Lauren Taylor, Joanne Cleland and Anja Kuschmann – Delineating the sociophonetic variation of vowels in Scottish primary school children
Session 4: Dialect (Day 2, 10:30-11:50)
10:30 Sarah Kirk-Browne and Devyani Sharma – 100 years of spoken English: the Regional English Dialects Diachronic (REDD) corpus project
10:50 George Bailey – Northern roots: Random forests and northern English dialect levelling revisited
11:10 Faith Chiu, Ella Jeffries and Amanda Cole – Accent bias in UK healthcare settings
11:30 Shiguang Hu – New town koineisation and the effect of multiple migration waves: The case of Pingdingshan Vernacular Mandarin
Session 5: Linguistic structure (Day 2, 13:00-14:20)
13:00 Devyani Sharma, Paul Kerswill, Andy Gibson, Sam Hellmuth, Elisa Passoni, Joe Pearce and Kathleen McCarthy – Multicultural London English in real time: Change and statis over 20 years
13:20 Célia Richy – Covariation, implicational scales and windows of coactivation in a borderland variety
13:40 Alice (Anis) Marikan – Classification and variability of the Northern Malay dialects
14:00 Rose Stamp – Showing language change: Examining the sociolinguistic distributions of depicting signs in Israeli Sign Language
Session 6: Perception (Day 2, 15:50-17:10)
15:50 Anna Kai Jørgensen – Acoustic and perceptual measures of accommodation in interaction: Evidence from Danish
16:10 Ruohan Guo and Bronwen G. Evans – Who’s listening? How perceived listener characteristics affect speaking style variations in second-language research
16:30 Chris Montgomery – ‘She dropped her nice reading voice and her real accent came out’: What are listeners attending to when they hear speakers?
16:50 Brendan Regan – A tale of two mergers: Social perceptions of the SESEO and ROTACISMO mergers in Sevilla, Andalucía
Session 7: Morphosyntactic variation (Day 3, 09:30-10:30)
09:30 Luigi Lerose – Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Aspect Markers in Israeli Sign Language (ISL) and Triestine Sign Language (TSL)
09:50 Louis-Geoffrey Gousset – Covariation in the Tyneside English object pronoun system
10:10 Arjun Shrestha, Hannah Lutzenberger and Adam Schembri – The effect of linguistic and social factors on handshape choice in classifier verbs in Nepali Sign Language (NSL)
Session 8: Prosody (Day 3, 13:00-14:00)
13:00 Gilly Marchini and Jeremy Steffman – Variety-specific F0 marking in two Mexican Spanish ethnolects
13:20 Ang Wei Ning Shermaine and Lauren Hall-Lew – Reframing Depression through Sociolinguistics: Pause Duration and Social Meaning in Singaporean Women’s Speech
13:40 Xinran Gao – Prosodic and Social Conditioning of Non-modal Voice Quality in Shanghai Wu Chinese
Session 9: Segmental variation (Day 3, 15:30-16:30)
15:30 Scarlett L. Hart and Daniel Duncan – Real-Time Change in Newcastle /l/: Evidence from the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English
15:50 Christopher Strelluf, Ayman Alrajhi, Sophie Frankpitt, Xinran Gao, Cagla Karatepe and Holly Taylor – Donald Trump has lowered THOUGHT for five decades
16:10 Mercedes Durham and Ianto Gruffydd – Realisations of /t/ in South East Wales: Glottals, taps and [h]s
Poster presentations
Session 1 (Day 1, 15:00-16:30)
Nick Palfreyman, Luigi Lerose, Lilith Stein, Felix Stilzebach and Susanne Maria Michaelis – Measuring grammaticalization cross-modally: Aspect markers in Creoles and sign languages
Yi-Ling Irene Liao – Investigating the motivations for learning Vietnamese: A case study of students at USSH, VNUHCM
Wossen Mekonnen – Challenges of Standardizing Oyda: An Endangered Omotic Language
Susanne Wagner and Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer – Oh my goodness, this thing’s fucking brilliant – On recent changes in the use of expressive intensifiers in British English
Sijie Mou – Reconciling Divergent Findings on Age, Gender, and Locality: Sociolinguistic Variation of Rhotacisation in Beijing Mandarin
Schaeffler, S., Gravelle, D. C., Williams, G. P., Perschke, S. and Kempe, V. – Historical Shifts in Child-Directed Broadcasting: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
Ryan Gibson and Tom Devlin – Acts of Complementary Identity: an analysis of variation in pop song singing styles
Pen-Ying Wang and Ailin Yen – A Comparison of meaning of the Taste term SOUR among Chinese Dialects, English, and Spanish
Melvin Ouma-Odero – Generational Language Differences in Doctor-Patient Communication: A Study of Reproductive Health Consultations in Kenya
Marta Morgado – The impact of International Sign on the daily life of the Portuguese deaf community.
Lucia Fraiese, Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Matt Hunt Gardner and Glenys Collard – ‘So we was goin’ kangaroo shooting’: was/were variation in Australian Aboriginal English
Leendert Plug – ‘Unstructured’ intra-speaker variation in read speech: The case of SSBE monophthongs
Lan Ni – Endogenous Regularization vs. Cross-Modal Contact: Typological Dynamics in the Standardization of Chinese Sign Language Lexicon (1959–2018)
Kathleen McCarthy, Elisa Passoni and Devyani Sharma – Emergent varieties of London English in primary school: A longitudinal study
Jonathan Wei – The phonetic role of the postvocalic consonant in Old English vowel breaking
Jessica Göbel – What triggers linguistic bias against second-language accents? Examining the roles of accent strength, language, and group membership
Heba Bou Orm – Attitudes in context: Stereotypes in evaluations of Lebanese voices in Australia
Hassan Hassan and Rose Stamp – Language Variation and Change: A Study of Border Communities in the Golan Heights
Tom Devlin – Style repertoire in political discourse: phonetic variation in the speech of Jonathan Reynolds MP
Dariusz Jan Skotarek – Cognitive mechanisms behind phonetic and morphosyntactic variation in Polish English
Cagla Karatepe – Sarcasm in Improvised Performance: A Socioprosodics Lens
Ben Gibb-Reid, Hasmik Gasparyan and James Cave – A sociophonetic investigation into vowel realisations across singing and speech in a Middlesbrough community choir
Ciera Haggar, Sonja Schaeffler, Felix Schaeffler and Neil Kirk – How Vocal Characteristics Influence Listener Perceptions of Personality
Busra Tasdemir – “Speaking from the Throat”: Ethnic Variation in Turkish and Its Ethnic and Historical Significance
Johanna Gerwin and Caitlin Hogan – What you saying? Enregisterment and Visibility through Community-driven Commodification of London Dialects
Session 2 (Day 2, 14:20-15:50)
Sara Lanesman and Rose Stamp – Language attitudes towards variation in the Israeli deaf community
Yvonne E Waddell and Elizabeth Lafferty – Sociolinguistic variation in British Sign Language: St Vincent’s sign variant
Xinzi Hou and Eleanor Chodroff – Effects of focus condition on f0 range in Nanning Mandarin and Nanning Cantonese
Taryn Hurley Hall – The status of the LOT-THOUGHT merger in Barbadian English
Svetlana Dachkovsky, Rose Stamp, Shirit Cohen-Koka and Bracha Nir – What can multi-componential analysis tell us about PALM-UP and its functions in sign language across text types?
Si Berrebi and Roey J. Gafter – The prosodic construction of ethnicized personae on Israeli Television
Sarah van Eyndhoven – Continuity and change in the correspondence of 19th century Scottish immigrants to New Zealand
Ryan C. McMurry – Ethnic Identities Expressed in Speech Production
Rob Drummond and Caitlin Halfacre – Phonetic parallels in Diphthong Variation in Greater Manchester: FACE and GOAT
Marc Barnard, Bronwen G. Evans and Devyani Sharma – Investigating the role of attention and experience in regional accent categorisation
Liz Blackwell and Kirsty McDougall – A preliminary investigation of vowel lowering in Wellington, New Zealand
Lauren Harrington, Jessica Wormald, Philip Harrison and Tallulah Buckley – Overcoming challenges in the automatic transcription of sociolinguistic interviews
Kirsty McDougall, Alice Paver, Martin Duckworth, Liz Blackwell and Debbie Loakes – Variation in the use of silent pauses in Aboriginal and Mainstream Australian Englishes in Warrnambool, Victoria
Katelyn Taylor and Kirsty McDougall – Misheard and Misgendered? The Accuracy of Speaker Gender Identity Attribution
Jonathan Morris and Mercedes Durham – Mapping dialectal variation in Welsh English: Speak for Yersel – Wales!
Janet Coulson, Sonja Schaeffler, James M. Scobbie and Jennifer Smith – Caught in the act: capturing interactional style-shifting in bidialectal speakers through improvisation
Heather Turner – Language Attitudes in Azerbaijan: An Auditory Affective Priming Study
Gülsen Yılmaz – Simplification in the Heritage Turkish: Competition or frequency effects?
Ella Gregory and Bronwen G. Evans – Acquiring sociolinguistic competence: how 9-11-year old children in a London suburb use and perceive variation
Kerri-Ann Butcher and Fiona Douglas – Dialect acquisition in mobile speakers: FOOT- STRUT and TRAP-BATH in England
Danielle Tod – Tracking dialect change in London-based New Zealanders: A real-time study of variation and change in the short front vowels
Caitlin Hogan – OMGGG: The Social Meaning of Iconic Orthographic Variation on Social Media
Brian José – Broadcast Standard (American??) English: A BBC Perspective
Amanda Cole – Perceptual representations of linguistic variation in Southeast England: investigating accuracy, precision and misidentifications in a dialect identification task
Yuanmeng Ma and Rose Stamp – Gender and Age Effects on Turn-taking Behaviours in Israeli Sign Language
Holly Dann, Catherine Sangster and Matthew Moreland – Introducing Northern English Pronunciations to the Oxford English Dictionary
Session 3 (Day 3, 14:00-15:30)
Nicola Nunn – Evolving Spaces: Language Change, Topographic Mapping, and Positionality in BSL
Yitian Hong, Grace Wenling Cao, Ann Wai Huen To and Peggy Pik Ki Mok – Cantonese Speakers accommodate to AI and Human speakers differently
Xinyi Zhao and Bronwen Evans – Learning variation in a second language: Effects of listener experience and attention control on regional accent processing
Shoji Takano, Ichiro Ota, Yoshiyuki Asahi and Kenjiro Matsuda – Changes and Constraints in Intonational Phrase Formation in Japanese: An Analysis of Spontaneous Speech from Tokyo Japanese Speakers
Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer – That was real(ly) kind of you. – On the variation of the adjective intensifiers real and really in British and American English
Seren Parkman – The effect of chronological age and social class on speech production
Roy Alderton, Ruohan Guo, Hongzhi Wang, Xinyi Zhao and Bronwen G. Evans – Sociophonetic variation in Mandarin vowels and its effect on L2 English vowel production
Oliver Cooney – You’ve never seen nowt like it: Nano-parametric variation in Negative Concord in Northern British Dialects of English
Maisarah M. Almirabi – A Comprehensive Morphophonological Analysis of Diminutive Derivation in Arabic
Liam Ó hÍr – Towards a Description of Black Hiberno-Englishes: Bricolage and the Diffusion of Features
Lauren Hall-Lew, Claire Cowie, Florence Dimeo, Zuzana Elliott, Jessica Göbel and Nina Markl – Changes in Indexicality at the End of a Sound Change
Katalin Balogné Bérces and Erika Sajtós – New dialect formation in New Zealand Englishes: Laryngeal effects of donor dialect and substrate
Fynn Köster – The GOAT vowel in Māori English: An analysis of intra-speaker variation
Amrik Singh – Phonetic and Orthographic Transcription of Punjabi: Challenges and Innovations in Roman and Persian Scripts
Elizabeth Eldho – ‘Indian English’ in Transition: Tracing its Non-Linear Evolution through Schneider’s Dynamic Model
Chloé Vincent, Célia Richy and Farida Soliman – Testing Hexagonal French speakers’ strategies to refer to occupations in generic contexts
Caitlin Halfacre – Is it time to call time on RP?: Towards a renewed approach to social stratification and language variation
Carmen Ciancia, Peter L. Patrick and Pasquale Esposito – What’s the Frequency? Evaluating lexical frequency measures over phonological and morphological effects
Alice Paver and Kirsty McDougall – Variation in the effect of voice quality on perceived voice similarity: what listeners hear vs. what they say