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Download (in PDF): Full programme<\/a> and book of abstracts<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jump to: Keynotes<\/a> | (Day 1) 1: Attitudes, identity, indexicality<\/a> \u2013 2: Articulatory setting<\/a> \u2013 Posters<\/a> \u2013 3: Youth<\/a> | (Day 2) 4: Dialect<\/a> \u2013 5: Linguistic structure<\/a> \u2013 Posters<\/a> \u2013 6: Perception<\/a> | (Day 3) 7: Morphosyntactic variation<\/a> \u2013 8: Prosody and cognition<\/a> \u2013 Posters<\/a> \u2013 9: Segmental variation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keynotes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Day 1, 10:30 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Christian Ilbury<\/strong> \u2013 Social media and Sociolinguistic Change<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2, 09:00 Gabrielle Hodge<\/strong> \u2013 The role of enactment in language and interaction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 3, 11:00 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Sophie Meekings<\/strong> \u2013 Talking humans in a social world: The importance of sociolinguistics to speech neuroscience<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stage presentations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Session 1: Attitudes, identity, indexicality (Day 1, 12:00-13:00)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

12:00 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Lauren Hall-Lew, Claire Cowie, Florence Dimeo, Zuzana Elliott, Jessica G\u00f6bel and Nina Markl<\/strong> \u2013 Changes in Indexicality at the End of a Sound Change<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:20 Lucy Jackson<\/strong> \u2013 The CAT’s Out the Bag: A study of real-time sound change in the socially stratified Glaswegian CAT vowel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:40 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Emma Moore and Robert J. Podesva<\/strong> \u2013 “Townies try to pretend they’re hard”: Affect and the social history of FACE and GOAT in Bolton, England<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 2: Articulatory setting (Day 1, 14:00-15:00)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

14:00 Maya Dewhurst<\/strong> \u2013 Dialect-specific pathways to vowel nasalisation in the North West of England<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:20 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Wendy Sandler and Svetlana Dachkovsky<\/strong> \u2013 Foreign Accent in a Sign Language: Insight from the RSL-accented Israeli Sign Language<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:40 Thomas Packer-Stucki<\/strong> \u2013 Reflex or Index? Using dialect poetry reading data to untangle the motivations for vowel space area style effects in the Black Country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 3: Youth (Day 1, 16:30-17:30)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

16:30 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Sadie Ryan, Emma Moore and Joe Pearce<\/strong> \u2013 ‘I want a big sign above my head saying “I’m from Libya”‘: Fitting in and standing out for young migrants in Glasgow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:50 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Madlen Jones, Kathleen McCarthy and Gwen Brekelmans<\/strong> \u2013 The influence of language environment on English speech production and perception by Somali heritage children in East London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:10 Jane Stuart-Smith, Jammer Tanner, Mridhula Murali, Polychronia Christodoulidou, Amy Smith, Lauren Taylor, Joanne Cleland and Anja Kuschmann<\/strong> \u2013 Delineating the sociophonetic variation of vowels in Scottish primary school children<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 4: Dialect (Day 2, 10:30-11:50)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

10:30 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Sarah Kirk-Browne and Devyani Sharma<\/strong> \u2013 100 years of spoken English: the Regional English Dialects Diachronic (REDD) corpus project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:50 George Bailey<\/strong> \u2013 Northern roots: Random forests and northern English dialect levelling revisited<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:10 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Faith Chiu, Ella Jeffries and Amanda Cole<\/strong> \u2013 Accent bias in UK healthcare settings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Shiguang Hu<\/strong> \u2013 New town koineisation and the effect of multiple migration waves: The case of Pingdingshan Vernacular Mandarin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 5: Linguistic structure (Day 2, 13:00-14:20)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

13:00 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Devyani Sharma, Paul Kerswill, Andy Gibson, Sam Hellmuth, Elisa Passoni, Joe Pearce and Kathleen McCarthy<\/strong> \u2013 Multicultural London English in real time: Change and stasis over 20 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:20 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc C\u00e9lia Richy<\/strong> \u2013 Covariation, implicational scales and windows of coactivation in a borderland variety<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:40 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Alice (Anis) Marikan<\/strong> \u2013 Classification and variability of the Northern Malay dialects<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:00 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Rose Stamp<\/strong> \u2013 Showing language change: Examining the sociolinguistic distributions of depicting signs in Israeli Sign Language<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 6: Perception (Day 2, 15:50-16:50)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

15:50 Anna Kai J\u00f8rgensen<\/strong> \u2013 Acoustic and perceptual measures of accommodation in interaction: Evidence from Danish<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:10 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Chris Montgomery<\/strong> \u2013 ‘She dropped her nice reading voice and her real accent came out’: What are listeners attending to when they hear speakers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:30 Brendan Regan<\/strong> \u2013 A tale of two mergers: Social perceptions of the SESEO and ROTACISMO mergers in Sevilla, Andaluc\u00eda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 7: Morphosyntactic variation (Day 3, 09:30-10:30)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

09:30 Luigi Lerose<\/strong> \u2013 At the crossroads: A sociolinguistic perspective on aspect markers in Triestine Sign Language<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:50 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Louis-Geoffrey Gousset<\/strong> \u2013 Covariation in the Tyneside English object pronoun system<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:10 Arjun Shrestha, Hannah Lutzenberger and Adam Schembri<\/strong> \u2013 The effect of linguistic and social factors on handshape choice in classifier verbs in Nepali Sign Language (NSL)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 8: Prosody and cognition (Day 3, 13:00-14:00)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

13:00 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Marc Barnard, Bronwen G. Evans and Devyani Sharma<\/strong> \u2013 Investigating the role of attention and experience in regional accent categorisation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:20 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Ang Wei Ning Shermaine and Lauren Hall-Lew<\/strong> \u2013 Reframing Depression through Sociolinguistics: Pause Duration and Social Meaning in Singaporean Women’s Speech<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:40 Xinran Gao<\/strong> \u2013 Prosodic and Social Conditioning of Non-modal Voice Quality in Shanghai Wu Chinese<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 9: Segmental variation (Day 3, 15:30-16:30)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

15:30 Scarlett L. Hart and Daniel Duncan<\/strong> \u2013 Real-Time Change in Newcastle \/l\/: Evidence from the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:50 \ud83d\udd90\ud83c\udffc Christopher Strelluf, Ayman Alrajhi, Sophie Frankpitt, Xinran Gao, Cagla Karatepe and Holly Taylor<\/strong> \u2013 Donald Trump has lowered THOUGHT for five decades<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:10 Mercedes Durham and Ianto Gruffydd<\/strong> \u2013 Realisations of \/t\/ in South East Wales: Glottals, taps and [h]s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poster presentations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Session 1 (Day 1, 15:00-16:30)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Nick Palfreyman, Luigi Lerose, Lilith Stein, Felix Stilzebach and Susanne Maria Michaelis<\/strong> \u2013 Measuring grammaticalization cross-modally: Aspect markers in Creoles and sign languages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susanne Wagner and Ulrike Stange-Hundsd\u00f6rfer<\/strong> \u2013 Oh my goodness, this thing’s fucking brilliant \u2013 On recent changes in the use of expressive intensifiers in British English<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sijie Mou<\/strong> \u2013 Reconciling Divergent Findings on Age, Gender, and Locality: Sociolinguistic Variation of Rhotacisation in Beijing Mandarin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sonja Schaeffler, Gravelle, D. C., Williams, G. P., Perschke, S. and Kempe, V.<\/strong> \u2013 Historical Shifts in Child-Directed Broadcasting: A Sociolinguistic Perspective<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan Gibson and Tom Devlin<\/strong> \u2013 Acts of Complementary Identity: an analysis of variation in pop song singing styles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucia Fraiese, Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Matt Hunt Gardner and Glenys Collard<\/strong> \u2013 ‘So we was goin’ kangaroo shooting’: was\/were variation in Australian Aboriginal English<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leendert Plug<\/strong> \u2013 ‘Unstructured’ intra-speaker variation in read speech: The case of SSBE monophthongs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lan Ni<\/strong> \u2013 Endogenous Regularization vs. Cross-Modal Contact: Typological Dynamics in the Standardization of Chinese Sign Language Lexicon (1959\u20132018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen McCarthy, Elisa Passoni and Devyani Sharma<\/strong> \u2013 Emergent varieties of London English in primary school: A longitudinal study<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Wei<\/strong> \u2013 The phonetic role of the postvocalic consonant in Old English vowel breaking<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica G\u00f6bel<\/strong> \u2013 What triggers linguistic bias against second-language accents? Examining the roles of accent strength, language, and group membership<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heba Bou Orm<\/strong> \u2013 Attitudes in context: Stereotypes in evaluations of Lebanese voices in Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hassan Hassan and Rose Stamp<\/strong> \u2013 Language Variation and Change: A Study of Border Communities in the Golan Heights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Devlin<\/strong> \u2013 Style repertoire in political discourse: phonetic variation in the speech of Jonathan Reynolds MP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cagla Karatepe<\/strong> \u2013 Sarcasm in Improvised Performance: A Socioprosodics Lens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Gibb-Reid, Hasmik Gasparyan and James Cave<\/strong> \u2013 A sociophonetic investigation into vowel realisations across singing and speech in a Middlesbrough community choir<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ciera Haggar, Sonja Schaeffler, Felix Schaeffler and Neil Kirk<\/strong> \u2013 How Vocal Characteristics Influence Listener Perceptions of Personality<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johanna Gerwin and Caitlin Hogan<\/strong> \u2013 What you saying? Enregisterment and Visibility through Community-driven Commodification of London Dialects<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liam \u00d3 h\u00cdr<\/strong> \u2013 Towards a Description of Black Hiberno-Englishes: Bricolage and the Diffusion of Features<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 2 (Day 2, 14:20-15:50)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Yvonne E Waddell and Elizabeth Lafferty<\/strong> \u2013 Sociolinguistic variation in British Sign Language: St Vincent’s sign variant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xinzi Hou and Eleanor Chodroff<\/strong> \u2013 Effects of focus condition on f0 range in Nanning Mandarin, Nanning Cantonese, and Standard Mandarin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taryn Hurley Hall<\/strong> \u2013 The status of the LOT-THOUGHT merger in Barbadian English<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Svetlana Dachkovsky, Rose Stamp, Shirit Cohen-Koka and Bracha Nir<\/strong> \u2013 What can multi-componential analysis tell us about PALM-UP and its functions in sign language across text types?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Si Berrebi and Roey J. Gafter<\/strong> \u2013 The prosodic construction of ethnicized personae on Israeli Television<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah van Eyndhoven<\/strong> \u2013 Continuity and change in the correspondence of 19th century Scottish immigrants to New Zealand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan C. McMurry<\/strong> \u2013 Ethnic Identities Expressed in Speech Production<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rob Drummond and Caitlin Halfacre<\/strong> \u2013 Phonetic parallels in Diphthong Variation in Greater Manchester: FACE and GOAT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liz Blackwell and Kirsty McDougall<\/strong> \u2013 A preliminary investigation of vowel lowering in Wellington, New Zealand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirsty McDougall, Alice Paver, Martin Duckworth, Liz Blackwell and Debbie Loakes<\/strong> \u2013 Variation in the use of silent pauses in Aboriginal and Mainstream Australian Englishes in Warrnambool, Victoria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katelyn Taylor and Kirsty McDougall<\/strong> \u2013 Misheard and Misgendered? The Accuracy of Speaker Gender Identity Attribution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Morris and Mercedes Durham<\/strong> \u2013 Mapping dialectal variation in Welsh English: Speak for Yersel – Wales!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janet Coulson, Sonja Schaeffler, James M. Scobbie and Jennifer Smith<\/strong> \u2013 Caught in the act: capturing interactional style-shifting in bidialectal speakers through improvisation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heather Turner<\/strong> \u2013 Language Attitudes in Azerbaijan: An Auditory Affective Priming Study<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ella Gregory and Bronwen G. Evans<\/strong> \u2013 Acquiring sociolinguistic competence: how 9-11-year old children in a London suburb use and perceive variation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerri-Ann Butcher and Fiona Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 Dialect acquisition in mobile speakers: FOOT- STRUT and TRAP-BATH in England<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danielle Tod<\/strong> \u2013 Tracking dialect change in London-based New Zealanders: A real-time study of variation and change in the short front vowels<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caitlin Hogan<\/strong> \u2013 OMGGG: The Social Meaning of Iconic Orthographic Variation on Social Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Jos\u00e9<\/strong> \u2013 Broadcast Standard (American??) English: A BBC Perspective<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuanmeng Ma and Rose Stamp<\/strong> \u2013 Gender and Age Effects on Turn-taking Behaviours in Israeli Sign Language<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holly Dann, Catherine Sangster and Matthew Moreland<\/strong> \u2013 Introducing Northern English Pronunciations to the Oxford English Dictionary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 3 (Day 3, 14:00-15:30)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Yitian Hong, Grace Wenling Cao, Ann Wai Huen To, Yuanlin Yang and Peggy Mok<\/strong> \u2013 Cantonese Speakers accommodate to AI and Human speakers differently<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xinyi Zhao and Bronwen Evans<\/strong> \u2013 Learning variation in a second language: Effects of listener experience and attention control on regional accent processing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shoji Takano, Ichiro Ota, Yoshiyuki Asahi and Kenjiro Matsuda<\/strong> \u2013 Changes and Constraints in Intonational Phrase Formation in Japanese: An Analysis of Spontaneous Speech from Tokyo Japanese Speakers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ulrike Stange-Hundsd\u00f6rfer<\/strong> \u2013 That was real(ly) kind of you. \u2013 On the variation of the adjective intensifiers real and really in British and American English<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seren Parkman<\/strong> \u2013 The effect of chronological age and social class on speech production<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy Alderton, Ruohan Guo, Hongzhi Wang, Xinyi Zhao and Bronwen G. Evans<\/strong> \u2013 Sociophonetic variation in Mandarin vowels and its effect on L2 English vowel production<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maisarah M. Almirabi<\/strong> \u2013 A Comprehensive Morphophonological Analysis of Diminutive Derivation in Arabic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katalin Balogn\u00e9 B\u00e9rces and Erika Sajt\u00f3s<\/strong> \u2013 New dialect formation in New Zealand Englishes: Laryngeal effects of donor dialect and substrate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chlo\u00e9 Vincent, C\u00e9lia Richy and Farida Soliman<\/strong> \u2013 Testing Hexagonal French speakers’ strategies to refer to occupations in generic contexts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caitlin Halfacre<\/strong> \u2013 Is it time to call time on RP?: Towards a renewed approach to social stratification and language variation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carmen Ciancia, Peter L. Patrick and Pasquale Esposito<\/strong> \u2013 What’s the Frequency? Evaluating lexical frequency measures over phonological and morphological effects<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alice Paver and Kirsty McDougall<\/strong> \u2013 Variation in the effect of voice quality on perceived voice similarity: what listeners hear vs. what they say<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Coombs<\/strong> – B[a:]ths and ca[\u0279]s in Wiltshire: Investigating Apparent Time Phonological Change in the South-West of England<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bartolome Diaz Martinez<\/strong> – Voices of Sheffield: Sociophonetic Perceptions of Dh-Stopping in South Yorkshire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sara Lanesman and Rose Stamp<\/strong> \u2013 Language attitudes towards variation in the Israeli deaf community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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