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Two student prizes will be awarded:

The Cambridge University Press Prize for Best Student Paper
The Charles A. Ferguson Prize for Best Student Poster


Thursday September 30th, 2004

(Workshops)

12:00

Registration / Information (until 7:00 PM)

Registration will take place on the 2nd floor of the Michigan League, in the Concourse. The Michigan League is located on the corner of North University and Fletcher.

A map of the campus, with the Michigan League circled on it can be obtained here:http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ling/nwav33/images/campus_nwav_map.jpg

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1:00-2:45

Discussion Group on Best Practices in Sociophonetics
Marianna Di Paolo

Sociolinguistics and the Undergraduate Classroom
Robin Queen

 

3:00-4:45

Fieldwork Ethics
Barbara Johnstone

The Balance of Life and Work in Academia
Anne Curzan

Sociolinguists as Expert Witnesses
Bethany Dumas, Nancy Niedzielski, and Keith Walters

4:55-6:50

Sociolinguistic Documentary Premieres:

"Present Yat1 Go3 Project" - Multilingual Hong Kong, Episode I
by Katherine Chen and Gray Carper

"Voices of North Carolina";
by Walt Wolfram and Neal Hutcheson

7:00-9:00

Plenary: 

A Brush with Particularism: Style, persona, and the emergence of a preadolescent social order 

by Penelope Eckert, Stanford University


Friday October 1st, 2004

8:00

Breakfast (until 9:45 AM)

8:15

Registration / Information (until 5:00 PM)

8:30

Publishers' Exhibition (until 5:00 PM)

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Session 1
Sociophonetics I

Session 2
Morphosyntactic aspects of language contact

Session 3
New dimension in discourse

Panel 1
Inferring Syntactic Variation and Change from Digital Corpora: Towards the Principled Comparison of Regional Dialects

Organizers:
Joan Beal, Karen Corrigan Chair: Sali Tagliamonte

8:30-8:55

Zoe Boughton
Accent variation in France: perceptions, attitudes, behaviour and the ideology of the standard

Darik Olson
A variationist analysis of lone words in mixed Spanish/English bilingual discourse: codeswitches or borrowings?

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
“Never change a winning team”: A corpus-based analysis of persistence in spoken English

Joan. C. Beal, Karen P. Corrigan
A Linguistic Time-Capsule: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English

8:55-9:20

Emma Trentman
Dialect Death in Calvert County, Maryland

Tara Sanchez
The (socio-) linguistics of morphological borrowing: A quantitative look at qualitative constraints and universals

Simon Birenbaum, Ajay Kalia
Using Catch Phrases to Model a Linguistic Network

Jenny Cheshire
Syntactic variation and spoken discourse

9:20-9:45

Rebecca Starr, Dan Jurafsky
Phonological Variation in Shanghai Mandarin

Daniel Long
Incorporation of non-Japanese Personal Pronouns into Japanese Contact Languages

Ana Cristina Ostermann
Closings without closings and forever-going closings: the continuum ordinary conversation – institutional talk in all-female institutions that deal with female victims of violence in Brazil

Leonie Cornips
The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND): Methodology, fieldwork and elicitation procedures

9:45-10:00

Break

 

Session 4
Structural variation in AAE I

Session 5
Syntactic variation

Session 6
Language and media

Panel 1 (Con't)
Inferring Syntactic Variation and Change from Digital Corpora: Towards the Principled Comparison of Regional Dialects

Organizers:
Joan Beal, Karen Corrigan

10:00-10:25

Drew Grimes
The Role of Front Lax Vowel Height in Ethnic Identification

Heidi Quinn
Possessive have and (have) got in New Zealand English

Carmen Fought, Lea Harper
African-Americans and language in the media: An overview

Andrea Sand
Angloversals? Using the ICE corpora as evidence for the effects of language contact on the morpho-syntax of English

10:25-10:50

Bridget Anderson, Jennifer Nguyen
The Social Stratification of Glottalized Variants of /d/ among Detroit African American Speakers

Stefan Grondelaers, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts
A multivariate approach to pragmatically constrained syntactic variation

Jeffrey Reaser
Revisiting the Ann Arbor Decision in Film: Wasted Decision or Educational Opportunity?

Susanne Wagner, Liselotte Anderwald
The Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED) – Applying corpus-linguistic research tools for the analysis of dialect data

10:50-11:15

Gerard Van Herk
Getting past participles to function: /t,d/ in Early African American English

Ann Taylor
Contact Effects of Translation: Distinguishing two kinds of influence in Old English

Anna Trester
Dialect Stylization in Improv: What performance data can tell us about

Panel 1 Discussion

11:15-11:40

Erik Thomas, Jeannine Carpenter, Norman Lass
A comparison of phonetic cues used for ethnic identification

Susan Pintzuk, Eric Haeberli
Reconsidering the Status of Verb (Projection) Raising in Old English

Ryan Rowe, Dennis Preston
Towards a Performance Continuum: Situating the Hip Hop Register within the Range of Self-Conscious Speech Styles

 

11:40-1:00

Lunch


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Session 7
Sociophonetics II

Session 8
Structural Changes in French

Session 9
Style and Variation

Session 10
Social aspects of bilingualism

Panel 2
The Role of Sociolinguistic Documentaries in Public Education

Organizers:
Walt Wolfram, Neal Hutcheson, Drew Grimes

1:00-1:25

Douglas Bigham
The Pin/Pen Merger in Southern Illinois English

Martine Leroux
Relics of the Canadian French past

Chris Taylor
/aw/ Variation in the Hip Hop Marketplace: Local Identities and Social Distance

Vera Eremeeva
What do women do that men don’t?: Network structure and language shift among Russian German migrants

 

1:25-1:50

Matthew Gordon
St. Louis is not part of Missouri, at least not linguistically

Shana Poplack, Nathalie Dion
The French future in grammar and speech

Sarah Benor
Second Style Acquisition

Ghada Khattab
Social influences on vowel production by English-Arabic bilinguals

1:50-2:15

Jill Goodheart
I’m no hoosier! Evidence of the Northern Cities Shift in St. Louis, Missouri

Gillian Sankoff, Pierrette Thibault, Suzanne Wagner
An apparent time paradox: change in Montreal French auxiliary selection, 1971 – 1995

Jeannine Carpenter, Sarah Hilliard
Transitioning Style: Stylistic Variation in Dynamic Conversational Settings

Elaine Chun
Negotiating the Use of Kinship Terms among Korean American Youths

2:15-2:30

Break

 

Session 11
Sociophonetics III

Session 12
Syntactic variation in language contact situations

Session 13
Gender and variation

Session 14
Acquisition of 1st dialect

Panel 3
Perspectives from linguistic anthropology

Organizer:
Judith T. Irvine

2:30-2:55

Barbra Novak
The Progression of the Northern Cities Shift in Ballston Spa, New York

Aya Inoue
Variation of past-time marker wen in Hawai'i Creole English

Rika Ito
BOKU or WATASHI?: Variation in first pronouns in Japanese young children speech

 

Susan Frekko
Tropes about Catalan and its speakers among Catalan language professionals

Judith T. Irvine
Language in a New African Diaspora

Barbra A. Meek Education, revitalization and the politics of language

Viviana Quintero Following Indexical Links: The Coding of Metapragmatic Discourses Among Quichua-Spanish Bilinguals in Otavalo, Ecuador

Panel Discussion Discussant:
Bruce Mannheim

2:55-3:20

Valerie Fridland
The spread of the cot/caught merger: A look at region and race

Bridget Jankowski
A transatlantic perspective of variation and change in English deontic modality

Charles Boberg
Region and Gender in the Phonetics of Canadian English: A First Look

Lisa Green
Production and Comprehension of Three Be’s in Child African American English

3:20-3:45

Thomas Purnell
Articulation changes over time: An implication for vowel plots

James Walker, Miriam Meyerhoff
Zero Copula in the Caribbean: Evidence from Bequia

Rose Wilkerson
Black Women’s Speech In The Mississippi Delta: A variation study of the use of African-American English

Nikki Seifert
Narratives From Developing AAE Speakers in an Interactional Setting

3:45-4:10

William Labov, Maciej Baranowski
Collision course

Rafael Orozco
The Impact of Language Contact on the Expression of Futurity among New York Colombians

Meredith Josey
The role of gender in linguistic variation and change on the island of Martha’s Vineyard: Giving way to the ‘linguistic market’

 


4:10-4:30

Break

4:30-6:30

Plenary Panel: Revisiting the Ann Arbor King Trial

Robin Thomas, Gabe Kaimowitz, William Labov, Ken Lewis, Geneva Smitherman, Ruth Zweifler

Judge Nancy Francis, Moderator

7:00-9:30

Poster Session (7:00-9:30) and Website Displays (7:00-8:30)


Saturday October 2nd, 2004

8:00

Breakfast (until 9:45 AM)

8:15

Registration / Information (until 5:00 PM)

8:30

Publishers' Exhibition (until 5:00 PM)

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Session 15
Contact among Southern Varieties of American English

Session 16
Distinctiveness through discourse

Session 17
Ideologies in the nation

Panel 4
Production of African American English in Elementary Grade Classroom Contexts

Organizers:
Julie Washington, Holly Craig

8:30-8:55

Bill Kretzschmar, Sonja Lanehart, Betsy Barr, Iyabo Osiapem, Mi-Ran Kim
Atlanta in Black and White: A New Random Sample of Urban Speech

Leonie Cornips, Vincent De Rooij
The concept of neger 'negro' in a Rotterdam youth language and culture (TheNetherlands)

Uri Horesh
Diglossia meets bilingualism: Further complications to the question of standardization in an Arabic speech community

 

8:55-9:20

Crawford Feagin
New South, New Town: Accounting for Contrasting Varieties of English in the White Community

Natalie Schilling-Estes
“We ain’t got really many words; we just say ‘em backwards”: Investigating ‘backwards talk’ in Smith Island, MD

Rizwan Ahmad
Language ideology and construction of Hindu/Hindi identity in late 19th century India

 

9:20-9:45

Bridget Anderson
Characteristics of Local Versus Global Vowel Changes: /ai/, /U/, and /u/ among Detroit African American and Appalachian White Southern Migrants

Becky Childs, Christine Mallinson
Speaker Construction of Ethnolinguistic Identity: The Use of Lexical Items to Create Difference

Wai Fong Chiang
Essentializing Chineseness and Mandarin Chinese: A Language Ideology Project

 

9:45-10:00

Break

 

Session 18
New focuses on non-urban communities

Session 19
Syntactic variation in Spanish

Session 20
Acquisition and learning

Sociolinguistic Documentaries
(Second Screenings)

10:00-10:25

Mary Rose, Lauren Hall-Lew
Linguistic variation and the rural imaginary

Miguel Aijon-Oliva
On pragmatic and discursive meanings as an explanation of syntactic variation: Two cases with Spanish clitics

Judy Dyer
“What kind of English is that?” Using metalinguistic comments to investigate a bilingual 6-year-old’s acquisition of a second English dialect

First Documentary:
"Voices of North Carolina"

by
Walt Wolfram and Neal Hutcheson

10:25-10:50

Steve Hartman-Keiser
New Amish Settlements and the Geolinguistics of Pennsylvania German

David Heap, Patricia Bayona
Social and geographic factors in variable pronoun sequences

Tonya Wolford
The Expression of Possession by Latino Children: Social Factors

10:50-11:15

Robin Dodsworth
Linguistic variation and the sociological imagination

Jonathan Holmquist
Morpho-syntactic maintenance and change: Four grammatical features in men's and women's speech in rural Puerto Rico

Walcir Cardoso
Variation in the EFL classroom: Word-final stops in Brazilian Portuguese English

11:15-11:40

Julie Roberts
Reviewing the NORMs

Manuel Diaz-Campos, Kimberly Geeslin
Copula use in the Spanish of Venezuela: social and linguistic sources of variation

Jana Boshoer, Raymond Mougeon, Katherine Rehner
Acquisition of allophonic variation by advanced L2 learners of French

Second Documentary:
"Present Yat1 Go3 Project" - Multilingual Hong Kong, Episode I

by
Katherine Chen,
Gray Carper

(Note: This film will end at 12:00 PM.)

11:40-1:15

Lunch break
Business Meeting in Frieze Building; lunch provided for those attending


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Session 21
Structural variation in AAE II

Session 22
Language attitude and perception

Session 23
Language maintenance and language policy

Panel 5
Being “White”: Constructing Ethnicity in Adolescence

Organizers:
Maryam Bakht-Rofheart, Cecilia Cutler, Tanya Matthews

1:15-1:40

Bartlomiej Plichta
Urban talkers – African American English in the Twin Cities

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
I know she can say her Gs: Conceptualizing variation in context

Rusty Barrett, Teresa Satterfield
Changing patterns of word order in Sipakapense Maya: Variation in the context of language preservation

Maryam Bakht-Rofheart
Ethnic and Social Affiliation through Linguistic Practice

1:40-2:05

Ryan Rowe
Situating the Oldest Black Town in America Within the African Diaspora: New Evidence from Plural –s Absence in Princeville, North Carolina

Laureen T. Lim, Ken N. Lacy
Expanding the Analytical Scope of the Matched Guise Technique

Naomi Nagy
Tocce g’e feje lu primaverr passà (What I did last summer – in Faetar)

Tanya Matthews
Whose nice? Adolescent girls and the identity work of niceness

2:05-2:30

Tracey Weldon
African American English and the Middle Classes: Exploring the other end of the continuum

Valerie Fridland, Kathy Bartlett, Wayne Mackey
How pleasant am I really? Competence and solidarity from a Southern perspective

Bill Haddican
Standardization, Education and Language Change in Basque

Cecilia Cutler
The Co-construction of Whiteness in an MC Battle

2:30-2:55

Simanique Moody
Gone back: What future tense markers in AAE tell us about past-occurring events

Dennis Preston
Belle's body just caught the fit gnat (Bill's bawdy jest cut the fat knot): The perception of Northern Cities Shifted vowels by local speakers

Shana Poplack, Rebecca Malcolmson, Rocio Perez-Tattam, Molly Love
Ideology vs. usage: English as a minority language

Panel 5 Discussion

2:55-3:10

Break

 

Session 24
Sociophonetics IV

Session 25
Phonological variation in Spanish

Session 26
Bilingual identities

Panel 6
The influence of variationist studies on educational policies in Brazil

Organizers:
Stella Bortoni-Ricardo, Maria Cecilia Mollica, Dermeval da Hora

3:10-3:35

Thomas Purnell, Joseph Salmons, Dilara Tepeli, Jennifer Mercer
Regional variation in American English final obstruents: Cross-generational acoustics of ‘final devoicing’

Lotfi Sayahi
Variation in the realization of implosive /s/ in Northern Moroccan Spanish

Katherine Chen
“They call me a ghost!” - Styles and social distinctiveness of bilinguals in Hong Kong

Maria Cecilia Mollica
The route from speaking to writing in the learning of standard prestige variables

3:35-4:00

Paul Foulkes
Sociolinguistic and acoustic variability in filled pauses

Rosario Gomez The assibilation of rhotics and laterals in Andean Spanish -- Who is it associated with?

Janet Fuller
Will you be my best friend?: Ethnic identity, Gender and Language Choice in a Bilingual Classroom

Dermeval da Hora
Phonological variation: Implications to the writing acquisition process

4:00-4:25

Margaret Maclagan, Ray Harlow, Jeanette King, Peter Keegan, Catherine Watson
Maori pronunciation: did it move or was it pushed?

Michol Hoffman
All for none and none for all:/s/ deletion in the Group and the Individual

Philipp Angermeyer
Who is "I"? Pronoun choice and bilingual identity in court interpreting

Stella Maris Bortoni-Ricardo
Designing sociolinguistically –based material for further education in Brazil


4:25-5:00

Break

5:00-6:30

Plenary Panel: Considering the Effects of the Ann Arbor King Trial for Sociolinguistics in Education

Richard W. Bailey, John Baugh, John Rickford, Jerrie Scott, Orlando Taylor

6:30-8:00

Break

8:00

Party


Sunday October 3rd, 2004

8:30

Breakfast (until 10:40 AM)

8:30

Registration / Information (until 12:30 PM)

9:00

Publishers' Exhibition (until 12:00 PM)

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Session 27
Language contact in the US

Session 28
Variation and sexual identities

Session 29
Sociolinguistics in the classroom

Panel 7
Variation in Second Language Acquisition in Communities and Classrooms.

Organizers:
Robert Bayley, Raymond Mougeon

9:00-9:25

Lisa Galvin, Alicia Beckford Wassink
Finding a place in Seattle: dialect contact and change in Irish-English in America

 

Jeff Siegel
Unstandardized Varieties in Education: Why little has changed in 25 years and what might be done about it

H. Douglas Adamson
A Connectionist Model of Second Language Variation

9:25-9:50

Karen Kirke
When there’s more than one norm-enforcement mechanism: Accommodation & shift among Irish immigrants to New York City

Erez Levon
Contextualized Perception: A new methodology for analyzing sexuality and linguistic variation

Kate Anderson,
Betsy Rymes

How far have we come and how’s the view from here?:
Current perspectives on AAE in a southern public school receiving growing numbers of Spanish speakers

Robert Bayley and Li Jia
Variation in Aspectual Marking by Chinese Heritage Language Learners

9:50-10:15

Richard Otheguy, Ana Celia Zentella
Contact and leveling in pronominal usage in six dialects of Spanish in New York City

Ana Cristina Ostermann, Rodrigo Borba
(Trans)gender Trouble: prostitute travestis’ manipulation of the Brazilian Portuguese grammatical gender system

Renee Blake
The Changing Faces of Race, Ethnicity and Ethnography:
Classroom (Auto)biographies as New Ethnographic Practice

Phillip Carter
Prosodic Variation in SLA: Rhythm in an Urban North Carolina Hispanic Community

10:15-10:40

Elka Ghosh Johnson
Mexiqueno? A case study of dialect contact

Lauren Lukkarila, Stephanie Lindemann
Machismo and the construction of sexual identity in a Spanish-language radio call-in show

Sarah Roberts
Language ideology in Hawai'i's schools, 1890-1945

Mercedes Durham
The people that/the people who: Relative Clauses in Swiss Non-native English

10:40-10:55

Break

 

Session 30
Variation in the lexicon

Session 31
Appropriation of AAE

Session 32
Variation and perception

Panel 7 (Con't)
Variation in Second Language Acquisition in Communities and Classrooms.

Organizers:
Robert Bayley, Raymond Mougeon

10:55-11:20

Neil Wick
Disambiguating age-grading from language change using active and passive variants

Julie Sweetland
AAVE as a Stylistic Resource in a White Speaker's Linguistic Repertoire

Paul Foulkes, Gerry Docherty, Ghada Khattab
Social-indexical variability and speech perception: an experimental study

Karen Lybeck
“It sounds fake!” The Use of L1 and L2 Variants of /r/ by American Sojourners to Norway

11:20-11:45

Alex D'Arcy
New perspectives on discourse 'like': Tracking the emergence of a grammatical feature

Mary Bucholtz
The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as European American Youth Slang

Barbara Johnstone, Anna M. Schardt, Scott F. Kiesling, Jennifer Andrus, Dan Baumgardt
Whose Social Meaning? Pittsburgh Monophthongal /aw/ in Perception and Production

Terry Nadasdi, Raymond Mougeon, Katherine Rehner
Learning and Teaching Informal Speech

11:45-12:10

Sali Tagliamonte, Alex D'Arcy
Mom said and my daughter's like: Tracking the quotative system through the generations

Maeve Eberhardt
What does it buy them?: White males' use of AAVE

Barbara Johnstone
How to Sound Like a Pittsburgher: Vernacular Normativity in Talk about Talk