NWAV 38 Schedule of Events

The title of each presentation below is linked to a PDF file of its abstract. A PDF version of the NWAV 38 programme shown below is also available (Last Update: 13 October 2009), as well as a PDF of all of the NWAV 38 abstracts in one file (1457 KB). A University of Ottawa campus map showing where NWAV events are taking place around campus is also available.

Registration:

Thursday 10:30-5:30 SIMARD 129	Friday 8:00-2:20 TABARET rotunda	Saturday/Sunday DESMARAIS lobby
6:45-8:30 TABARET rotunda	2:45-6:30 DESMARAIS lobby

Book display:

On Thursday, books will be displayed from 11:00-5:30 in SIMARD 129. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, they will be displayed during regular session times at the location of the registration and coffee breaks on that day and time.

Thursday October 22

	ARTS 509	SIMARD 123	SIMARD 125
11:45-1:30	Workshop 1A	Workshop 1B	Workshop 1C
	Automated data extraction techniques for sociophonetic corpus research	Creating public corpora	Form-meaning co-variation in grammaticalization
	Keelan Evanini & William Labov	Bill Kretzschmar, Becky Childs, Stefan Dollinger	Joan Bybee (convener), Rena Torres-Cacoullos, Shana Poplack, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
1:45-3:30	Workshop 2A		Workshop 2B
	Towards Best Practices in Sociophonetics (2009)		A variationist playbook: Best practices in corpus constitution, exploitation, handling, analysis and interpretation
	Marianna Di Paolo & Malcah Yaeger-Dror (conveners), Anne Fabricius, Richard Ogden		University of Ottawa Sociolinguistics Laboratory
3:45-5:30	Workshop 3A	Workshop 3B	Workshop 3C
	Ultrasound for studying articulatory variation	Linguistic courses for raising reading levels in low-income schools	Using statistical tools to explain linguistic variation - A state of the art workshop for NWAV 38
	Jeff Mielke	William Labov	Sali Tagliamonte (convener), Gregory Guy, Daniel Ezra Johnson, Harald Baayen, Robert Bayley, Jen Hay, Katie Drager, John Paolillo
5:30-7:30	Dinner break
7:30-7:45	Welcoming remarks (TABARET 112)
	Allan Rock, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Ottawa
	Antoni Lewkowicz, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa
	Richard Clément, Chair and Associate Dean, Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), University of Ottawa
7:45-8:45	Keynote address
	Yo and I in New Mexico: Accounting for variation in evaluating convergence via bilingual code-switching
	Rena Torres Cacoullos, The Pennsylvania State University
9:00	Opening night reception (TABARET 112)

Friday October 23

8:00-8:30	Breakfast (TABARET rotunda)
	TABARET 083	TABARET 112A	TABARET 112B
	Dialects in contact	Language change	Morpho-syntactic variability in Spanish
	Chair: Marc Brunelle	Chair: Joan Bybee	Chair: Terry Nadasdi
8:30-8:55	Dialect contact vs. second language acquisition: Developments in the relative marker system	Patterns of linguistic change in a late modern society – different variables; different patterns	Unaccusativity and subject position in the locative alternation: ‘swarm’ verbs in Spanish
	Jenny Cheshire & Sue Fox	Torben Juel Jensen & Marie Maegaard	Roberto Mayoral Hernández
	Queen Mary University of London	University of Copenhagen	University of Alabama-Birmingham
8:55-9:20	Sociolinguistics and immigration: linguistic variation among Scottish-born and Polish-born adolescents in Edinburgh	The Transition Generation	The importance of the variable context in analyzing Differential Object Marking (DOM) in contemporary Spanish
	Miriam Meyerhoff¹, Erik Schleef² & Lynn Clark¹	Patricia Cukor-Avila & Guy Bailey	Sonia Balasch
	¹University of Edinburgh, ²University of Manchester	University of North Texas, Texas Tech University	University of New Mexico
9:20-9:45	Models of Phonological Variation for Multi-dialectal Communities: the case of L’Aquila	Language change over the lifespan revisited: Further insights from the "Up" series	Variable se Marking in Spanish Ingestive Verbs: A Quantitative Analysis
	Christopher Cieri	Shana Poplack & Allison V. Lealess	Juliana De la Mora
	University of Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium	University of Ottawa	The Ohio State University
9:45-10:10		Age-grading and vowel systems in Multicultural London English	Retraction of accusative object marking in Caribbean Spanish
		Paul Kerswill & Eivind Torgersen	Gabriela G. Alfaraz
		Lancaster University	Michigan State University
10:10-10:30	Coffee break (TABARET rotunda)
	TABARET 083	TABARET 112A	TABARET 112B
	Phonetic and phonological variation in American English	Social factors in the progression of change	Modeling the standard in French Canada (ILOB session)
	Chair: Malcah Yaeger-Dror	Chair: Gunnel Tottie	Chair: Aline Germain Rutherford
10:30-10:55	Effects of Gender and Style on Fronting and Raising of /æ/, /e:/ and /ɛ/ before /g/ in Seattle English	I swear [that] I think [that] I have! Syntax, situation and society as windows on grammar	The variable use of expressions of necessity in the spoken French of FSL university students
	Alicia Wassink¹, Robert Squizzero¹, Rachel Schirra¹ & Jeff Conn²	Alexandra D'Arcy & Sali A. Tagliamonte	Françoise Mougeon
	¹University of Washington, ²Portland State University	University of Canterbury, University of Toronto	Glendon College, York University
10:55-11:20	/uw/-monophthongization and Southern style	Developing new patterns in the speech community: a case study about fricative lenition in Brazilian Portuguese	Far be it from them: Patterns of subjunctive use amongst students, teachers and the community
	Chris Koops	Christina Gomes & Marcelo Melo	Allison V. Lealess & Shana Poplack
	Rice University	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/CNPq, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	University of Ottawa
11:20-11:45	Final (z)-devoicing in Chicano English of South Texas	Enclave, endangered, or simply stable? Explaining the Western Pennsylvania vowel system	Patterns of sociolinguistic change and situational variation in Ontario French: The case of causal conjunctions
	Robert Bayley & Cory L. Messing	Barbara Johnstone & Scott F. Kiesling	Raymond Mougeon, Terry Nadasdi & Katherine Rehner
	U of California, Davis	Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh	York University (Glendon College), University of Alberta, University of Toronto (Mississauga)
11:45-12:10	Vowel Variation in Long Island English	Real-time Demonstration of the Change from Above/Below Based on the Corpus Data: Cases of Sa-Insertion, Ra-Deletion, and Re-Insertion in Japanese	Measuring the effectiveness of proscription: possessive prepositions in French
	Ann Marie Olivo	Shin-ichiro Sano	Kimberley Miller & Nathalie Dion
	Rice University	Dokkyo University	University of Ottawa
12:10-1:30	Lunch break
	TABARET 083	TABARET 112A	TABARET 112B
	Identity and rhoticity	Dialectology	Intersecting variables
	Chair: Sonja Lanehart	Chair: Jack Chambers	Chair: Sali Tagliamonte
1:30-1:55	When regional dialect meets the standard—it's not just about accommodation	A Study of the Correlation between Phonetic and Geographic Distances in Acadian French	Intersecting variables in evaluations of men's speech
	Silvie Liao	Wladyslaw Cichocki & Louise Beaulieu	Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
	University of California, Davis	University of New Brunswick, Université de Moncton	The Ohio State University
1:55-2:20	Postvocalic (r) in Maltese English: Lingering exonormative standards in a postcolonial variety?	Dealing with ‘non-geographic’ lexical heterogeneity when deriving dialect maps from lexical data	Co-variables: Are sociolects coherent?
	Lisa Bonnici	Dirk Speelman & Dirk Geeraerts	Gregory R. Guy
	UC Davis	University of Leuven	New York University
2:20-2:45	Who sounds /r/-ful? The pronunciation of /r/ in São Paulo Portuguese	An Eleméntàry Linguistic Definition of Upstate New York	/t, d/-glottalization and vowel variation in Houston AAE
	Ronald Beline Mendes	Aaron Dinkin & Keelan Evanini	Chris Koops & Nancy Niedzielski
	University of São Paulo	Swarthmore College and University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania	Rice University
2:45-3:10	Coffee break (DESMARAIS lobby)
	DESMARAIS 1120	DESMARAIS 1140	DESMARAIS 1150
	Sound change: Short -a	Longitudinal studies of AAE	Quantitative models
	Chair: Marie-Hélène Côté	Chair: Gerard van Herk	Chair: Robert Bayley
3:10-3:35	Transmission or diffusion?: NYC-like short a in Southeast Florida and the Hudson Valley	Learning to Talk with Style: A Longitudinal Study of Style-Shifting in Early AAE	Random-effect modeling of sociolinguistic stratification
	Aaron Dinkin & Michael Friesner	Jennifer Renn	Kyle Gorman
	University of Pennsylvania, Université du Québec à Montréal	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	University of Pennsylvania
3:35-4:00	Transmission of Philadelphia short-a tensing: the changing gravity of “planets”	Trajectories of Change in Childhood and Adolescent African American English: A Longitudinal Perspective	How many speakers? How many tokens?: A methodological contribution to the study of variation
	Stefanie Brody	Janneke Van Hofwegen & Walt Wolfram	Jorge Aguilar-Sánchez
	University of Pennsylvania	North Carolina State University	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
4:00-4:25	Take the A-train and then don't!	Dynamic Parameters of Influence: Stylistic Variation during the Early Lifespan	Refining quantitative analysis using Rbrul: random effects and continuous variables
	Frans Gregersen, Marie Maegaard & Nicolai Pharao	Jennifer Renn & Walt Wolfram	Daniel Ezra Johnson, Christina Gomes¹ & Marcelo Melo²
	LANCHART, University of Copenhagen	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University	¹Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/CNPq, ²Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
4:25-4:45	Coffee break (DESMARAIS lobby)
4:45-6:15	Poster session (DESMARAIS lobby)
	(refreshments will be served)
	Heritage Language Variation and Change in Toronto	Do common donor dialects result in similar trajectories of development? A comparison of Newfoundland and Outer Banks Englishes	The Effect of Dialect Features on the Perception of “Correctness” in English-Word Voting Patterns on Forvo.com
	Naomi Nagy¹, James Walker², Alexei Kochetov¹ & Yoonjung Kang¹	Jennifer Thorburn	Jessica Grieser
	¹University of Toronto, ²York University	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Georgetown University
	“It’s not that big (of) a deal”: a change in progress in the syntactic variation of post-adjectival degree constructions	African American English Features Produced by Dialect Shifting and non-Shifting Students	Linguistic Variation and Change in Atlanta, Georgia
	Anastasia Nylund & Corinne Seals	Holly Craig & Stephanie Hensel	Hilary Prichard
	Georgetown University	University of Michigan	University of Pennsylvania
	A 'youth' variety or long-term language change? An investigation of a multiracial vernacular	The impact of dialect contact on language attitudes	Imitation and the Perception of Variation
	Sue Fox & Jenny Cheshire	Matthew J. Gordon & Court Montgomery	Elizabeth Brunner
	Queen Mary University of London	University of Missouri	Rice University
	The variable development of /s/+consonant onset clusters in Farsi-English interlanguage	The rise of TU in the context of an internal reconfiguration of generic pronouns in Quebec and in France	Local Spoken Here: The Phonology of Oregon English
	Malik Boudaoud & Walcir Cardoso	Hélène Blondeau & Jingya Zhong	John Riebold
	University of Concordia	University of Florida	York University
	Variable rule analysis: are there any competitors?	Non-Standard Plurals in Peninsular Spanish Dialects	Wedge-raising and fronting in the Inland South
	Roeland van Hout	David Heap¹, Enrique Pato² & Valérie Rosser¹	Rebecca Greene
	Radboud University Nijmegen	¹University of Western Ontario, ²Université de Montréal	Stanford University
	The genetic affiliation of African American Language	La variation du schwa dans les clitiques chez les francophones de Windsor	Using acoustic trajectory information in studies of merger
	Charles DeBose	Valérie Rosser	Michael Scanlon & Alicia Beckford Wassink
	California State University East Bay	University of Western Ontario	University of Washington
	Representations of Blackness by White Women: Linguistic Practice in the Community versus The Media	Inter-dependency in linguistic data from one speaker: Assessing competing statistical models	An investigation of the stylistic role of final stop release in Washington, DC, metalinguistic discourse
	Sonya Fix	Joseph Roy	Anastasia Nylund
	New York University	University of Ottawa	Georgetown University
	Apparent time change in Bequia creole. Evidence for dialect leveling	Syneresis, dieresis and preceding onsets: glide formation in continental French	Parents do matter in dialect acquisition: Evidence from the Kansai dialect of Japanese
	Agata Daleszynska	Stephanie Kelly	Akiko Takemura
	University of Edinburgh	University of Western Ontario/Université de Toulouse II-Le mirail	Kobe University, Japan
	Constructions of Local and Non-Local Identity in Canadian Hip Hop Lyrics	Variable adaptation of Spanish loanwords in Nahuatl	The Social Stratification of the voiced interdental in the Battery Dialect of Newfoundland
	Jessica Spieker	Marcela San Giacomo & Sharon Peperkamp	Maia Williamson & Walcir Cardoso
	University of Western Ontario	Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris	Concordia University
	Language Variation as an identity construct among Year Abroad Speakers of French	Cognitive Capacities of the Sociolinguistic Monitor: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials	Effects of experience and native variety in non-native vowel perception
	Isabelle Lemee	Brandon Loudermilk, Eva Gutierrez & David Corina	Irina Marinescu
	St-Patrick's College Drumcondra, Ireland	University of California, Davis	University of Toronto, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
	The production of Catalan mid-back vowels by Catalan-Spanish bilinguals	Introducing the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE): Methods, Data and Applications	Sounding “in” while blending in: phonetic reflexes of peer-group affiliation in a working-class suburb of Paris
	Miquel Simonet	Karen Corrigan & Isabelle Buchstaller	Zsuzsanna Fagyal
	University of Arizona	Newcastle University, UK	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	Analyzing patterns of glottalization in German stops		It’s (not) diffusing, innit?: The origins of innit? in British English
	Elke Philburn		Heike Pichler & Eivind Torgersen
	University of Manchester		University of Reading, Lancaster University
6:30-8:15	Plenary Panel (TABARET 112)
	Before there were corpora: the Montréal French Project in the early days of sociolinguistics
	The "Montréal Group": Henrietta J. Cedergren (UQAM) David Sankoff (U. Ottawa), Gillian Sankoff (U. Pennsylvania), Suzanne Laberge (U. Montréal), Pierrette Thibault (U. Montréal)
8:30	(Unofficial) Grad student gathering (The Draft Pub - SPORTS COMPLEX)
	(Free pizza, full menu available, specials on drinks)

Saturday October 24

8:00-8:30	Breakfast (DESMARAIS lobby)
	DESMARAIS 1120	DESMARAIS 1140	DESMARAIS 1150
	Constructing identity	Attitudes and perception	Morphosyntactic change
	Chair: Sandra Clarke	Chair: Dennis Preston	Chair: Myriam Meyerhoff
8:30-8:55	Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: Evidence from North America	Rapid intergenerational change of linguistic attitudes and implications for revitalization in Valencia	That which survives? Relatives in written and formal spoken Canadian English
	Tyler Kendall	Raquel Casesnoves Ferrer & David Sankoff	Bridget Jankowski
	Northwestern University & North Carolina State University	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Ottawa	University of Toronto
8:55-9:20	Stop Signs: The Intersection of Interdental Fricatives and Identity in Newfoundland	News Speak: Phonetic Variation in Broadcast Journalism Education and Expectation	The Expression of Futurity by New York Puerto Ricans
	Becky Childs¹, Paul DeDecker², Rachel Deal², Tyler Kendall³, Jennifer Thorburn², Maia Williamson⁴ & Gerard Van Herk²	Christopher Strelluf	Rafael Orozco & Alejandro Cortazar
	¹Coastal Carolina University, ²Memorial University of Newfoundland, ³Northwestern University, ⁴Condordia University	University of Missouri	Louisiana State University
9:20-9:45	Queer youth in the speech community Enriching large scale studies of variation and change	"He's so smart!": Testing listener perceptions of phrase-final pauses and speaker style in university discourse	A real-time study of future temporal reference in spoken Ontarian French
	Sali A. Tagliamonte & Dylan J. Uscher	Katherine Geenberg	Rick Grimm
	University of Toronto	Stanford University	York University
9:45-10:10		Do speech evaluation scales in a speaker evaluation experiment trigger conscious or subconscious attitudes?	On the variable use of subjunctive mood in Portuguese: a trend study
		Stefan Grondelaers & Roeland Van Hout	Dinah Callou & Erica Almeida
		Radboud University Nijmegen	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/CNPq
10:10-10:30	Coffee break (DESMARAIS lobby)
	DESMARAIS 1120	DESMARAIS 1140	DESMARAIS 1150
	Sound change	Manifestations of bilingualism: Code-switching and borrowing	Syntactic variability
	Chair: André Lapierre	Chair: Sylvie Dubois	Chair: Joan Maling
10:30-10:55	/s/-deletion and the preservation of plurality in Modern Occitan	Modeling Trilingual Code-switching and Borrowing: The Status of English and French-origin Bare Items in Vietnamese	Information structure as a source of syntactic variation in an emerging German dialect
	Laurel MacKenzie	Sabine Huynh	Ulrike Freywald, Katharina Mayr, Kerstin Paul, Kathleen Schumann & Heike Wiese
	University of Pennsylvania	University of Ottawa	University of Potsdam, Germany
10:55-11:20	Purely a chain shift?: An exploration of "Canadian Shift" in the US Midland	Internal and external correlates of the integration of English- and Spanish-origin loanwords in Montréal French	Adding and Subtracting Variation: Resumptive Pronouns and Prepositional Phrase Chopping in Spanish
	David Durian	Michael L. Friesner	Alvaro Cerrón-Palomino
	The Ohio State University	Université du Québec à Montréal	Arizona State University
11:20-11:45	Chain shift advancement by children	The syntax and prosody of codeswitching in New Mexican Spanish-English discourse	A syntactic approach to variable number marking in Afro-Bolivian Spanish
	Emily Sadlier-Brown	Evelyn Durán Urrea	Sandro Sessarego & Manuel Delicado-Cantero
	McGill University	The Pennsylvania State University	Ohio State University, Swarthmore College
11:45-12:10	A diachronic study of monophthongization in Washington, DC	Variation in the Code-Mixing Behavior of Bimodal Bilinguals	Verb order, object position, and focus in Old English
	Jermay Jamsu, Patrick Callier & Jinsok Lee	Ginger Pizer	Ann Taylor & Susan Pintzuk
	Georgetown University	Mississippi State University	University of York
12:10-1:30	Lunch break
	DESMARAIS 1120	DESMARAIS 1140	DESMARAIS 1150
	Maintaining ethnic identity	Perception	Contact-induced change
	Chair: Walt Wolfram	Chair: Barbara Johnstone	Chair: Raymond Mougeon
1:30-1:55	Signing Outside the Box: The Size of Signing Space in Black ASL	The Influence of Regional Vowel Shifts on Front Vowel Perception	Verb second effects in Old French: a result of contact-induced or language-internal change?
	Joseph Hill¹, Carolyn McCaskill¹, Ceil Lucas¹ & Robert Bayley²	Valerie Fridland & Sohei Okamoto	Martin Elsig
	¹Gallaudet University, ²University of California, Davis	University of Nevada, Reno	University of Hamburg
1:55-2:20	Is C[ø›]ffee T[ø›]lk L[ø›]st? BOUGHT-raising on Manhattan’s Lower East Side	The Perception of Oklahoma Speech	Rhythm and Language Contact in Ontario French
	Kara Becker	Dennis Preston & Jon Bakos	Jeff Tennant
	New York University	Oklahoma State University	University of Western Ontario
2:20-2:45	The Persistence of Ethnic Identity in Montreal English	Perceived sexual orientation and gender normativity: What do gay men, nerds, and female-to-male transsexuals have in common?	Translation effects as evidence in language contact studies: The case of variable subject pronouns in NYC Spanish
	Charles Boberg	Lal Zimman	Philipp Angermeyer
	McGill University	University of Colorado, Boulder	York University
2:45-3:10	Rethinking AAE research: The use of postvocalic /r/ by two groups of black New Yorkers	Mapping Production and Perception in Regional Vowel Shifts: The Effects of Vowel Duration and Formant Trajectories	Variable Pronominal Use in Colombian Spanish: ¿Qué Pasa en Nueva York?
	Renée Blake, Cara Shousterman & Lindsay Kelley	Valerie Fridland & Tyler Kendall	Rafael Orozco
	New York University	University of Nevada, Reno, Northwestern University	Louisiana State University
3:10-3:30	Coffee break (DESMARAIS lobby)
	DESMARAIS 1120	DESMARAIS 1140	DESMARAIS 1150
	Ethnic minorities and sound change	Grammaticalization	Morpho-syntactic variability
	Chair: Doug Walker	Chair: James Walker	Chair: Susan Pintzuk
3:30-3:55	Back Vowel Fronting in Pittsburgh AAE	Tracking the constraints on a grammaticalizing perfect(ive)	Perceptual vs. grammatical constraints and social factors in subject-verb agreement in Brazilian Portuguese
	Maeve Eberhardt	Mary T. Copple	Maria Marta Pereira Scherre & Anthony J. Naro
	University of Vermont	Kansas State University	Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
3:55-4:20	Urban and Rural AAE Vowels in North Carolina: A Supra-Regional Shift and Regional Accommodation	Following the lead: contextual generalization of continuative constructions in Modern Spanish	Syntax, information structure and social variation: The case of Spanish subject personal pronouns
	Robin Dodsworth & Mary Kohn	Jessi Elana Aaron & Maria Fionda	Aria Adli
	North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina	University of Florida	University of Hamburg
4:20-4:45	Apparent-Time Low Vowels among Mexican-Americans and Anglos in Austin, Texas	'You hear it on the telly and that': Tracking grammaticalization across the generations	Transatlantic divergence: The social and linguistic correlates of actually/really variation
	Douglas Bigham, Jessica White & Lars Hinrichs	Heike Pichler & Stephen Levey	Cathleen Waters
	University of Texas at Austin	University of Reading, University of Ottawa	University of Toronto
4:45-7:00	Dinner break
7:00-8:00	Keynote address (UNIVERSITY CENTRE - Alumni auditorium)
	Enigmas of uniformity
	William Labov, University of Pennsylvania
8:30	NWAV38 Party (DESMARAIS 12102)

Sunday October 25

8:30-9:25	Breakfast (DESMARAIS lobby)
	and NWAV business meeting (DESMARAIS 1120)
	DESMARAIS 1120	DESMARAIS 1140	DESMARAIS 1150
	Varia	Methods	Morphological variation in English
	Chair: Paul Kerswill	Chair: Pierrette Thibault	Chair: Vera Regan
9:25-9:50	'Bad' Grammar and the Language Faculty	Closer Still to a Robust, All Digital, Empirical, Reproducible Sociolinguistic Methodology	Was Levelling: An Ancient Feature in Modern Appalachia
	Jack Chambers	Christopher Cieri & Stephanie Strassel	Kirk Hazen
	University of Toronto	University of Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium	West Virginia University
9:50-10:15	Where accommodation to non-native speakers doesn’t happen	Yod-dropping and the Low-Back Vowel Merger in Vancouver: Evidence from three Survey Methods	Variationist sociolinguistics meets morphological typology: grammatical analyticity vs. syntheticity in varieties of English
	Roey Gafter, Dan Jurafsky & Meghan Sumner	Stefan Dollinger & Anita Szakay	Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
	Stanford University	University of British Columbia	Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
10:15-10:40	Are Old Urban Varieties Dying in Contemporary North Africa?	How stable are your grammaticality judgments and exactly how does error affect them?	Marking the Past and the Present in Bequia
	Atiqa Hachimi	Stefan Grondelaers & Dirk Speelman	Miriam Meyerhoff¹, James Walker² & Agata Daleszynska¹
	University of Toronto	Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Leuven	¹University of Edinburgh, ²York University
10:40-11:05	Bypassing the effects of contact: deracialisation of the GOOSE vowel in middle-class South African English	Large-Scale Analysis of Formant Frequency Estimation Variability in Conversational Telephone Speech	You calls it jannying, we calls it mummering – but what do they call it? New and old constraints on verbal -s
	Rajend Mesthrie	Nancy F. Chen¹, Wade Shen¹, Joseph P. Campbell¹ & Reva Schwartz²	Susanne Wagner
	University of Cape Town	¹MIT Lincoln Laboratory, ²United States Secret Service	Chemnitz University of Technology
11:05-11:25	Coffee break (DESMARAIS lobby)
	DESMARAIS 1120	DESMARAIS 1140	DESMARAIS 1150
	Sound change: mergers	Phonetic and phonological variation	(Morpho-) lexical change
	Chair: Jeff Mielke	Chair: Henrietta J. Cedergren	Chair: Jenny Cheshire
11:25-11:50	On the role of social factors in the loss of phonemic distinctions	Sociolinguistic variation in the 1 handshape in British Sign Language	Variation et changement lexical dans le français canadien: Approche variationniste quantitative
	Maciej Baranowski	Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon & Ramas Rentelis	Alena Barysevich
	University of Manchester	University College London	University of Western Ontario
11:50-12:15	Sound change under the radar: On not noticing mergers	Postvocalic /r/ in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire	Intensifiers in Tyneside: Longitudinal Development and New Trends
	Matthew J. Gordon	Sarah Villard	Kate Barnfield & Isabelle Buchstaller
	University of Missouri-Columbia	University of New Hampshire	Newcastle University
12:15-12:40	Lexical diffusion in the early stages of the merry-marry merger	The gradient nature of /s/-lenition in Caleño Spanish	Children’s acquisition of the variable like as a discourse marker and discourse particle
	Laura Baxter	Richard File-Muriel & Earl Brown	Christopher V. Odato
	York University	The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, California State University, Monterey Bay	University of Michigan