DiVar 1 Schedule
Diversity and Variation in Language
Feb 10 and 11, 2017
Emory Conference Center
Starvine Ballrooms
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Day One |
8:30-9:25 Registration and coffee
Session 1 Lexical variation
9:25 - 11:30, Starvine I
Chair: Jinho Choi (Emory University)
| 9:25 Conference Welcome, Allison Burkette (University of Mississippi) |
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9:30
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Katie Ireland Kuiper
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University of Georgia
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“After three days, fish and guests stink: Sharen linguistic resources across three generations”
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10:00
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Allison Burkette
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University of Mississippi
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“’Language and culture’ meets ‘variation and change’: A trans-Atlantic comparison”
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10:30
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Juliana Norton
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University of Mississippi
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“Mud wasps and spiteful hornets: Connecting LANE with folk taxonomy”
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11:00
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Ian Stewart and
Jacob Eisenstein |
Georgia Institute of Technology
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“#thighgap to #thyghgapp” Incrementation of orthographic variation on Instagram”
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Session 2 Language and place
9:25 - 11:30, Starvine II
Chair: Hiram Maxim (Emory University)
| 9:25 Conference Welcome, Susan Tamasi (Emory University) |
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9:30
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Melinda Childs and Jessica Lian
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Georgia State
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“Linguistic landscape of Burmese in Clarkston, Georgia”
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10:00
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Cassie Leymarie
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Emory University
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“Linguistic landscape and language activism: Acknowledging linguistic diversity in Clarkston, Georgia”
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10:30
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Giovanna Brunetti
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University of Mississippi
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“Sicilians in Detroit: Intonation patterns and new vocabulary”
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11:00
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Hiram Maxim
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Emory University
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“Linguistic variation amidst curricular coherence: A longitudinal case study of curriculum-based L2 writing development”
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Lunch 11:30 - 1:30
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Panel A |
Panel B How to get into graduate school 1:30 - 2:30, Starvine I |
Break 2:30 - 3:00
Session 3 Sociophonetics I
3:00-5:00, Starvine I
Chair: Jose Luis Boigues (Emory University)
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3:00
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Mohammad Aljutaily
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University of Georgia and Qassim University
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“Variation on the production of emphasis if Gulf Pidgin Arabic: A sociophonetic study"
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3:30
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Rosa Ilyayeva
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Emory University
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“Patterns of /r/ realization in the rhotic South: Examining /r/-dissimilation in Atlanta”
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4:00
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Lisa Lipani
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University of Georgia
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“Variation in word-final consonants: Velar stops”
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4:30
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Mike Olsen
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University of Georgia
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“Revisiting /æ/-raising in Chicago: A pilot study on LANCS speakers”
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Session 4 Diversity and identity
3:00-5:00, Starvine II
Chair: Johnny Cheng (Emory University)
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3:00
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Tamara Warhol
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University of Mississippi
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“Transforming linguistics pedagogy, celebrating diversity”
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3:30
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Dennis Preston
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Oklahoma State University
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“Diversity in Sociolinguistics: The turn to language regard”
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4:00
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Brianna Cornelius
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University of South Carolina
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“Gay black men and the negotiation of multiplex identities through code-switching”
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4:30
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Sazara Johnson and Sasha Johnson-Coleman
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SaTechRo, LLC and Norfolk State University
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“SEEN vs. SHADOWTM Business politics: Using language to determine power, position, and performance”
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Break 5:00-5:30
Friday Plenary
5:30-6:30, Starvine Ballroom
Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University)
"Engagement ain't Optional in Language Variation Studies"
Day Two |
8:30-9:30
Registration and coffee
Session 5 Language and texts
9:30-11:30, Starvine I
Chair: Hakyoon Lee (Georgia State University)
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9:30
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Jimmie Roberts, Kathryn Battaglia, and Roberto Franzosi
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Emory University
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“The 1906 Atlanta race riots: Newspaper language and the epideictic rhetoric of race relations”
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10:00
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Roberto Franzosi, Jack Hardy, Dimitrios Zaras, and Alberto Purpura
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Emory University, Georgia State, Emory University, and University of Padua
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“100 years of sociological writing: A study in corpus linguistics”
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10:30
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Joshua Hummel
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University of Georgia
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“Conflict variation: Distribution of ‘protest’ and ‘riot’ in contemporary news media”
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Session 6 Colloquium: Linguistic Planets of Belief
9:30-11:30, Starvine II
Colloquium: Linguistic Planets of Belief
Paulina Bounds (Tennessee Tech)
Jennifer Cramer (University of Kentucky)
Susan Tamasi (Emory University)
Lunch 11:30-1:30
| Panel C Careers for linguists outside of academia 1:30-2:30, Starvine I |
Roundtable discussion: How can we be better mentors 1:30-2:30, Starvine II |
Break: 2:30-3:00
Session 7 Sociophonetics II
3:00-5:00, Starvine I
Chair: Yun Kim (Emory University)
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3:00
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Rachel Olsen and Margaret Renwick
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University of Georgia
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“Methods for capturing acoustic variation in Southern US speech”
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3:30
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Joseph Stanley
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University of Georgia
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“V[e]ry v[ɛ]riable vowel mergers in the Pacific Northwest”
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4:00
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Phillip Carter and Autumn Hyatt
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Florida International University
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“A first look at AAE among African Americans and Haitian Americans in Miami: Grammatical and phonological variation”
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4:30
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Trevor Ramsey and Lisa Lipani
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University of Georgia
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“Variation in negative contractions: From /z/ to [d]"
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Session 8 Variation across languages
3:00-5:00, Starvine II
Chair: Donald Tuten (Emory University)
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3:00
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Luca D’Anna
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University of Mississippi
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“Dialectal variation and identity in post-revolutionary Lybian media: The case of Dragunov (2014)”
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3:30
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Daniel Martín González
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University Complutense de Madrid
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“When Cognitive Linguistics met Sociolinguistics: Defining Judeo-Spanish as an L2 in Reverend Alexander Thomson’s El catecismo (1854)”
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4:00
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Anita Husen
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Stanford University
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“Religious heritage learners: Competencies and needs of non-Arab Muslims in Arabic class”
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4:30
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Stephen Fafulas, Erin O’Rourke, and Nicholas Henriksen
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University of Mississippi, University of Alabama, and University of Michigan
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“Language contact and convergence in the Peruvian Amazon: The case of Yagua-Spanish and Bora-Spanish”
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Break 5:00-5:30
Saturday Plenary
5:30-6:30, Starvine Ballroom
Bill Kretzschmar (University of Georgia)
"A Good Turn"