Claire Henderson and I gave a talk at NWAV 53 in Michigan last month, about our ongoing work looking at “foreign a” words (what we call the PASTA set) by mobile Torontonians and New Yorkers.
thanks to Abby Killam for the photo!
New edited volume: Dialect Contact!
My edited volume with Víctor Fernández-Mallat - "Dialect Contact: From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives" - now exists in physical form! This was a really rewarding and fun collaboration, and we're proud of the final product: 10 chapters from us and 14 other contributors, representing a diverse set of languages and varieties spanning five continents. Available for order through Georgetown University Press, Barnes & Noble, Amazon etc. (academic friends, please ask your institutional library to order a copy!)
Sociophonetics in Brazil 🇧🇷
This August I went to Brazil! I gave an invited talk about my work on second dialect acquisition and vowels at the University of São Paulo, before heading to O Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem at the University of Campinas to work with Livia Oushiro's research group and teach a week-long mini course in Sociophonetics - some of the hybrid class participants are pictured below. The students at both USP and Unicamp were so friendly, thoughtful, engaged, and generally impressive - such a joy to talk to/work with them!
Sociophoneticians IRL and online
Corpora of Mobile Speakers has launched!
I’m happy to announce the “publication” of the Corpora of Mobile Speakers (CorMS)! So far CorMS consists of two corpora drawn from my own NSF project, the New Yorkers in Toronto Corpus and the Torontonians in New York Corpus, though my hope is that the number of corpora linked to the site will grow (from the work of my own students, or colleagues who also work on mobile speakers). The CorMS website contains information about the corpora and links to a more detailed user guide about how they were built and what they contain; to access the data files (which are currently stored in a Georgetown Box folder), potential users need only register for access via a google form linked on the CorMS site.
If you have any questions about CorMS, find me at ICLaVE in Vienna next month (where I’ll be giving a multimedia presentation about the corpora) or send me an email!