ICPhS talk in Melbourne

Australian coat of arms (at the Melbourne Museum)

Australian coat of arms (at the Melbourne Museum)

Concluding my talk (thanks to Maddie Oakley for the photo!)

Concluding my talk (thanks to Maddie Oakley for the photo!)

A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Melbourne, Australia. The talk was titled Linguistic and Social Factors Favoring Acquisition of Contrast in a New Dialect; you can download a pdf of the proceedings paper here.