Ladies Engaged in Scholarly Activities. Qing dynasty, late 18th century. Black ink and colors on silk; photo taken at the excellent Barnes Foundation, which I visited the day after my talk
Last week I visited Penn Linguistics to give a talk as part of their Speaker Series. My talk, Differences without distinctions, and distinctions with little difference: COT/CAUGHT vowels among mobile speakers in New York City and Toronto, presented some BRAND NEW (albeit preliminary, as I still have more data to work through) findings about low back vowel realizations among native New Yorkers in Toronto and native Torontonians in New York. I also got to talk to/hang out with a bunch of socio PhD students and hear about their exciting research projects. A great trip all around!