Australian coat of arms (at the Melbourne Museum)
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.
special delivery in Leeuwarden
Title slide (thanks to Sandra Jansen for the photo!)
Just back from an excellent trip to the Netherlands! After jaunts in Amsterdam, Leiden, and the eastern countryside, we headed up to Leeuwarden for ICLaVE 10 where I gave my talk, A difference without a distinction? How speakers split word classes without acquiring new categories. My talk was part of a larger panel on phonemic splits organized by Sandra Jansen and Natalie Braber - thanks to both for inviting me to be a part of it!