New dialect acquisition on the Citylab blog

Here's a nice piece on accommodation and acquiring new dialect features in the Atlantic's CityLab blog, with comments from Kirk Hazen (West Virginia University) and me:

http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2016/02/linguistics-new-city-transplants-regional-accent/470016/

Poster presentation at NWAV 44

Just returned from NWAV44 in Toronto, where I presented some findings from my current work on variation in the speech of geographically mobile individuals.  A pdf of the poster can be found here.