Just back from NWAV51 in Queens, where I presented some work examining the use of classic New York City English features by native New Yorkers who’ve been living in Toronto. The larger point of the talk was that the way we assess second dialect acquisition - taking the (rate of) use of “D2” forms as a straightforward indication of acquisition - is flawed, and that it’s important to consider the positive reasons why mobile speakers might continue to use D1 forms even after they’ve acquired D2 variants.
ICPhS 2023 talk
This month I gave a talk at ICPhS 2023 in Prague, on the cot/caught distinction in the speech of native New Yorkers living in Toronto and native Torontonians living in New York City. Here’s the proceedings paper!
Praha, glimpsed through the trees of Petřín Hill
LabPhon Satellite session
In June I participated in the LabPhon Satellite Session “Challenges for Change: A Crowd-Sources Brainstorming Session” organized by Valerie Freeman and Paul De Decker. My talk (based on work with Yoojin Kang) was about sources of participant variability in remote or web-based research and ways to overcome them. Thanks to Valerie, Paul, and all the presenters and participants for a great discussion!
NWAV49 talk
My talk for the virtual NWAV49 (based on collaborative work with my student Yoojin Kang) is now online!