Discussion with the Memorial University of Newfoundland Sociolinguistics Reading Group
(This is not new really, but I am newly linking to it on this website)
Last summer, Paul De Decker (Memorial University of Newfoundland) invited me to speak (remotely) with his department's Sociolinguistics Summer Reading Group about my 2013 paper in Journal of Pragmatics, which dealt with theories of phonological representation via second dialect acquisition data.
Check out the video of our Google Hangout here (please ignore the fact that I am looking downscreen at the little squares with my interlocutors' faces, instead of at the camera):
Sociophonetics course at the 2015 LSA Summer Institute
This July I will co-teach (with Lauren-Hall Lew) a four-week introductory course in Sociophonetics at the 2015 Linguistic Summer Institute in Chicago, IL. Our syllabus is currently under construction, but at the moment we're envisioning two weeks of introduction to the analysis of speech production (taught by Lauren), following by two weeks of an introduction to perception studies and how sociophonetic work has shaped theoretical models of variation (taught by me). I'm excited to meet and work with graduate students at the Institute (my first) as well as audit a course or two!