Last Thursday I gave two talks at University of Toronto: a Canada Research Chair-sponsored talk to the Linguistics Department ("Accents on the Move: What Mobile Canadians Reveal About Phonological Variation and Change") as well as a guest lecture in Sali Tagliamonte's graduate seminar on Stylistic Variation. The U of T linguists were a great audience in both cases!
Linguistics Colloquium at University of Michigan
In late September I gave a colloquium talk at the University of Michigan ("Style in a second dialect: Topic- and stance-based variation among mobile speakers"). Thank you to the linguists in Ann Arbor for being such wonderful hosts!
National Science Foundation award: Second Dialect Acquisition and Stylistic Variation in Mobile Speakers
I am so excited to announce that I have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support a three-year project examining dialect variation and change in mobile speakers! You can read the abstract (written for public consumption) here; stay tuned to this site for more details as the project gets set up! (or find me during my talks & travels this semester)
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Award: Shannon Mooney
Congratulations to my (first doctoral!) student Shannon Mooney, who has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant to support her work on Child Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation - see details and a project abstract here.