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
My talk for the virtual NWAV49 (based on collaborative work with my student Yoojin Kang) is now online!
Ladies Engaged in Scholarly Activities. Qing dynasty, late 18th century. Black ink and colors on silk; photo taken at the excellent Barnes Foundation, which I visited the day after my talk
Last week I visited Penn Linguistics to give a talk as part of their Speaker Series. My talk, Differences without distinctions, and distinctions with little difference: COT/CAUGHT vowels among mobile speakers in New York City and Toronto, presented some BRAND NEW (albeit preliminary, as I still have more data to work through) findings about low back vowel realizations among native New Yorkers in Toronto and native Torontonians in New York. I also got to talk to/hang out with a bunch of socio PhD students and hear about their exciting research projects. A great trip all around!
Greg Guy & me at Via Brasil. Did you know there’s a Little Brazil in NYC? I sure didn’t! It’s about a block long.
On October 25th I gave a talk at CUNY’s Sociolinguistics Lunch, about my ongoing work examining dialect change among mobile speakers. It was great to meet and chat with the linguists at CUNY, and to see some old friends from NYU as well! (including my grad school advisor Greg Guy!)