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):
LSA Summer Institute at the University of Chicago
Hello from Chicago, where I'm teaching the latter half of Sociophonetics at the 2015 LSA Summer Institute (Lauren Hall-Lew taught for the first half). Last week's classes were on the sociophonetics of speech perception - how social information affects the perception of sounds, and how variation in speech leads to perceptions of the speaker. This week: accommodation, change over the lifespan, and models of (socio)phonological variation!
New sound-attenuated booth in the Georgetown Linguistics Lab!
I am very pleased to announce that installation of the sound-attenuated booth in ICC 201 (The LingLab) is finally complete! This crucial new piece of research infrastructure will benefit the increasing number of students and faculty who require space for collecting high-quality sound recordings or carrying out perception experiments.