Just back from giving the keynote talk (Change and Variation in Canadian Expats) at Change and Variation in Canada 10 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where I had an excellent time discussing the Canadian Shift and other vowelly matters with fellow attendees!
Poster at ASA
Shannon Mooney and I also presented our work on vowel convergence at the most recent Acoustical Society of America Meeting in New Orleans!
Canada Research Chair sponsored talk at University of Toronto
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!