New article in Language Variation & Change; NWAV talk

My article Stylistic variation among mobile speakers: Using old and new regional variables to construct complex place identity has just been published in Language Variation and Change! In this paper I examine whether Canadians living in U.S. cities (NYC and DC) adjust their use of regionally varying vowels depending on how they talk about place (short answer: yes, but only if vowel/place links are socially salient).

I’ve also just returned from a great trip to NYC for NWAV 47, held at NYU, where I presented a talk titled What Do We Mean by Structure?: Mobile Speakers and the (Non-)Coherence of Chain Shifts and had a lot of fun catching up with friends and colleagues from my PhD alma mater!

Promotion and Tenure!

Just received word that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! I am so happy and excited to continue my career at Georgetown Linguistics :D

Keynote at SocioPhonAus 2

In July I gave a keynote talk, Transnational Mobility and Accent Change: Theoretical and Methodological Opportunities for Sociophonetics, at the 2nd Workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in the English Varieties of Australia in Brisbane. Here's me during that talk, presenting some early findings from my NSF project!

Thanks to James Grama for the photo!

And here are a couple of cuddly koalas I saw at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary during my trip:

Invited talk at CVC 10

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! 

Talk action shot (yoinked from Sali Tagliamonte's twitter)