ICPhS talk in Melbourne

Australian coat of arms (at the Melbourne Museum)

Concluding my talk (thanks to Maddie Oakley for the photo!)

A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Melbourne, Australia. The talk was titled Linguistic and Social Factors Favoring Acquisition of Contrast in a New Dialect; you can download a pdf of the proceedings paper here.

ICLaVE 10 talk in Leeuwarden

special delivery in Leeuwarden

Title slide (thanks to Sandra Jansen for the photo!)

Just back from an excellent trip to the Netherlands! After jaunts in Amsterdam, Leiden, and the eastern countryside, we headed up to Leeuwarden for ICLaVE 10 where I gave my talk, A difference without a distinction? How speakers split word classes without acquiring new categories. My talk was part of a larger panel on phonemic splits organized by Sandra Jansen and Natalie Braber - thanks to both for inviting me to be a part of it!

Colloquium talk at The University of Iowa

Iowa City businesses lean in to their midwest dialect features

one of the ubiquitous [hɔᵊks] (in my dialect)

I’ve just returned from the University of Iowa, where I gave an invited talk (Dialects on the Move: What Accent Change in Mobile Speakers Can Reveal About People, Phonology, and the Lexicon) in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and otherwise had a great time chatting with faculty and students!

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: