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
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In June I participated in the LabPhon Satellite Session “Challenges for Change: A Crowd-Sources Brainstorming Session” organized by Valerie Freeman and Paul De Decker. My talk (based on work with Yoojin Kang) was about sources of participant variability in remote or web-based research and ways to overcome them. Thanks to Valerie, Paul, and all the presenters and participants for a great discussion!
In mid-March, Victor Fernandez-Mallat and I co-hosted the latest iteration of the Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics, on the topic of Dialect Contact. A great series of talks was delivered in Gather.town and many fruitful and engaging discussions ensued!
plenary discussion of Danny Erker’s talk
post-session chat in the Cat Cafe