List of papers to be presented at NWAVE24

Click on the authors' names to see their abstracts. Papers are listed alphabetically by author. Session and times are given for each abstract.

Galina Alexandrova & Svitlana Budzhak-Jones, Université de Montréal
/l/ Lenition in Bulgarian: a sound change in progress

Madeleine Allard,
Affiliation and disaffiliation markers in the legislative assembly of New Brunswick

Barbara Avila-Jimenez, SUNY-Buffalo
Markedness reversal of discourse functions in Puerto Rican Spanish

Guy Bailey, Jan Tillery & Tom Wikle, University of Nevada, Oklahoma State University
Reversal of near-merger

John Baugh, Stanford University
Sociolinguistic research and high school teacher education

Alicia Beckford, University of Michigan
My teacher Says...": Attitudes of Jamaican students towards Jamaican Creole

Robert Berdan, California State University at Long Beach
Modeling second language acquisition processes with logistic regression

Renee Blake, Stanford University
Barbadian Creole English: Insights into class and race identity

Hélène Blondeau, Lucie Gagnon & Marie-Odile Fonollosa, Université de Montréal
Aspects of L2 competence in a bilingual setting

Toni Borowsky, University of Sydney
L-Vocalization in Australian English

Stella Bortoni-Ricardo, C. Correa, R. Cecilia, R. Rocha, & V. Freitas, Univ. de Brasilia
Investigating the regularity of stylistic variation: from casual to careful speech

Richard Cameron, University of Illinois Chicago Circle
A proposed explanation of the specific / nonspecific TÙ constraint ranking in Spanish

Kathleen Carey & Patricia Cukor-Avila, University of North Texas
Some propositions on prepositions: A semantic analysis of preposition usage in rural AAVE

Henrietta Cedergren, Université de Québec, Montréal
Linguistic styles, social dialects and tempo

Seo-young Chae, University of Pennsylvania
Explanations for Lexical Exceptions of Sound Change

Sandra Clarke, Memorial University of Newfoundland
English verbal -s marking revisited: The evidence from Newfoundland

Jeff Connor-Linton & Elana Shomony, Georgetown University
Register variation and oral proficiency sampling:toward a discourse criterion for communicative oral tests

Leonie Cornips, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Linguistic changes through time and space in southern Dutch dialect varieties: the intransitive middle-construction

Amalia Coronel,
"Some speak with r(trilled) others are tirados": toward a linguistic change?

Patricia Cukor-Avila, University of North Texas
The loss of a grammatical feature over time: The case of verbal -s in AAVE

Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain, University of Michigan
"Canadian" raising in the Northern Midwest of the United States

Ian Dale, Carleton University
Questions of standardization

Brad Davidson, Stanford University
The pragmatic meaning of Spanish Pronouns

Boyd Davis, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
And they: Discourse connectives in casual and careful speech of New South teens

Ulrike Demske, Carleton University
Language variation and the rise of genitive compounds in Early New High German

Denise Deshaies & Claude Paradis, Université de Laval
About variable thresholds accounting for the perception of prominent syllables in spontaneous speech

Maria Eugênia L. Duarte, UFRJ
Brazilian Portuguese and the null subject parameter: variation and syntax

Sylvie Dubois, Martine Boutin & David Sankoff, Louisiana State University, Université de Québec, Montréal, Université de Montréal
The quantitative analysis of turntaking in multiparticipant conversations

Sylvie Dubois & Megan Melançon, Louisiana State University
Cajun is dead: Long live Cajun

Cyndi Dunn, University of Texas-Austin
Honorifics as stylistic variables

Jacinthe Dupuis, Université de Québec, Montréal
Borrowing and code-switching strategies of New England

Penelope Eckert, Stanford University
A new look at social networks in the study of variation

Walter Edwards, Wayne State University
A sociolinguistic exploration of the usage of the aspectual marker done in AAE in Detroit

Ejike Eze, University of Ottawa
Where do they belong? Classifying lone English-origin nouns in Igbo discourse

Marie Fellbaum, Sydney University
Variation in the acquisition of voiceless stops in the interlanguage of second language learners of English and Spanish

Marie-Odile Fonollosa, Université de Montréal
The representation of spoken French in Quebec theater

Valerie Fridland & Laura Hartley, Michigan State University
Tri-syllabic vowel laxing and the mental lexicon of Native English speakers

Janet M. Fuller, Michigan State University
Variation in the gender assignment of nouns in codeswitching

Dawn Hannah, Stanford University
Samana English copula and the linguistic history of AAVE

Bradley Harris, Memphis State University
TO WHERE ... as subordinator: a camouflaged syntactic Southernism

David Heap, University of Toronto
Subject pronoun variation in Central Romance

Anita Henderson, University of Pennsylvania
The short A pattern of Philadelphia among African-American speakers

Frans Hinskens, University of Nijmegen
A blind spot of variation studies: structural dependence between linguistic variables

Rob Hoopes, Monica Mueller, Carlos Budding and Karen Scarcello
A matched guise study of Quebec sign language and ASL

Barbara Horvath , University of Sydney
L-Vocalization in Australian English

Darin Howe, University of Ottawa
Negative concord in early Black English

Ellen Johnson,
How to discover lexical variation

Hyeon-Seok Kang, Ohio State University
The variable deletion of /w/ in Seoul Korean: its synchronic and diachronic implications

Mary A. Kato, Sonia L. Cyrino, & Velma Reche Correa, UNICAMP, UELondrina, UNICAMP
The recovery of diachronic losses through schooling

Paul Kerswill, University of Reading
Dialect levelling in Norway and in England

Scott Kiesling, Georgetown University
Men's identities and patterns of variation

Ruth King & Terry Nadasdi, York University
Left dislocation, number marking, and (non-)standard French

Juhani Klemola, University of Leeds
Dialect geography and linguistic theory: the dialectal distribution of periphrastic DO

William Kretzschmar, University of Georgia
Urban centers and American English lexical variation

Merja Kytö, University of Tampere
"This is holden the surer and more easie way": comparison of adjectives from Late ME to EModE

William Labov, Sharon Ash, & Charles Boberg, University of Pennsylvania
A problem of macrosociolinguistics: Uniformity of the North vs. diversity of the North Midland

Marty Laforest, Diane Vincent & Guylaine Martel, Université de Laval
Reaching beyond sociolinguistic corpora of interviews: Montreal 1995

Lisa-Anne Lane, Jeannette Denton & Daniel Suslak, University of Chicago
Reaching criterion in phonetic transcription: validity and reliability of non-native speakers

Juliet Langman, Eoetvoes Lorand University
Learning off the cuff: Second language acquisition among Chinese immigrants in Hungary

Mieka LeClair and Julie Roberts, University of Vermont
A phonological analysis of (ing) in Southern Vermont

Daniel Lefkowitz, University of New Mexico
On the mediation of class, race & gender: Intonation on sports radio talk shows

Li Wei & Lesley Milroy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Variations in patterns of language choice and code-switching by three groups of Chinese/English speakers in Newcastle upon Tyne

Scott K. Liddell & Boris Fridman, Gallaudet University
Layering spatial representations in an ASL narrative

Carmen Lizardi-Rivera, San Jose State University
On the hypothesis of permeable adult syntactic systems

Ronald Macaulay, Pitzer College
Ayrshire as a linguistic area

Isabelle Malderez, Université Denis Diderot
A tri-dimensional model for the study of sound change

Elisabete Malvar, University of Ottawa
Relative clauses in English: analysis of which/that/Ø context

Antonio Medina-Rivera, University of South Carolina & Allentown, College of St. Francis de Sales
Velarization of /rr/ in relation to stylistic and social factors in Puerto Rican Spanish

Eva Mendieta-Lombardo & Isabel Molina Martos, Indiana University Northwest, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Animacy hierarchy and Basque influence in Spanish syntax

Norma Mendoza-Denton, Stanford University
Gang affiliation and linguistic variation among high school Latina girls

Miriam Meyerhoff & Nancy Niedzielski, University of Pennsylvania
On the discourse functions of olsem in Bislama

Jason Miller, North Carolina State University
Mixed sociolinguistic alignment and ethnic identity: R-lessness in a native American community

James Milroy, University of Michigan
Scottish vowel length and Canadian raising: social and linguistic distribution of (ai) in a Northumbrian dialect

Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan
Local and supra-local linguistic norms:

Gender-related patterns of phonological change in the Northeast of England

Christine Moisset, University of Pennsylvania
The status of h-aspiré in French today

Michael Montgomery & Margaret Mishoe, University of South Carolina
"He bes took up with a Yankee girl and moved up north. It's a shame in this world": the verb bes in the Carolinas and its history

Birch Moonwomon, Ohio State University
In the life: Making sense of ourselves

Marcyliena Morgan & Stephen DeBerry, UCLA
Lexical grammaticalization and phonological variation in urban African American hip-hop

Elise Morse-Gagné, University of Indiana
Charting the course of Viking pronouns: An analysis of the dissemination of Scandinavian THEY, THEM, and THEIR in Middle English

Raymond Mougeon & Terry Nadasdi, York University
Grammatical discontinuity in minority language communities

Salikoko Mufwene, University of Chicago
Singulative and numeral classifying systems in English: how a variationist approach may help understand their coexistence

Naomi Nagy, Christine Moisset & Gillian Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania
On the acquisition of variable phonology in L2

Anthony Naro & Marta Scherre, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
The subject/verb relationship: the masking effect of the relativizing particle

Nancy Niedzielski, University of California, Santa Barbara
Acoustic Analysis and Languages Attitudes in Detroit and Windsor

Hans Frede Nielsen, Odense University
Linguistic variation in the early runic inscriptions of Scandinavia

Arja Nurmi, University of Helsinki
Real and apparent time: the case of periphrastic DO and BE+ING

John Paolillo, Stanford University
Codeswitching in Diglossia

Liliana Paredes, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Morphosyntactic variation, levels of proficiency and internal tendencies in Bilingual Spanish in the Andes

Peter Patrick, Georgetown University
Dimensions of style and register in Jamaican Creole

Charles Paus, University of South Carolina, Chapel Hill
A quantitative study of phonetic ellipsis in Moscow Russian

James Peterson, University of Pennsylvania
Micro/Macro-style and hyperconvergence in the other informant

Susan Pintzuk & Anthony Kroch, University of York, U. of PA
Dating the language of Beowulf

Velma Pollard, University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago
Beyond grammar - teaching English in an Anglophone Creole environment

Shana Poplack & Sali Tagliamonte, University of Ottawa, University of York
It's black and white: the future of English in rural Nova Scotia

Amara Prasithrathsint, Chulalongkorn University
The emergence and development of abstract nominalization in Standard Thai

Dennis Preston, Michigan State University
(A-)W{O,A}K(-EN)(-EN)(-ED) (UP)

Robin Queen, University of Texas, AusTin
Intonation among German-Turkish bilinguals

Heinrich Ramisch, University of Bamberg
Dialectological and computational features of the Computer Developed Linguistic Atlas of England (CLAE)

Christine Raschka, University of Michigan
Grammatical variation in two Asian minority groups in Britain

Elaine B. Richardson, Michigan State University
African American Vernacular English discourse in writing: Is it really worth knowing?

John Rickford, Stanford University
AAVE and the Creole Hypothesis: Reflections on the state of the issue

Jennifer Rothblatt, Stanford University
Gendered speech strategies among children

William Samarin, University of Toronto
Variation and gender in urban Sango

Susan Schatz, Gallaudet University
Objectivity and commitment in ASL

Steven Schäufele, University of Illinois, Urbana
The small minds' hobgoblin is not optimal: Ties in optimality calculations lead to optionality within a single grammar

Marta Scherre & Anthony Naro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Concordance Markers: the left is in control

Natalie Schilling-Estes, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and NC State University
Explaining the performance register: stylistic shift as realignment strategy

Erik Schils & Rob Vousten, University of Nijmegen
Dialect and identity in high school

Mary Berni Schremp,
Relative pronouns in Oklahoma

Scott Schwenter, Stanford University
Evidentiality in Spanish morphosyntax: a reanalysis of '(De)Queismo'

Maria Jose Serrano, Universidad de La Laguna
Accounting for morpho-syntactic change in Spanish: the present perfect case

Mary Sue Sroda & Margaret Mishoe, University of South Carolina
"I jus like to look at me some goats": dialectal pronominals in Southern English

John J. Staczek, Georgetown University
The possessive adjective as involvement marker in Colonial Virginia cookeries

Danijela Stojanovic, University of Ottawa
Direct object position in Serbo-Croatian

Stephanie Strassel & Charles Boberg, University of Pennsylvania
The reversal of a sound change in Cincinnati

David Sutcliffe, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Recutting and the BEV copula

Whitney Tabor, University of Rochester
Continuous categories strengthen diachronic theory

Shoji Takano, University of Arizona
The myth of a homogenous grammar of Japanese women's languages: The speech of women in non-traditional gender roles

Jeff Tennant, University of Western Ontario
Dealing with speaking rate as a factor group in variation studies

Erik Thomas, North Carolina State University
The effects of duration-dependent reduction in the actuation of a sound change in Ohio

M. Teresa Turell & Mercè Pujol, Universitat Pompeu Fabreu, Universitat RamFn Llull
Theoretical and methodological issues in the variable analysis of Spanish-Catalan contact

Mahendra K. Verma, University of York
The young Panjabi speech community in Glasgow

James Walker, University of Ottawa
The (r)-ful Truth about African Nova Scotian English

David Walshaw & Li Wei, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Innovators of language shift in the Chinese community of North East England

Tracey Weldon, North Carolina State University
Past Marking in Gullah

Walt Wolfram & Kirk Hazen, North Carolina State University
Isolation within isolation: the invisible Outer Banks dialect

Daming Xu & David Deterding, NTU, Singapore
Nasal duration variability in Singapore Mandarin Chinese

Qing Zhang, Stanford University
Phonological variation and the marketplace in China

Katya Zubritskaya, New York University
Class and the sound changes in "pre-Perestroika" Russia

Katya Zubritskaya & Hadass Sheffer, New York University, Swarthmore College, and University of Pennsylvania
Gradience and the OCP in Optimality Theory