Fisher on morphosyntax of AAE

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AAE Morphosyntactic Feature Use Among High School Students: Effects on Sociolinguistic Awareness and School Discipline Sabriya Fisher, Wellesley College This talk examines use of AAE morphosyntactic features among high school students in two cities: Boston …

Can Pixabaj on Mayan language Mam

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The journey of a language and its speakers: Mam of the Chiapas-Guatemala border Telma Can Pixabaj CIMSUR-UNAM (Chiapas, Mexico) The aim of this talk is to share some findings about the state of the Mayan …

Litty on Historical Sociolinguistics

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Historical sociolinguistics in the digital age: Methods and approaches for analyzing multilingualism in the Duchy of Schleswig Samantha M. Litty, Europa-Universität Flensburg Principal Investigator, Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism: Ideology, Policy, Practice (ViNoRHM) Historically multilingual …

King on Race and language in the legal system

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Racialization as meaning-making: A multidisciplinary approach to race and language in the criminal legal system Sharese King, University of Chicago Despite progress in contiguous fields like sociology and anthropology in complicating essentialist or static views …

dos Santos on Kawahíva Relatives

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Relativization in Kawahíva Wesley dos Santos, University of Texas-Austin and UW-Madison Register here In many languages of the Americas and Asia, relativization is described as consisting of a nominalization that modifies another head noun (Yap …

Canceled – Cabrelli on Third language acquisition

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This talk has been canceled – we hope to reschedule for next year! Building a methodological toolbox for third language acquisition research Jennifer Cabrelli, University of Illinois-Chicago Over the past few decades, third language (L3) …

Pérez González on the Mocho’ Language Documentation Project

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What Can We Learn from the Mocho’ Language Documentation Project? Jaime Pérez González University of California, Santa Barbara   In this presentation, I talk about strategies and methodologies that we have implemented in our community-based …

Reed on Place in Appalachian English

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Rootedness, Language Variation, and Appalachia: Place’s place in language Paul E. Reed, University of Alabama Register here Regional variation, that is, variation in linguistic productions by folks from different places, is one of the more …

Awai-Jennings on social meaning in use of Hawai`i Pidgin

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Da Kine Tawk: Identity and Social Meaning Through the Use of Basilectal Pidgin in Hawai`i Clint Awai-Jennings, Ohio State University Register here In the State of Hawai`i, there are over 600,000 speakers of Hawai`i Creole …

Utz Prelim defense

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Linguistics PhD candidate Emily Utz defends her first Prelim paper, “Embedded inversion in American English varieties: A sociolinguistic survey”