Event Category: Talk

Ling Fridays: Sprenger on individual variation

Anna Marie Sprenger

November 13, 2026 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm TBD

Beyond Gay /s/: Speaker-Level Variation in a Queer Romanian Community Anna-Marie Sprenger, Chicago What does it mean to sound queer in a place where queerness itself is precarious and unevenly legible? This talk examines /s/ production among queer speakers in Iași, Romania, drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork and 12,574 /s/ tokens from 15 …