Programme

See the programme, abstracts, and other informantion in the PDF version of the booklet here.

WORKSHOP/ATELIER

Erin Wilkinson and Terry Janzen

University of Manitoba

The necessity of video data to study variation and change: Signed language and gesture research

Lisa Schlegl

University of Toronto

Well well well, what have we here?: Tracking change in English utterance-initial discourse markers

Hai Thi Thanh Tran

University of Manitoba

General extender use in English L1 and L2 Filipino-Canadian speech

Lanlan Li and Nicole Rosen

University of Manitoba

Examining voice onset time of Filipino Winnipegger English

Timothy Gadanidis

University of Toronto

"I'll have to steal that... um borrow it": Investigating uh and um in the instant messages of teens and twentysomethings

PLENARY TALK/CONFERENCE PLENIERE

Jennifer Nycz

Georgetown University

Change and variation in Canadian ex-pats

Marisa Brook and Emily Blamire

University of Victoria and University of Toronto

Constraints on awesome: Rule breaking and following at the edge of the standard grammar

Christiani P. Thompson

University of Saskatchewan

Tipo, Brazil’s like: An exploratory study

Mariana Hernández Hernández

Memorial University of Newfoundland

A variationist analysis of modifiers in cooking shows

WORKSHOP/ATELIER

Kevin Russell

University of Manitoba

Statistics for sociolinguistics using R

Breakfast/Déjeuner 1614/1613 Desautels

Invited speaker/Conférencière invitée: Rebecca Roeder

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The dynamics of third dialect formation: Mid-century evidence on the low back merger from Victoria, BC

Invited speaker/Conférencière invitée: Julia Swan

San Jose State University

Canadian or Californian vowels?: The third dialect shift in progress in Vancouver, BC and Seattle, WA

Michael Friesner & Laura Kastronic

Ryerson University and University of Toronto

Short-a and the Canadian Shift in Quebec English

Discussion

Conférencier invité/Invited speaker: Vincent Arnaud

Université du Quebec à Chicoutimi

Entre Saguenay et Québec, entre acoustique et perception : portrait de quelques faits de variation sociophonétique en français québécois

Caroline Sigouin et Johanna-Pascale Roy

Université Laval

Des /Ɛ/ relâchés en français québécois?

Discussion

Discussant (Rob Hagiwara, University of Manitoba)

Erin Wilkinson

University of Manitoba

How SELF-ish are Winnipeggers?!: Emerging evidence of regional variation in American Sign Language morphosyntax

Pocholo Umbal, Lisa Schlegl, Katharina Pabst, Lex Konnelly, Angelika Kiss, Timothy Gadanidis and Sali A. Tagliamonte

University of Toronto

"I think ∅ it depends on the context": Stylistic variation in the use of the zero complementizer

Derek Denis and Isra Saghir

University of Toronto Mississauga

"There was some good farmers in them days": Exploring was/were variation in turn of the century rural Ontario English

Timothy Gadanidis, Nicole Hildebrand-Edgar*, Angelika Kiss, Lex Konnelly, Katharina Pabst, Lisa Schlegl, Pocholo Umbal and Sali A. Tagliamonte

University of Toronto & York University*

Operationalizing style in variationist analysis: Stance-taking and English complementizers

Michael Maneen

University of Ottawa

Verbal negation in French: Evidence from colloquial Parisian French

Réjean Canac-Marquis et Christian Guilbault

Université Simon Fraser

Assimilation et innovation en contexte minoritaire: Les voyelles en français de Maillardville