Happy to announce that my new paper on yod dropping in Toronto English has been published in English Language and Linguistics. You can access it here (https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674321000277).

If you missed my presentations at NWAV 50, you can now watch them on YouTube:

1) Project launch presentation (with Johanna Aminoff, Aida Alanzi, Raisa Tayib and Derek Denis)

Multimodal communication in the digital age: A cross-linguistic investigation of language variation in videoconferencing. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTuuSJ_ZQWU

2) Paper presentation

The influence of local affiliation on co-occurrence: Evidence from Aroostook County English. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp-FzdJzHJM

Excited to announce that I will be (co-)presenting two papers at NWAV 50 this year: The first one is a paper presentation called "The influence of local affiliation on co-occurrence: Evidence from Aroostook County English". This single-authored talk is based on my dissertation research on language and place in Northern Maine, which I successfully defended in July 2022.

The second one is a project launch presentation titled "Multimodal communication in the digital age: A cross-linguistic investigation of language variation in videoconferencing." This co-authored talk is based on a follow-up project to my dissertation that I have been working on in collaboration with Aida Alanzi, Johanna Aminoff, Raisa Tayib, and Derek Denis. We will be introducing the main project, which compares in-person and videoconferencing interactions across multiple languages and varieties, and discussing preliminary findings on backchanneling.

The conference will take place in hybrid form from October 13-15, 2022.

Happy to announce that I successfully defended my dissertation "Putting 'the other Maine' on the map: Language variation, local affiliation, and co-occurrence in Aroostook County English". I am grateful to my committee members, Profs. Sali A. Tagliamonte, Derek Denis, and Jessamyn Schertz, my external examiner, Jim Stanford, and my internal external committee members Naomi Nagy and Marisa Brook for their insightful comments and questions on my work. I would also like to thank the wonderful people of Southern Aroostook County for sharing their stories with me.

I am excited to announce that my co-authored paper "Tracking language change in real time - Challenges for community-based research in the 21st century" got accepted to Methods in Dialectology XVII in Mainz, Germany. Alison Chasteen, Sam Brunet, Sali Tagliamonte, and I will be talking about the challenges and opportunities we encountered during the data collection phase for the Language in later Life project. Our data was collected before the pandemic, but many of the lesson we learned still apply and may be more important than ever given how difficult in-person fieldwork has become.

Have you ever wondered what patterns of variation may reveal about cognitive decline? If the answer is yes, please join me and Sali Tagliamonte tomorrow, March 18 at 7.30am EST for a discussion of our joint work on this topic. Our talk is part of the Intersections Roundtable, which is organized by Carolin Schneider and Edith Gendron.

For more information (including how to register), please click here.

Sali A. Tagliamonte will be presenting our joint work (with Alison Chasteen) on aging and adjectives of positive evaluation at Corpora for Language and Aging Research 5 (CLARe 5) at 4pm EST today.

I'm excited to announce that my co-authored paper on the linguistic ecologies of multilingual students in Toronto, Canada and Rochester, USA is out in Linguistics Vanguard ahead of print. You can access the paper here. I am grateful to my co-authors Maya Ravindranath Abtahian, Naomi Nagy, and Vydhia Elango for the great collaboration.

The paper is part of a special issue on the impact of Covid-19 on languages and linguistics edited by Dr. Betsy Sneller. Please make sure to also check out the other papers as they become available.

I'm excited to announce that my co-authored paper on ageism experiences among middle-aged and older Canadians (with Alison Chasteen, Sali A. Tagliamonte and Sam Brunet)is out now in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The paper is part of a special issue on ageism and its effects in different life contexts.

You can check it out here.

A recording of the LSA Webinar on Gender Bias & Stereotypes in Linguistics Research and Teaching that I participated in is now available on Youtube. Click here to watch it.

The Linguistic Society of America is organizing a webinar on gender bias & stereotypes in linguistics research and teaching on Friday, January 28, 2022, from 12-1.30pm EST. During the webinar, my co-authors and I will discuss two related papers from the December 2021 issue of Language:

• Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice (1997)? (by Paola Cépeda, Hadas Kotek, me, and Kristen Syrett)

• Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences (by Hadas Kotek, Rikker Dokkum, Sarah Babinski, and Christopher Geissler)
  

To register, click here.