Pabst, K. (2023). Is [nuz] really the new [njuz]? Yod dropping in Toronto English. English Language and Linguistics, 27(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674321000277.
Gadanidis, T., Kiss, A., Konnelly, L., Pabst, K., Schlegl, L., Umbal, P. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2023). Integrating qualitative and quantitative analyses of stance: A case study of English that/zero variation. Language in Society, 52(1), 27-50. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404521000671. (available online since September 2021)
Abtahian, M. R., Nagy, N., Pabst, K. & Elango, V. (2022). Disruptions due to COVID-19: Using mixed methods to identify factors influencing language maintenance and shift. Linguistics Vanguard, 8(3), 331-341. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0057.
Chasteen, A. L., Tagliamonte, S. A., Pabst, K. & Brunet, S. (2022). Ageist communication experienced by middle-aged and older Canadians. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(4), 2004. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042004.
Cépeda, P., Kotek, H., Pabst, K. & Syrett, K. (2021). Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice (1997)? Language, 97(4), 678-702. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0256.
Tagliamonte, S. A. & Pabst, K. (2020). A cool comparison: Adjectives of positive evaluation in Toronto, Canada and York, England. Journal of English Linguistics, 48(1), 3-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424219881487.
Pabst, K., *Brunet, S., Chasteen, A. L. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2025). Tracking language change in real time: Challenges for community-based research in the 21st century. In S. Wagner & U. Stange-Hundsdörfer (eds.), (Dia)lects in the 21st century: Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XVII (Mainz, 2022) (pp. 155-171). Language Science Press.
Pabst, K., Konnelly, L., Röthlisberger, M. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2020). Individual- vs. community-level variation: New evidence from (t,d) deletion in Canadian English. In Y. Asahi (Ed.), Proceedings of Methods XVI: Papers from the sixteenth international conference in Methods on Dialectology, 2017 (pp. 5-15). Peter Lang.
Pabst, K., Konnelly, L., Wilson, F., Meslin, S.& Nagy, N. (2020). Variation in subject doubling in Homeland and Heritage Faetar. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 42. https://doi.org/10.33137/twpl.v42i1.33527.
Pabst, K. (2016). Terms of address in S’gaw Karen. Texas Linguistics Forum, 59, 100-109. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Symposium about Language and Society.
Pabst, K., *Injac, M., *Locke, R., *Wang, Y. & Tagliamonte, S. (resubmitted). Up to Parry Sound and out to Arookstook County: Prepositional variation in two dialects of English.
Pabst, K. (revising). What can novels tell us about lifespan change? A case study of Margaret Atwood's use of restrictive subject relativizers.
Pabst, K., *Alanzi, A., *Aminoff, J., *Tayib, R. & Denis, D. (2023). Zooming in on emerging norms: Preliminary results from a cross-linguistic investigation of backchanneling. In L. Cotgrove, L. Herzberg, H. Lüngen & I. Pisetta (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (pp. 13-14). https://doi.org/10.14618/1z5k-pb25.
Pabst, K. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2020). A diary-based study of language use during cognitive decline. Innovation in Aging, 4(1), 575.
Pabst, K. (resubmitted). Pop music as a window into language variation: Integrating research-based learning into the sociolinguistics classroom. Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Linguistics (TRILL).
*undergraduate student co-author
Pabst, K. (2024). “A County Boy you’ll quickly know”: On the intersection of local affiliation and gender presentation in Southern Aroostook County. Multidimensional Place Orientation Metrics: Evaluating local attachment. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) 12, July 8-11, 2024.
Pabst, K. (2023). Northern Maine as a transition zone: Evidence from rhoticity in Southern Aroostook County English. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 51. New York City, NY, October 13-5.
Pabst, K. (2023). "Back in them days, you had chores to do": Demonstrative them and local affiliation in Southern Aroostook County English. Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society. Denver, CO, January 5-8.
Pabst, K. (2022). The influence of local affiliation on co-occurrence: Evidence from Aroostook County English. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 50. Palo Alto, CA and online, October 13-15, 2022.
Pabst, K., *Alanzi, A., *Aminoff, J., *Tayib, R. & Denis, D. (2022). Multimodal communication in the digital age: A cross-linguistic investigation of language variation in videoconferencing. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 50. Palo Alto, CA and online, October 13-15, 2022.
Pabst, K., *Brunet, S., Chasteen, A. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2022). Tracking language change in real time: Challenges for community-based research in the 21st century. Methods in Dialectology XVII. Mainz, Germany, August 1-5. [originally scheduled for August 2020; postponed due to COVID-19]
Tagliamonte, S. A., Chasteen, A. & Pabst, K. (2022). A great story: Aging and the adjectives of positive evaluation. Corpora for Language and Aging Research (CLARe) 5. Online, March 9-11.
Pabst, K., Tagliamonte, S. A., *Injac, M., *Locke, R. & *Wang, Y. (2021). Prepositional variation in two English dialects. Linguistweets. Online, December 5.
Ravindranath Abtahian, M., Nagy, N., Pabst, K. & Elango, V. (2021). Our languages, our lives during the pandemic. Part of the panel "Sociolinguistic research in the time of COVID: Methods, ethics, theory." Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Online, January 7-10.
Tagliamonte, S. A., Pabst, K. & Chasteen, A. (2021). Lifespan change and the linguistic quotative system as we age. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Online, January 7-10.
Pabst, K. (2020). Place identity and co-occurrence in Northern Maine. Linguistweets. Online, December 5.
Pabst, K. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2020). A diary-based study of language use during cognitive decline. Gerontological Society of America 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting. Online, November 4-6.
Pabst, K. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2019). "I/0 fed the squirrels:" The impact of cognitive decline on subject omission in one individual's diaries over the lifespan (1985-2016). New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48. Eugene, OR, October 10-12.
Pabst, K. (2019). Lifespan developments in spoken and written language. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 10. Leeuwarden, Netherlands, June 26-28.
Pabst, K. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2019). I think (that) social mobility matters: Variable complementizers in the individual and the community. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 10. Leeuwarden, Netherlands, June 26-28.
Gadanidis, T., Hildebrand-Edgar, N., Kiss, A., Konnelly, L., Pabst, K., Schlegl, L., Umbal, P. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2018). Stance, style, and semantics: Operationalizing insights from the semantic-pragmatic literature to account for linguistic variation. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47. New York, NY, October 18-21.
Tagliamonte, S. A. & Pabst, K. (2018). Cool system, lovely patterns, awesome results: A cross-variety comparison of adjectives of positive evaluation. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change 4. Helsinki, May 28-30.
Umbal, P., Schlegl, L., Pabst, K., Konnelly, L., Kiss, A., Gadanidis, T. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2018). “I think Ø it depends on the context:” Stylistic variation in the use of the zero complementizer. Change and Variation in Canada 10. Winnipeg, MB, May 4-5.
Gadanidis, T., Hildebrand-Edgar, N., Kiss, A., Konnelly, L., Pabst, K., Schlegl, L., Umbal, P. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2018). Operationalizing style in variationist analysis: stance-taking and English complementizers. Change and Variation in Canada 10. Winnipeg, MB, May 4-5.
Pabst, K., Cépeda, P., Kotek, H., Syrett, K., Donelson, K. & McCarvel, M. (2018). Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice (1997)? Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Salt Lake City, UT, January 4-7.
Pabst, K., Konnelly, L., Meslin, S., Wilson, F. & Nagy, N. (2017). Transmission of variation between Homeland and Heritage varieties: A comparative analysis of subject doubling in Faetar. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46. Madison, WI, November 2-5.
Pabst, K., Konnelly, L., Röthlisberger, M. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2017). The individual vs. the community: Evidence from (t,d) deletion in Canadian English. Methods in Dialectology XVI. Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11.
Pabst, K., Tagliamonte, S. A. & Students from the 2015 LSA Summer Institute (2016). Great, cool, and awesome: Adjectives of positive evaluation in Canadian English. Change and Variation in Canada 9. Ottawa, ON, May 7-8.
Pabst, K. (2016). A matter of politeness? Kinship terms as address forms in S’gaw Karen. 24th Annual Symposium about Language and Society. Austin, TX, April 15-16.
Pabst, K. & St. Pierre, T. (2013). Compliment response strategies of US-American learners of German. Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Columbus, OH, March 14-16.
Pabst, K. (2012). The pragmatic competence of L2 German learners: A field study. Annual Meeting of the Indiana Foreign Language Teacher Association. Indianapolis, IN, November 1-3.
Pabst, K. (2012). German compliment exchanges: A socio-pragmatic analysis. 1st International Pragmatics Conference of the Americas and 5th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics. Charlotte, NC, October 19-21.
Boltz, P. & Pabst, K. (2012). Customized-digital textbooks: Challenges and opportunities. INTESOL. Indianapolis, IN, October 6.
Pabst, K. (2024). The role of investment in the use of complementizer (that): Evidence from Northern Maine. Sociolinguistics Circle. Groningen, April 19.
Pabst, K., *Alanzi, A., *Aminoff, J., *Tayib, R. & Denis, D. (2023). Zooming in on emerging norms: Preliminary results from a cross-linguistic investigation of backchanneling. International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities. Mannheim, September 14-5.
Pabst, K. (2021). Putting "the other Maine" on the map: Phonological variation in Aroostook County English. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 49. Online, October 19-24.
Tagliamonte, S. A. & Pabst, K. (2018). Really, really rare: Repetition and contrastive focus reduplication in spoken English. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Salt Lake City, UT, January 4-7.
Konnelly, L., Pabst, K., Röthlisberger, M. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2017). Is (t,d) deletion a single, unified process? New evidence from Toronto English. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46. Madison, WI, November 2-5.
Tagliamonte, S. A., Pabst, K. & Students from the 2015 LSA Summer Institute (2016). As awesome poster: Variation and change in adjectives of positive evaluation. Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society. Washington, DC, January 7-10.
Pabst, K. (2013). Cross-cultural differences in German and US-American compliment exchanges. Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Dallas, TX, March 16-19.
Edler, S., Monsberger, T., Pabst, K., Rakocevic, D., Schlegl, L. (2019). The social and psychological challenges of fieldwork. Urban and rural language research: Variation, identity, innovation. Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, November 9-10.
Kučerová, I., Béjar, S., Ritter, B. & Pabst, K. (2017). Women in linguistics: Inclusiveness and next steps. Canadian Linguistics Association. Toronto, ON, May 27-29.
Pabst, K. (2019). The role of word frequency in sound change: [n(j)u] evidence from yod dropping in Toronto English. Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonetics/Phonology Workshop. Toronto, ON, March 29-31.
Pabst, K. (2019). Yod dropping in Toronto English: Evidence from a word production task. Buffalo-Toronto Workshop on Linguistic Perspectives on Variation. Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, March 16.
Tagliamonte, S. A. & Pabst, K. (2018). Variation and change in reduplication and repetition in Ontario dialects. Buffalo-Toronto Workshop on Linguistic Perspectives on Variation. Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, April 6.
Pabst, K. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2016). “It’s new, it’s wicked, it’s awesome:” Using adjectives to pinpoint the actuation of linguistic change. Welcome Workshop. Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, October 7.
Pabst, K. (2014). Public discourses on multiethnolects. Workshop on Social and Cultural Approaches to Language. Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, March 8.
Pabst, K. (2024). Stancetaking and morphosyntactic variation: Insights from two case studies of complementizer (that). Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Leiden, February 12.
Pabst, K. (2023). "We're not like them down there": A mixed-methods approach to investigating local affiliation in Northern Maine. KU Leuven, QLVL Research Seminar. Leuven, December 1.
Pabst, K. (2022). From the living room to the breakout room: Sociolinguistic methods in the digital era. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Leiden, September 27, 2022.
Pabst, K. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2022). The Vivian White project: Examining the effect of cognitive decline on one individual's language use in later life. Intersections Roundtable. Online/Duisburg, March 18.
Pabst, K. (2022). "The other Maine": Situating Aroostook County English in the New England dialect region. UBC Department of English Language and Literatures. Online, January 18, 2022.
Pabst, K. (2021). A [nu] look at yod dropping in Toronto English. International Society for the Linguistics of English. Online/Joensuu, June 2-5, 2021. [originally scheduled for June 2020; postponed due to COVID-19].
Pabst, K. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2019). “I think (that) you have to have a certain confidence”: The influence of urban professional life on complementizer that. Urban and rural language research: Variation, identity, and innovation. Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, November 9-10.
Pabst, K., Konnelly, L., Meslin, S., Wilson, F. & Nagy, N. (2017). Transmission of variation between Homeland and Heritage Faetar. Linguistics Speaker Series. Department of French Studies, Western University. London, ON, September 26.
Pabst, K. & Tagliamonte, Sali A. (2021). The Vivian White project: Using diaries to explore the relationship between language use and cognitive decline. Don Heights Unitarian Congregation. Toronto, ON, March 14, 2021.
Pabst, K., Konnelly, L., Meslin, S., Wilson, F. & Nagy, N. (2017). Variation and change in an endangered language: Subject doubling in Homeland and Heritage Faetar. Sociolinguistics Lab. Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, October 13.
Pabst, K. & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2017). “Hey, this is a cool change:” A variationist perspective on adjectives of positive evaluation. From Quaint to Cool: 150 Years of Language Change in Toronto. Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, March 3.
Pabst, K. (2015). Terms of address in S’gaw Karen. QP Day. Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, May 12.
*Hamel, D., *Injac, M., *Locke, R., *Wang, Y., Pabst, K. & Tagliamonte, S.A. (2020). Up to Parry Sound and out to Aroostook County: Comparing prepositions in Northern Ontario and Northern Maine. ROP Research Fair. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, October 1.