Slides for the intro/welcoming statement can be found here.
Regular talks (20 minutes)
Barrett, Bonnie and Ryan Lepic: Examining the grammaticalization of ASL [what.do] (abstract here)
Culhane, Kirsten, Jen Hay, Simon Todd, Márton Sóskuthy, Forrest Panther, Jeanette King, and Peter Keegan: Vowel sequences in te reo Māori: variation, change, and morpheme boundary effects (abstract here)
Havet, Helline: Adopting a usage-based approach to describe alternations and instances of variation occurring in Japanese numeral complex words (abstract here)
Kapatsinski, Vsevolod: The role of hierarchical inference and frequency in favorable contexts in lexicalization of sound change (abstract here)
Lease, Sarah: The role of accumulated experience in Spanish-speaking children's /bdg/ realizations (abstract here)
Lease, Sarah and Esther Brown: Do code-switches impact effects of language-specific accumulated experience? (abstract here)
Nyhuis, Peter: Variable deletion of velars in Wubuy: evidence for sound change by lexical diffusion (abstract here)
Occhino, Corrine, Cem Barutcu, Krystin Balzarini, and Julie Hochgesang: Articulatory re-timing in the visual modality: do anticipatory or perseveratory processes dominate phonological change in fluid ASL use? (abstract here)
Stevens, Mary and Jonathan Harrington: Sound change is led by innovative words, not speakers: longitudinal evidence from /s/-retraction in Australian English (abstract here)
Weber, Julika and Ingo Plag: Modeling effects of L2 exposure in phonological acquisition: the DRESS and TRAP vowels in German-English interlanguage (abstract here)
Lightning talks (10 minutes)
Bolek, Maria: The interaction of frequency and phonotactics in Polish Yer alternations: experimental studies on Polish Yer alternations (abstract here)
Carlson, Matthew, Emily Herman, and Anne J. Olmstead: Target language and lexical representation modulate perceptual repair of L1-illicit phonotactic sequences
Finley, Sara and Viktoria Yeager: Blocked vs. interleaved training in artificial language learning (abstract here)
Herman, Emily, Karen Miller, and Matthew Carlson: Coda [ɾ] in Dominican Spanish-speaking children
Ko, Eon-Suk and Jongho Jun: Lexical frequency modulates phonological variation in child-directed speech (abstract here)
Conceiving of grammar as the cognitive representation of one’s experience with language means that common conceptions of how languages change need to be re-examined. Structuralist models require that change be an abrupt change in the grammar, which is often quite distanced from the details of language use. If cognitive representations contain details of usage, including phonetic detail as well as lexical and contextual information, all aspects of change can be gradual and can occur in language use. Moreover, if grammar is based on experience with language, then a separation of the individual from the community is not necessary, nor is it plausible to assume that speaker and listener play different roles in change. All language users have cognitive representations that reflect what they have heard and produced. Innovation itself is not an individual but a joint phenomenon since it arises from interaction among users who share common biases. These inherent biases make cross-generational directional change possible.