Programme

All talks will be held Lecture Theatre G.03, 50 George Square. Accessibility information can be found here.

BSL interpretation will be available for the majority of conference sessions and all plenaries, posters, and breaks.
Talks not interpreted are starred (*) below.

A downloadable .pdf version of the programme can be accessed here.

DAY 1: Monday 26th June
08:00 — 09:00 Registration
09:00 — 09:15Welcome — conference opens
09:15 — 09:45Variation in Hebrew (ej) – an ethnic marker no more? – Roey Gafter
09:45 — 10:15Language attitudes condition gender-based asymmetries in child-directed speech: exploring morphological variation in Bangla – Poroma Mostafiz and Michael Ramsammy        
10:15 — 10:45Topical influence: The influence of topic on code-switching in the Kufr Qassem deaf community –
Duaa Haj Dawood, Rose Stamp and Rama Novogrodsky
10:45 — 11:15Coffee break
11:15 — 11:45A Cross-generational Language Study of Sheng –
Annah Kariuki, Tom Jelpke, Teresa Poeta and Colin Reilly         
11:45 — 12:15The L Heard? F0 and perceptions of sexuality in women – Salina Cuddy      
12:15 — 12:45Variation in English stop voicing contrast in Singaporean Chinese and Malay mothers –
Jasper Sim          
12:45 — 13:15Sociophonetic variation in /t/ in Australian Englishes spoken in two towns in Victoria, Australia –
Debbie Loakes, Kirsty McDougall and Adele Gregory
13:15 — 14:30Lunch and posters
14:30 — 15:00Reconciling spatial and dynamic aspects of vowel variation and change –
Sam Kirkham, Patrycja Strycharczuk and Emily Gorman
15:00 — 15:30Regional accent bias in children: investigating 5-year-old’s implicit attitudes –
Ella Jeffries, Laurel Lawyer, Amanda Cole and Stephanie Martin Vega  
15:30 — 16:00What you see is what you hear: Exposure to regionally-meaningful cues affects speech processing under adverse listening conditions – Ruohan Guo and Bronwen Evans   
16:00 — 16:30Coffee break
16:30 — 17:00A Sociophonetic study of tones on Jeju Island – Moira Saltzman      
17:00 — 17:30Off-Pitch? Linguistic Discrimination and Perceptions of Female Football Commentators –
Matthew Hunt, Louis Strange and Sophie Holmes-Elliott
17.30 — 18.30         PLENARY 1: Dr. Nick Palfreyman – ‘The BISINDO corpus in five clips: Towards a better
understanding of sign language variation and change’
18:30 — 20:30Wine Reception, InSpace
DAY 2: Tuesday 27th June
09:00 — 09:30Rhoticity in the north-west England: An analysis of working-class speech from Victorian north Lancashire* –
Claire Nance and Malika Mahamdi                
09:30 — 10:00An articulatory study of /s/-retraction: How does thish change behave across word boundaries?* –
George Bailey and Stephen Nichols
10:00 — 10:30PRICE and MOUTH four ways: nucleus quality, diphthong length, offglide quality and allophonic raising in Falkland Island English* –
Hannah Hedegard and David Britain   
10:30 – 11:00Vowel duration patterns in contemporary Scottish Standard English* – Andreas Weilinghoff
11:00 — 11:30Coffee break
11:30 — 12:00Linguistics & Public Engagement lightning talks
1: How might a future version of OED’s model for British English incorporate variation and change? –
Holly Dann, Matthew Moreland and Catherine Sangster            
2: Variationist sociolinguistics and verbatim theatre: co-producing entertaining and impactful public engagement –
Heike Pichler and Steve Gilroy   
12:00 — 12:30How multiethnic is a multiethnolect? The recontextualisation of Multicultural London English –
Paul Kerswill and Christian Ilbury
12:30 — 13:00Mouthing Variation in Kufr Qassem Deaf Community: The Impact of Social Dynamics – Marah Jaraisy               
13:00 — 14:30Lunch and posters
14:30 — 15:00Morpho-syntactic co-variation in English dialects –
Claire Childs                
15:00 — 15:30Morphosyntactic variation in an endangered creole language: A study of past tense marking in Unserdeutsch –
Lena Stückler                 
15:30 — 16:00What are the boundaries of variation in severe language endangerment? A pilot on production and perception of the subjunctive mood in Francoprovençal – Jonathan Kasstan          
16:00 — 16:30Coffee break
16:30 — 17:00Numeral formation in Filipino Sign Language: strategies and variation –
Liberty Notarte Balanquit, Suzanne Aalberse and Roland Pfau
17:00 — 17:30Three paths of diffusion of diminutive marking in Southern Bantu – Lutz Marten
17:30 — 18:30PLENARY 2: Dr. Hannah Gibson – ‘From varieties to variation: Contact, change and identity in Swahili‘ 
19:00                               Conference Dinner
09:30 — 10:30PLENARY 3: Dr. J Calder – ‘What can examining understudied populations show us about social meaning?‘
10:30 — 11:00Coffee break
11:00 — 11:30“I am very angry!”: A Taiwanese legislator’s deployment of linguistic and gestural resources in performing “new politics” –
Tsung-Lun Alan Wan and Nienen Bonnie Liu     
11:30 — 12:00 ‘Are you embarrassed about my accent?’ – Enregisterment and dialect socialisation in the ‘London Talks’ interviews – Johanna Gerwin
12:00 — 12:30Sociolinguistic Implications of Identity Shift – Nathalie Dajko and Katie Carmichael
12:30 — 14:30Lunch, posters, and business meeting
14:30 — 15:00Social structure and lexical variation: A cross-linguistic study of three sign languages –
Hannah Lutzenberger, Katie Mudd, Sara Lanesman, Rose Stamp and Adam Schembri      
15:00 — 15:30The acquisition of stylistic variation in Welsh-medium education –
Katharine Young, Jonathan Morris and Mercedes Durham     
15:30 — 16:00Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30Speak for Yersel: Crowdsourcing Scots in the 21st century –
Jennifer Smith, Brian Aitken, Marc Barnard and Mary Robinson         
16:30 — 17:30PLENARY 4: Prof. Isa Buchstaller – ‘Linguistic Malleability across the life-span:
A view from the North East of England‘
17:30 — 18:00   Conference closes

Posters (50 George Square, G.06, Accessibility information here)
Poster dimensions: 600mm x 900mm

Monday

  • Cannae or Dinnae Want Tae? – New Approaches to Eliciting and Predicting Phonetic and Prosodic Adaptations in Bidialectal Speakers –
    Sonja Schaeffler, James M. Scobbie and Janet Coulson           
  • “I Listen to Cool FM and Polish Radio – Everything Mixed”: To What Extent is the Irish-English of Polish Newcomers to Northern Ireland Similarly Fused? –
    Karen Corrigan and Mary Robinson         
  • “Fertile ground” for the actuation of sound change in historical sociophonetic data – Christopher Strelluf and Matthew Gordon             
  • The loss of rhoticity in Blackburn, Lancashire: Evidence from sociolinguistic interviews and ultrasound – Danielle Turton and Robert Lennon
  • ‘It’s something that I live’: the sociophonetics of bidialectalism in actress Gillian Anderson – Janet Coulson and Jane Stuart-Smith 
  • Discourse-pragmatic variation and change of TAYYIB in Najdi Arabic –
    Amereh Almossa      
  • Macro and Micro Perspectives on early Modern Scots –
    Sarah van Eyndhoven
  • V-to-C coarticulation in Spanish dorsal-fricative realisations –
    Michael Ramsammy and George Sakr           
  • Occupation vs. education as the optimal indicator of socioeconomic status: a study of the Manchester speech community – Maciej Baranowski and Danielle Turton         
  • Implicational hierarchies in language variation and change: The case of vowel pairs in Scottish Standard English – Ole Schützler
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  • Tuesday
  • (De)nasality in Greater Manchester: Observing variation with acoustics –
    Maya Dewhurst  
  • A Sociophonetic Study of the Velar Stop /k/ in the Dialect of Rijal Alma Arabic –
    Leila Yaqoub and Sam Hellmuth            
  • Tracing FACE and GOAT across the Lifespan: From Student to Lecturer –
    Carina Ahrens   
  • Analysing community-level sociolinguistic variation with machine learning methods – Roy Alderton                
  • Linguistic divergence across occupational groups in a Basque fishing town: Investigating archival recordings from old speakers – Azler Garcia            
  • ‘I wouldn’t call it home’: Tense shifts and chronotopes in international students’ narratives – Donghao Ouyang and Zuzana Elliott          
  • A panel investigation of quotative be like across the lifespan –
    Anne-Marie Moelders              
  • T-glottaling in East Sussex: Language change beyond the gender binary –
    Bradley Mackay                 
  • Analysing vocal settings to help understand segmental variation –
    Jessica Wormald, Paul Foulkes, Philip Harrison, Vincent Hughes, Chenzi Xu, David van der Vloed, Finnian Kelly and Francis Nolan 
  • Wednesday
  • Accents of Southeast England: feature co-variation vs. speaker’s self identification – Amanda Cole and Patrycja Strycharczuk                
  • How good are people at recognising Northern English accents? –
    Chris Montgomery, Hielke Vriesendorp and Gareth Walker           
  • Typicality and regional salience: Results from a gamified experiment on speaker recognition – Vincent Hughes, Carmen Llamas and Thomas Kettig  
  • A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Name Signs in Israeli Sign Language – Sara Lanesman
  • Familiarity affects Perception but not Production of Singular They – Nadir Junco
  • Mergers and acquisitions: a case of structural change across the lifespan –
    Robert James Hellyer, Marc Barnard and Sophie Holmes-Elliott
  • The style-shifting of /s/ among men beauty vloggers on YouTube – Zhaoxi Yan
  • New progressions of an old variable: investigating possible consonant mergers in an Island variety – Jenny Amos        
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