Main session papers (alphabetically by first author ONLY)
All authors are listed in their session slots on the day – please check out the day-by-day programme!
(last updated July 1, 2022)
Abou Taha – Palestinian Arabic in the Diaspora Evidence from dialect contact in Lebanon
Adler – Measuring dialect competence
Ahlers – Small Scale Dialectology– possibilities and challenges
Alfaraz – Diaspora ecologies and dialect attitudes
Asahi – Dialect contact, change and maintenance
Bartelds – Deep acoustic representations for clustering Dutch dialect pronunciations
Baxter – Extracting Non–Standard Varieties via Twitter API
Baxter – Infinitival ain’t in AAE
Bleaman – A computational approach to detecting the envelope of variation
Bohmann – Genre coherence and distinctiveness in the ICE
Bozovic – On Dialect Polyphony in the Central South Slavic Continuum
Butterworth – Discourse Marker Use in Ontarian Laurentian French
Buurke – Evaluating Voices of Groningen
Cardoso – A multidimensional approach to investigating Accent Attitudes in Britain
Casanova – PP Complements in Vernacular Spanish
Celik – A proto–Ryukyuan Database
Cukor–Avila – Is a sociolinguistic interview a useful tool for gathering data on everyday linguistic behaviour?
De Tier – Towards a new lexicographical Infrastructure for the Dutch Dialects: The Database of Southern Dutch Dialects project.
Douglas – Democratising dialect fieldwork and research: desirable, doable, or doomed?
Duhalde – Variation and change within a border area: the case of the Basque language
Durham – Quantifying potential: Non–canonical word order through a variationist perspective
Embleton – Dialect Variation as Geography
Evans –Heterogenity in Language Regard
Fuchs – The Linguistic Expression of Persuasion across Varieties of English
Gardner – Variation in American English
Gerwin – Studying enregisterment in the speech community: the ‘London talks’ interviews
Habib – Structural and Social Variable use of Negators in Syrian Arabic
Hahn – Mapping regional variation of speech rate using automatic measurements of amplitude envelope peaks
Hattori – Classification of Kansai dialects
Heeringa – LED–A: a web app for measuring distances in the sound components among local dialects
Hinskens – Dialect perception versus dialect production: how are they related?
Hirano – Directional shift in a linguistic change
Inoue – Diffusion and obsolescence of dialect vocab
Jahns – Revealing Speakers’ Justifications for linguistic choices
Jamieson – Individual dialect attrition as an outcome of mobility: A methodological case study
Jeszenszky – Linguistic Mobility Index: Quantifying the effect of mobility on dialect change
Jordan – Angola Language Mapping Project
Jose – 50 Years of PRICE variation in Kentuckiana
Kapia – Exploring developmental norms of vowel production in the Gheg dialect of Albanian
Kathrein – On the verticality of laypersons‘ dialect
Katsanta – High Vowel Loss in the South–Greek dialect of Agrinio: Acoustic analysis within the framework of Dialect Contact
Katsanta – High Vowel Loss in the South–Greek dialect of Agrinio: Acoustic analysis within the framework of Dialect Contact
Klotz – Linguisitic diversity across languages and registers
Knooihuizen – A Sociophonetic Study of Bilingual Transmasculine Voices
Korkus – Using Conversational Grasps to Elicit Multilingual Speech from Swedish–Estonian Teens
Kuparinen – Dialectometry with Topic Models
Lappalainen – How to study the relationship between language use and class distinctions?
LeBlanc – Yes/No–Questions in Arcadian French
Lindström – From Pronoun to Zero Marking
Mechler – Exploring the effects of age and gender in sociolinguistic perception: Evidence from Tyneside English
Mereu – Different methods for spontaneous speech elicitation
Newman – A comparative study of 2nd person singular address in Spanish: A translation task study
Niehaus – The atlas of everday German in Salzburg
Nove – Minimal minimal pairs: Phonetic Contrast in Unterland Yiddish vowels
Orozco – Cross–Linguistic Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Pronominal Expression
Orozco – Subject Pronoun Expression
Pabst – Tracking Language Change in Real–Time
Penry Williams – Comparing language attitudes (Australian English)
Post – Regional Phonetic Variation in the Speech of Young Urban Russians
Ramisch – Past Tense and Past Participle Forms from a Variationist Phonetic Point of View
Regnoli – Subjective Dialect Division in Indian Varieties of English
Roeder & Gardner – Low Back Merger Shift
Rosseel & Zenner – Measuring language attitudes towards ethnolectal features (Swiss–German)
Rupp – A real world method for historical sociolinguistics
Scherr – Mixed Method Analysis of Reduced Article Forms in the South and Central Bavarian Transition Area
Scherrer – Corpus–based compilation dialectology with normalizations
Schilling – Identifying keywords and phrases in British Covid–19 Newspaper Discourse
Schönberg – A measure for heterogeneity in spatial language variation
Sekeres – A cognitive geographic approach to dialectology
Siewert – Low–Saxon corpus–based dialectometry
Soukup – A Variationist Linguistic Landscape Study of English
Spagnol – Lexical Variation in the Dialects of Malta and Gozo
Stange – I could just be sat here all day
Stevenson – Preposition–drop and ditransitives in North West British English
Stiglbauer – The interviewer’s role in socio–linguistic interviews
Strobel – Phonological Change in the Upper Rhine Area
Sung – Applying the state–of–the–art tonal distance metrics to large dialectal data
Taipale – Individual Sensitivity to Change in the Lingua Franca Use of English
Takemura – New criteria for selecting a local dialect speaker
Vargha – Disguised variation: the case of /e/ in Hungarian dialectology
Vihman – Teenagers’ Language in Estonia
Wagner – Longitudinal Sociolinguistic Research Project as Brands Lunch
Watanabe – Americanness in British song lyrics
Yurayong – Convergence and Divergence of the Tone Paradigms across Tai Dialects in the 21st Century