Special Sessions
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| Auer, Pfeiffer & Kaufmann – Dialect levelling in German Alemannic and a possible impact of Alsatian Alemannic |
| Bunk et al. – Sociolinguistic variation in Kiezdeutsch and Namdeutsch |
| Stratton & Beaman – Fei schee: The social meaning of intensifier use in Swabian |
| Adli & Engel – What can we learn from microinterviews? (Re-)Using data from an interdisciplinary survey on the very old |
| Büchler – Sociolinguistic variation in a non-native variety of Swiss German: Romansh migrants in the city of Berne |
| Vergeiner et al. – Diffusion of Viennese Monophthongization in Austria’s traditional dialects |
| Lenz, Fanta-Jende & Tavernier – From diglossia to diaglossia – Western speech repertoires in Austria revised |
| Discussion (Discussant: Sali Tagliamonte) |
| Grondelaers & Speelman – Measuring standard language dynamics in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch. Big data meets experimental attitude research |
| De Ridder – The usage of Belgian Dutch in translated and non-translated (audiovisual) fiction today and its sociolinguistic implications |
| Watt, Llamas & Brown – Comparing human and computer classification of phonetic features in the Scottish/English border region |
| Valls – Between dialectometry and sociolinguistics: the analysis of internal border effects |
| Konczewska – Cross-Border language contacts in the Polish-Belarusian border region in the 21st century |
| Dollinger – Modelling standard varieties: epistemological considerations, “fail-safes”, and the peculiar case of German |
Woolhiser – Identity, language attitudes and language use in the Belarusian-Russian
border region |
German in Austria (Thur, Parallel Sessions 9 & 10) – convenor: Lenz
| Lenz – Introduction: German in Austria – Variation across registers and structural levels |
| Fanta-Jende – Speech repertoires and varietal spectra - Eliciting phonological variation on the dialect-standard-axis |
| Wittibschlager & Korecky-Kröll – Subjunctive II and diminutive as hedging phenomena in German in Austria – Evidence from conversation data and experimental settings |
| Dorn & Ziegler – Intra- and interindividual variation of lexical variation – Analyses across Austria |
| Bülow & Elspaß – Investigating dialect syntax in Austria. Empirical findings and methodological considerations |
| Stöckle – Standard-dialect variation and ideas about linguistic norms in lexicographic data |
| McGowan – The limits of perception |
| Niedzielsi – When your brain tricks your ear |
| Preston – What lies underneath: Silversteinian nths, indexical fields, sociolinguistic monitors, and attitudinal cognitoria |
Mapping Dialect Variation and Change (Wed, Parallel Sessions 7 & 8) – convenors: Elspaß, Palliwoda & Spiekermann
| Elspaß & Möller – Mapping change in colloquial German in real and apparent time |
| Engsterhold, Fischer & Pheiff – Data Presentation in the REDE SprachGIS: Possibilities and Limits (Regionalsprache.de) |
| Jeszensky – Mapping techniques used to explore dialect variation and change in the project ‘Swiss-German Dialects Across Time and Space’ |
| Krefeld & Mutter – New visualization techniques in dialect geography: The merging of analytic and synthetic mapping in the virtual and interactive cartography of VerbaAlpina |
| Palliwoda & Spiekermann – Dialectology in work. Research Using the Visual Interface of the DMW-Project |
| Fruehwald – Doing Sociophonetics with Linguistic Atlas Project Data |
| Burkette & Antieau – Leaner, cleaner, and full of attitude: The new Atlas interview |
| Kretzschmar – The Fractal Structure of Language: How Many Dialects? |
| Lauersdorf – Use all the LAP data!: Moving toward inductive discovery of patterns and connections in the data of the Linguistic Atlas Project |
| Grama et al. – Socio-demographic trajectory, vowel normalization, and the marriage of auditory and acoustic approaches in assessing lifespan change |
| Bowie – How old are the moun[ʔə]ns in Utah? Utahn “t-dropping” over time and across the lifespan |
| Riverin-Coutlée & Harrington – In between Quebec and Hexagonal French: A longitudinal study of front vowels |
| Gerstenberg – Exploring language use and linguistic attitudes over a decade in later life: a generational “lect”? |
| Bülow & Wallner – Intra-speaker (in-)stability and varietal coherence across the lifespan: Findings from a real-time panel study in Austria |
| Beaman – (In)coherence across the linguistic architecture: change in Swabian across the lifespan |
| Matsumoto & Britain – A moribund Japanese colonial koiné in the Pacific: A panel study of language obsolescence |
