MSU Socio people at NWAV 48

Current and former Michigan State sociolinguists were recently at the NWAV 48 (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) conference, October 10-12. The Eugene, Oregon location meant that not everyone could make the long trip, but presenters included:

• Xiaoshi Li.   
  • Object pronominal expression in Mandarin Chinese.
• Mohammed Ruthan.   
  • Attitudes toward Jazani Arabic.
• Irina Zaykovskaya.   
  • Remarkable LIKE in the non-native repertoire: Usage, judgments, attitudes.
• Xiaomei Wang and Suzanne Evans Wagner.   
  • Local identity and standardization: Evidence from Tianjin Chinese tone sandhi.

Former MSU Sociolinguistics students Monica Nesbitt (now a post-doc at Dartmouth College) and James Stanford were also there, along with former faculty Dennis Preston and Marisa Brook. We enjoyed a great MSU+affiliates dinner on the Friday night.

Thanks to the members of the lab who gave us valuable feedback on our practice presentations!