Fall 2023
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- Where: B-411 Wells Hall and Zoom.
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- When: Fridays, 2-3:30pm.
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- Contact: Jessica Shepherd, sheph157@msu.edu, for the Zoom link and password or to join the lab’s email list-serv and/or Microsoft Team.
September 1
Adam Barnhardt (Linguistics PhD student) will give a practice talk titled The developmental imperative and indexical fields: What conditions variation for use in early-adolescent stancetaking? Adam’s data come from the MI Diaries project.
September 8
Undergraduate research presentations by Caroline Zackerman and Samir Levitt, titles TBD
October 6
Practice talks for NWAV 51
- Yongqing Ye (Linguistics PhD), Nasalization over time in Michigan English
- Adam Barnhardt (Linguistics PhD), Not all sound changes in progress are used in early adolescent stance-taking
- Shannon Harasta (Second Language Studies PhD), Conversational comfort and linguistic insecurity with respect to gender, sexual orientation, and transness
October 20
Post-NWAV debriefing
November 3
Discussion of FirstView article in Language Variation and Change:
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Nesbitt, Monica. 2023. Phonological emergence and social reorganization: Developing a nasal /æ/ system in Lansing, Michigan. Language Variation and Change. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394523000182.
December 1
10-minute presentations on research in progress
- Dr. Betsy Sneller (Lab Co-Director) will talk about a project with Daniel Greeson (Stony Brook) on the pronunciation of /æ/ before /l/ in Michigan English.
- Dr. Suzanne Wagner (Lab Co-director), Emily Duggan (Linguistics MA) and Annan Kirk (Linguistics PhD) are comparing the discourse-pragmatics of voicemails and MI Diaries submissions.
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Jessica Shepherd (Linguistics PhD) is looking into story-trailing so and but in MI Diaries submissions.