Fall 2024
- Where: B-411 Wells Hall and Zoom.
- When: Tuesdays, 12:30-2:00pm.
- Contact: Connor Bechler, bechler4@msu.edu, for the Zoom link and password or to join the lab’s email list-serv and/or Microsoft Team.
September
Sep 17th: Senior Thesis proposal presentation/fall planning
October
Note: There will be presentations on German sociolinguistics in October and November. Details will be advertised via sociolab@list.msu.edu.
Oct 1st: Presentation of work in progress by Annan Kirk.
Oct 4th: [Friday at 1pm] Survey design feedback for Emily Duggan.
Oct 11: [Friday at 3pm] MSU Linguistics Colloquium: Dr. Maeve Eberhardt (University of Vermont), 3:00-4:00pm, on Zoom. From rights to justice for all: The discourse of abortion in old and new media.
Oct 29th: NWAV practice talk: (1) Jess Shepherd, Pronunciation in the [mɪɾən]: Post-tonic /t/ flapping in Michigan: a non-white male-led change (joint work with Drake Howard and Betsy Sneller; (2) Connor Bechler, Evaluating wav2vec2 speech recognition and forced alignment on a multi-varietal language documentation collection.
November
Nov 5th: NWAV practice talk: Adam Barnhardt, Patterns of social meanings indexed to Low-Back-Merger Shifted vowels in Michigan.
Nov 12th: NWAV debrief
Nov 19th: (1) ‘Open mic’ research chat; (2) Progressive outliers in listener perception of sound change (Dr. Saya Uehara)
December
Dec 3rd: Comp 2 practice (Adam) and ADS practice talk Automatic analysis of audio diary speech duration and relative speech volume (Connor)
Dec 6 [Friday at 1pm]: ADS practice talk (Ife): “If you think that was bad, then just listen to this…”: A case study of oral narrative development.
Dec 11th: (Wednesday) LIN 871 Project proposals — tentative
Dec 17th: (tentative) ADS practice talk backup date.