UC Davis Linguists at NWAV
The Department of Linguistics was well represented at the annual meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), which was held this year at the University of Ottawa, Oct 22-25.
NWAV is one of the most important international conferences for sociolinguistic research. UC Davis papers presented were:
- Silvie Liao, When regional dialect meets the standard it's not just about accommodation
- Lisa Bonnici, Postvocalic (r) in Maltese English: Lexonormative standard in a postcolonial variety
- Brandon Loudermilk, David Corina, and Eva Gutierrez, Cognitive capacities of the sociolinguistic monitor: Evidence from event-related potentials
- Robert Bayley (with Greg Guy, John Paolillo et al.), Workshop: Using statistical tools to explain variation
- Robert Bayley and Cory Messing, Final (z)-devoicing in Chicano English of South Texas
- Robert Bayley and Joseph Hill et al., Signing outside the box: The size of signing space in Black ASL
New Linguistics Club