UKLVC-10 University of York 2015 – draft programme, correct as at 14 May 2015 Tuesday 1 September 9.15 prelims 9.30 keynote 1 Andy Wedel 10.30 break Salience and exemplar models Márton Sóskuthy and Jennifer Hay. A real-time study of the accumulation of local phonetic effects in lexical representations: changing 11.00 1 word durations in New Zealand English 11.30 2 Marten Juskan. Knowing what you want to hear - salience and exemplar priming 12.00 3 Christian Langstrof. What’s in the variable? – Assessing the relative strength of phonetic variables in sociophonetic learning 12.30 lunch posters 1

14.00 4 14.30 5 15.00 6 15.30 break

16.00 16.30 17.00 17.30 18.00

7 8 9 10 end

Levelling and diffusion Lynn Clark, Kevin Watson and Ksenia Gnevsheva. A multi-locality, multi-variable perspective on accent levelling Damien Mooney. Transmission and Diffusion: Linguistic Change in the Regional French of Béarn Paul Kerswill. Sociolinguistic typology, dialect formation and dialect levelling in industrial and post-industrial Britain: vernacular speech since 1800 UTI Eleanor Lawson, Lydia Mills and Jane Stuart-Smith. Variation in tongue and lip movement in the GOOSE vowel across British Isles Englishes. Danielle Turton and Maciej Baranowski. Absence of a blocking r[ʏɫ]?: the presence of /u/-fronting before /l/ in Manchester Sam Kirkham and Jessica Wormald. Articulatory timing in a contact variety: Liquids in Bradford Asian English Patrycja Strycharczuk and James Scobbie. Oh Target, Where Art Thou? Measuring vowels before liquids

1

Wednesday 2 September 9.30 keynote 2 Ghada Khattab 10.30 break Perception 11.00 11 Ella Jeffries, Paul Foulkes and Carmen Llamas. Pre-schoolers’ categorisation of speakers by regional accent 11.30 12 Mohammed Hussain and Anita Szakay. The perceptual salience of speech rhythm in Multicultural London English 12.00 13 Andrew Euan MacFarlane and Jen Hay. Voice Activated: Spreading Activation and Indexicality 12.30 lunch posters 2 Style and individual variation 14.00 14.30 15.00 15.30

14 15 16 break

16.00 17

Anna Jespersen. “That’s us mob?”: high rising terminals and speech style in Aboriginal English Mercedes Durham. Performing the Welsh accent on Twitter: How many ways can you spell the Valleys? Patricia Cukor-Avila. Growing INTO and IN a vernacular: A quantitative analysis of individual variation over time Celtic Claire Nance, Wilson McLeod, Bernadette O' Rourke and Stuart Dunmore. Phonetic variation among adult Scottish Gaelic speakers in Glasgow and Edinburgh Sophie Holmes-Elliott and Jennifer Smith. DRESS-lowering: chain, analogy or compensatory process? A sociophonetic investigation into the underlying mechanism of a phonetic shift Warren Maguire. A new look at the relationship between the MEAT and MATE lexical sets in Mid-Ulster English

16.30 18 17.00 19 17.30 end conference dinner

2

Thursday 3 September 9.30 keynote 3 Benedikt Smrecsányi 10.30 break Indexicality 11.00 20 Zac Boyd. Indexing sexual orientation in non-native speakers of English 11.30 21 Chris Montgomery and Emma Moore. Real-time perceptions of regional speech 12.00 22 Kirsty McDougall, Toby Hudson and Nathan Atkinson. Perceived Voice Similarity in Standard Southern British English and York English 12.30 lunch posters 3 & business meeting

14.00 23 14.30 24 15.00 25 15.30 16.00 16.30 17.30

Contact and geographical variation Jonathan Morris. Phonetic variation in a long-term contact situation: /l/ in Welsh-English bilingual speech Uri Horesh. Language contact in Palestine: Changes from above or from below? Koen Sebregts. From coda to coda, from town across town: The rise of coda approximant r in Dutch Karen Corrigan, Adam Mearns and Jennifer Thorburn. Language variation and the migrant experience: A synchronic and diachronic examination of the acquisition and maintenance of Northern Irish English

26 break keynote 4 Lesley Milroy end

3

poster papers accepted (excluding withdrawals notified by 14 May) Ania Kubisz, Charlie Frowd, Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt. Identification of speaker social-indexical information from localised gender-correlated phonetic variants Anita Auer. The historical urban vernacular of York in the later Middle Ages Anita Szakay and Eivind Torgersen. Phonetic features of Multicultural London English at the subsegmental and suprasegmental levels Anthony Bour. Syntax of Modal Combinations in Southern Scotland Betsy Sneller. A community divided: co-occurrence in salient feature shift Betsy Sneller and Sabriya Fisher. Syntax, Stigmatization, and the Sociolinguistic Monitor Charlotte Graham and Laurel MacKenzie. The PM’s t’s: David Cameron’s t-glottalling across the lifespan Chloe Diskin. Language variation and integration among post-Celtic Tiger migrants in Dublin, Ireland Christina Gomes and Marcelo Melo. Linguistic continuity, social discontinuity and the limits of linguistic constraints Claire Childs. Change in progress, innit? A cross-dialectal perspective on negative polarity tags in British English David Tézil. A Variationist Study of the Haitian Post-posed Determiner LA in Non-nasalized Contexts David Warren and William Barras. The Scottish Vowel Length Rule in North East Scotland: comparing reading-style and semi-spontaneous speech data Duncan Robertson, Jane Stuart-Smith, Rachel Smith and Christoph Scheepers. Does socially salient phonetic variation affect automatic social evaluations? Erin Carrie. Re-evaluating the Relationship between Language Attitudes and Language Variation Fabienne Westerberg and Eleanor Lawson. Sociolinguistic variation in the articulation of Swedish Viby-i Fergus O'Dwyer. A sociophonetic analysis of STRUT and FOOT in a Dublin suburb George Bailey. Linguistic markers of England’s north-south dialectal divide: an attitudinal study of BATH and STRUT Geraldine Kwek. Rhotics in Singapore English - Variation between two ethnic groups Gerry Howley. Roma acquisition of the Manchester lettER 4

Gisela Tomé Lourido and Bronwen G. Evans. Effects of language choice on bilingual speech processing in a minority language community: the case of Galician neofalantes. Gustavo Guajardo. The Distribution of the Present and Past Subjunctive in Argentinean Spanish Hannah Leach. “I never heard 'shoes' pronounced 'shooers' before I moved here”: the /u:/ vowel in Stoke-on-Trent English Hannah Shaw and Paul Foulkes. Real-time change in Prince William’s speech Helene Hildremyr. New-dialect formation: language changes in Odda and Tyssedal over the last hundred years Ichiro Ota and Hitoshi Nikaido. Tonal Variation in Kagoshima Japanese and Its Constraining Factors Isabelle Lemee. What does the future in northwestern Ontario hold for us? Jane Stuart-Smith, Rachel Macdonald, Brian Jose and Ludger Evers. Considering the evidence for real-time change in a standard variety: acoustic vowel quality in Scottish Standard English in Glasgow Jennifer Smith and Sophie Holmes-Elliott. Parenting style: From preschool to preadolescence in the acquisition of variation Jessica Wormald. Voice quality variation in Panjabi-English: Characterisation using the Vocal Profile Analysis scheme Joanna Nykiel. Ellipsis alternation and principles of efficient language processing Joel Wallenberg, Josef Fruehwald and Danielle Turton. Gender and linguistic variation: a role for hormonal organising effects? John Moore and Rodolfo Mata. Emerging language change in high proficiency Heritage Spanish Speakers John Weston. Functional commensurability in discourse-level variation: The case of epistemic stance Josef Fruehwald. Social Meaning and Information Theory Julia Forsberg, Johan Gross, Jonas Lindh and Joel Åkesson. A forensic and sociophonetic perspective on a new corpus of urban speech Kajsa Djarv. Competing Grammars: Determinism in New Dialect Formation Kate Burland. A Border Township Under Siege: Phonological Resistance in an Ex-mining Community of Barnsley. Kevin Watson, Jen Hay, Jane Stuart-Smith, Lynn Clark and Tamara Rathcke. How Scottish ancestry influenced early New Zealanders' vowel lengths

5

Kim Witten. A Mechanism for Enregisterment: Message Chains Explored Kinga Kozminska. Language contact in the Polish community in the UK – a sociophonetic study. Kirstie Fairnie. AN INVESTIGATION OF VOWEL USE IN ORKNEY SCOTS Laurel Mackenzie and Grace Ormerod. Situating the individual in late-stage language change: Evidence from Received Pronunciation Lisa Jeon. Korean American Vowel Variants in Houston Urban English: Evidence for an Emerging Ethnic Identity? Lorella Viola. Towards an empirical approach to the study of dubbing-induced language change in Italian Maciej Baranowski. The sociolinguistics of an incipient sound change: the fronting of the front-upgliding vowels in Manchester English Matthias Heyne and Donald Derrick. Why expert listeners might be able to distinguish differences in sound produced by brass players from different language backgrounds Melody Pattison. Achterhoeks Vowel Shift: A Study of /o/-/a/ and /i/-/ɛi/ Michaela Hejna. Pre-aspiration and gender in Aberystwyth English Moragh Gordon. The relative importance of an urban vernacular: relativizers in early modern Bristolian Moun Shin. A shift in the use of South Korean honorifics and address terms Natalie Braber and Nicholas Flynn. Yod-dropping in the East Midlands Nicole Holliday. Sounding Mixed: Use of Suprasegmental Feature Variation in Biracial Identity Construction and Performance Paul Cooper. ‘Deregisterment’ and ‘fossil forms’: the cases of gan and mun in “Yorkshire” dialect Pavadee Saisuwan. Prosodic variation in speech of Thai men who identify with non-normative male roles Péter Rácz, Clay Beckner, Jennifer Hay and Janet B. Pierrehumbert. Morphological convergence in an online task Rob Drummond. Tales of the unpredictable: Researching Urban British English. Robert Potter. A dialect in peril? Investigating two phonological features of the Suffolk dialect.

6

Rosalba Nodari. Regional variation and local identities: the case of voiceless stops aspiration in southern Italy Rosemary Hall. Introducing Bermudian English: A Truly Mid-Atlantic Variety Sabriya Fisher. Innovation in the Tense-Aspect System of AAVE: The Emergence of Preterit Ain’t Sandra Jansen. Disentangling Levelling Processes in the THOUGHT vowel in a Peripheral Town Saudi Sadiq. Dialect Convergence in Egypt: [q], [ʔ] or [ɡ] Shivonne Gates. Style and Identity in African American English: A multi-dimensional approach Skaiste Aleksandraviciute. Variation and the indexical field of Lithuanian (ė) and (o) in urban young adults’ speech in Vilnius Stefania Marzo. Standardization dynamics in contemporary Italian: a sociolectometric approach Victoria Dickson and Lauren Hall-Lew. Class, Gender and Rhoticity: The Social Stratification of Postvocalic /r/ in Edinburgh Speech Vineeta Chand, Sophie Bailey-Smith, Emily Bettini, Claudia Bish, Lewis Brown, Alina Grafin Von Koenigsmarck, Constantina Henderson, Rob Hill, Martha Kaminaridi, Andria Kyriakou, Natalie Lawrence, Kelda Leevers, Natalie Mevo, Lydia Mills, Avgi Neofytou, Laura Nodoph, Omar Omokhodion, Curtis Pressman, Mark Rogers, Nansia Stylianou, Siddika Uddin, Danielle Wilson and Xian Wright. Some[f]ing interesting in Colchester: TH-fronting by more educated speakers with non-local parents Xosé Luís Regueira. Language Change and Maintenance in Galician

7