GURT 2022 Program
All times listed here are in Eastern Time (New York/Washington D.C.) Note: Daylight Saving Time in Washington DC will begin Sunday, March 13 at 2am, “springing us ahead” 1 hr! This site can help you sort out the time difference for your location each day.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
13:00-13:30 Informal orientation [Room: Large Hall]. If you are new to Gather.town, sign in early to get to know the platform and ask for assistance if needed!
13:30-14:00 Opening & Welcome: Jen Nycz & Victor Fernandez-Mallat [Room: Large Hall]
14:00-14:15 Break
14:15-15:15 Plenary speaker: Abby Walker (Virginia Tech) “You kinda help make things easier”: Second dialect acquisition (or the lack thereof) as strategy [Room: Large Hall]
15:15-15:30 Break
- Session 1. Tense/Aspect Leveling [Room: Large Hall]
- 15:30-16:00 Sarah Kirk-Browne Dialect change and population growth in English regions: a corpus study of past-tense BE variation
- 16:00-16:30 Chad Howe & Stephen Fafulas Past reference in Yagua Spanish: Internal change or dialect contact?
- Session 2. Contact between national varieties of Spanish [Room: Small Hall]
- 15:30-16:00 María Clara von Essen Varieties of Spanish in contact. The case of Argentinean Immigrants in Málaga (Spain)
- 16:00-16:30 Isaac Galassi Oyarzun & Javier González-Riffo Stylistic variation and dialect contact: a case study of forms of address in colloquial conversations between Venezuelan immigrants and Chileans in Santiago de Chile
16:30-16:45 Break
- Session 3. Ideologies and knowledge of varieties [Room: Large Hall]
- Session 4. Language acquisition and SDA [Room: Small Hall]
- 16:45-17:15 Ksenia Gnevsheva, Anita Szakay & Sandra Jansen L2 speakers are more flexible than L1 speakers in second dialect acquisition
- 17:15-17:45 Dennis Preston What sort of language acquisition is not dialect contact?
17:45-18:45 Social hour in the virtual cat cafe
Friday, March 11, 2022
13:00-14:00 Plenary speaker: Paul Kerswill (University of York) “The emergence of a multiethnolect: Language shift and dialect contact in London” [Room: Large Hall]
14:00-14:15 Break
- Session 5: Second Dialect Acquisition [Room: Large Hall]
- 14:15-14:45 Yoojin Kang Acquisition of New Dialect Features by Seoul and North Kyungsang Korean Speakers
- 14:45-15:15 Gustavo Silveira Is prosody more immune to the effects of dialect contact than segmental features? Evidence from a study on the speech of internal migrants in Brazil
- 15:15-15:45 Scott Kunkel, Esther de Leeuw & Leigh Oakes The perception and production of two vocalic contrasts in a second dialect of French
- Session 6. Experimental approaches [Room: Small Hall]
- 14:15-14:45 Aini Li, Gareth Roberts Co-occurrence, extension, and social salience: the emergence of indexicality in an artificial language
- 14:45-15:15 Jorge Ramos de Jesus & Christine Shea Who lateralizes matters
- 15:15-15:45 Chloé Lybaert, Sarah Van Hoof & Bart Deygers Undergraduates’ attitudes towards lecturers’ language use and ethnic background in Flemish higher education: A contextualised speaker evaluation experiment
15:45-16:00 Break
- Session 7. Identity and production patterns [Room: Large Hall]
- 16:00-16:30 Jungah Lee, Kaori Idemaru & Charlotte Vaughn Place identity of North Korean refugees living in South Korea: An Analysis of Stop Productions
- 16:30-17:00 Karen Beaman da isch einfach eine Sehnsucht danach ‘there is simply a longing for it’: Indexicalities of linguistic convergence and maintenance
- 17:00-17:30 Will Clapp, Lily Clifford, Evelyn Fernández Lizárraga & Rob Podesva Intra-Latinx Variation in the Prosodic Rhythm of English in California: The Influences of Dialect Contact and Language Ideology
- Session 8. Mobile speakers [Room: Small Hall]
- 16:00-16:30 Yoshiyuki Asahi Japanese settler’s dialect contact in Hawaii: a case of complementizer to deletion
- 16:30-17:00 Sarah Grossenbacher Dialect contact and “All the Fun of the Fair”: Dialect variation among a group of Traveling Showpeople
- 17:00-17:30 Sara Lynch Quotatives in Kosraean English: An analysis of the gender paradox in a mobile multilingual community
- Panel session 1 [Room: Panel Session]
- 16:00-17:30 Piero Visconte, Rey Romero, Lillie Padilla & Hiram Smith Afro-Hispanic Linguistic: Methodologies and challenges
17:30-18:30 Social hour in the virtual cat cafe
Saturday, March 12, 2022
13:00-14:00 Plenary speaker: Enam Al-Wer (University of Essex) “Focusing and feature complexity in Amman Arabic” [Room: Large Hall]
14:00-14:15 Break
- Session 9. Local vs. supralocal in the Arabic-speaking world [Room: Large Hall]
- 14:15-14:45 Richard Nedjat-Haiem Dialects in the Soaps: Embracing Diversity versus Imposing Uniformity in the Gulf
- 14:45-15:15 Ourooba Shetewi Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in a dialect contact situation: A study on Arabic
- Session 10. New Dialect Formation [Room: Small Hall]
- 14:15-14:45 David Hornsby A ‘Northern’ dialect in South-East England: evidence for koinéization in a Kent mining village
15:15-15:30 Break
- Session 11. Education-induced contact [Room: Large Hall]
- 15:30-16:00 Raquel Freitag Academic mobility and grammatical patterns in Brazilian higher education
- 16:00-16:30 Maria Camila Franco Rodriguez Dialect contact, stylistic variation, and identity among Creole-speaking Raizales
- Session 12. Leveling (sounds) [Room: Small Hall]
- 15:30-16:00 Allison Shapp, Michael Marinaccio & John Victor Singler Unwitting Convergence: Kolokwa and Liberian Settler English
- 16:00-16:30 Xanthi Katsanta & Dimitris Papazachariou Stress variation on plural forms of past tense verbs due to contact conditions: The case of dialect of Agrinio in Southern Greece
16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-17:45 Plenary speaker: Livia Oushiro (University of Campinas) “A few open questions in the study of dialect contact” [Room: Large Hall]
17:45-18:45 Social hour in the virtual cat cafe
Sunday, March 13, 2022
13:00-14:00 Plenary speaker: Daniel Erker (Boston University) “On the (non)uniformity of contact outcomes: A comparison of Spanish in New York and Boston” [Room: Large Hall]
14:00-14:15 Break
- Session 13. Contact effects on sounds [Room: Large Hall]
- 14:15-14:45 Tamam Mohamad Is there really a light [q]? Dialectal contact outcome in the coastal city of Tartus in Syria
- 14:45-15:15 Wesley Lincoln & Rebecca Starr T-flapping in Singapore English: Americanisation, Innovation, or Both?
- 15:15-15:45 Chad Hall Uncovering a Focused Lebanese American Ethnolect in Dearborn Michigan
- Panel session 2 [Room: Panel Session]
- 14:15-15:45 Anja Hasse, Patrick Mächler, Randi Neteland, Steffen Höder, Arjen Versloot, Nantke Pecht, Sebastian Kürschner, Christoph Purschke, Susanne Oberholzer & Guido Seiler Panel discussion on Germanic dialect contact
15:45-16:15 Close and farewell [Room: Large Hall]