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 (new window) [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 (new window)
  • 16:00-16:30 Chad Howe & Stephen Fafulas Past reference in Yagua Spanish: Internal change or dialect contact? (new window)

• 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) (new window)
  • 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 (new window)

16:30-16:45 Break

• Session 3. Ideologies and knowledge of varieties [Room: Large Hall]
  • 16:45-17:15 Carly Dickerson Sociolinguistic knowledge of dialect variation among Albanian heritage speakers in the United States (new window)
  • 17:15-17:45 Anna Bax The ideological dimensions of language naming practices in the multidialectal California Mixtec diaspora (new window)

• 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 (new window)
  • 17:15-17:45 Dennis Preston What sort of language acquisition is not dialect contact? (new window)

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” (new window) [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 (new window)
  • 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 (new window)
  • 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 (new window)

• 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 (new window)
  • 14:45-15:15 Jorge Ramos de Jesus & Christine Shea Who lateralizes matters (new window)
  • 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 (new window)

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 (new window)
  • 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 (new window)
  • 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 (new window)

• 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 (new window)
  • 16:30-17:00 Sarah Grossenbacher Dialect contact and “All the Fun of the Fair”: Dialect variation among a group of Traveling Showpeople (new window)
  • 17:00-17:30 Sara Lynch Quotatives in Kosraean English: An analysis of the gender paradox in a mobile multilingual community (new window)

• Panel session 1 [Room: Panel Session]
  • 16:00-17:30 Piero Visconte, Rey Romero, Lillie Padilla & Hiram Smith Afro-Hispanic Linguistic: Methodologies and challenges (new window)

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” (new window) [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 (new window)
  • 14:45-15:15 Ourooba Shetewi Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in a dialect contact situation: A study on Arabic (new window)
• 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 (new window)

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 (new window)
  • 16:00-16:30 Maria Camila Franco Rodriguez Dialect contact, stylistic variation, and identity among Creole-speaking Raizales (new window)
• 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 (new window)
  • 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 (new window)

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” (new window) [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” (new window) [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 (new window)
  • 14:45-15:15 Wesley Lincoln & Rebecca Starr T-flapping in Singapore English: Americanisation, Innovation, or Both? (new window)
  • 15:15-15:45 Chad Hall Uncovering a Focused Lebanese American Ethnolect in Dearborn Michigan (new window)
• 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 (new window)

15:45-16:15 Close and farewell [Room: Large Hall]