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T H U R S D A Y , O C T O B E R 1 0 th (registration: noon-8:30pm in front of Linguistics Department, Building 460)
8:30-12:10	AAVE Preconference Meeting Location: CERAS (Center for Education Research at Stanford), Room 204
	W O R K S H O P S I Location: Meyer Library, Room 183	W O R K S H O P S II Location: Meyer Library, Room 184
1:15-2:45	Using VARBRUL John Paolillo [Description]	Introduction to Non-Minimalist Syntactic Theories Tom Wasow [Description]
3:00-4:30	Corpus Linguistics Emily Bender [Description]	Ethnography and Variation Penny Eckert and Rudi Gaudio [Description]
4:45-6:15	Stochastic Optimality Theory and Variation Joan Bresnan and Chris Manning [Description]	Using Video in Research Candy Goodwin [Description]
6:15-8:00	Dinner
	P L E N A R Y A D D R E S S (Location: Cubberley Building, Main Auditorium)
8:00-9:15	Reconsidering the Development of African American English: Evidence from Isolated Southern Dialects Walt Wolfram (William C. Friday Professor, North Carolina State University) (Note: Our plenary speaker for Thursday night is replacing Sonja Lanehart, who unfortunately cannot attend due to illness)
9:30-10:30	Reception (Location: Cubberley Building, Lobby)
F R I D A Y , O C T O B E R 1 1 th (registration:7:30am-7:30pm in Tressider Lounge)
	S E S S I O N 1 A Acoustic Sociophonetics Location: Tressider Union Building (OAK WEST ROOM)	S E S S I O N 1 B Syntactic and Morphological Variation I Location: Tressider Union Building (OAK EAST ROOM)	S E S S I O N 1 C The Authentic Speaker Location: Tressider Union Building (CYPRESS ROOM)
8:30-8:55	Below the Threshhold of Perception: Devoiced Obstruents in Pennsylvania Dutchified English Vicki Michael Anderson	Present Perfect for Preterite across Spanish Dialects Chad Howe and Scott Schwenter	Asian American Crossings: A Critical Examination of the Notion of Linguistic Crossing Elaine Wonhee Chun
8:55-9:20	Do You Hear What I Hear? Experimental Measurement of the Perceptual Salience of Acoustically Manipulated Vowel Variants by Southern Speakers in Memphis, TN. Valerie Fridland and Kathryn Bartlett	Spanish Progressive Morphosyntax in Stochastic OT Andrew Koontz-Garboden	Ethnic Diversity and the "Authentic Speaker": The Acquisition of Canadian English in Montreal Charles Boberg
9:20-9:45	Experimental Contributions to the Study of Phonological Variation: A Study of /R/ in Belgian French Didier Demolin and Hans Vandevelde		Now There is No "True Maya": Ideological Construction of "Authentic" Mayan Identities Jinsook Choi
9:45-10:10	Perceptions of /a/-Fronting across Two Michigan Dialects Bartek Plichta and Brad Rakerd		The Authentic Speaker Revisited: A Look at Ethnic Perception Data from White Hip Hoppers Cecilia Cutler
10:10-10:30	Break
	S E S S I O N 2 A Media Location: Tressider Union Building (OAK WEST ROOM)	S E S S I O N 2 B Syntactic and Morphological Variation II Location: Tressider Union Building (OAK EAST ROOM)	S E S S I O N 2 C Variation and Contact I Location: Tressider Union Building (CYPRESS ROOM)
10:30-10:55	Media Standards, the Media, and Language Change Miriam Meyerhoff and Nancy Niedzielski	A Distributed Morphology Account of 'Weren't' Leveling Jennifer Mittelstaedt and Jeffrey Parrott	Code-Switching in Taiwan: The Interaction between Situational Factors and the Negotiation of Participant Roles Hsi-Yao Su
10:55-11:20	Assessing the Effects of Language in the Media on Linguistic Variation Catherine Evans Davies	Constraints on the Distribution of English Coordinate NPs: Comprehension, Production, and Style Roger Levy	Determiner Variation With English-Origin Nouns in New Mexican Spanish: Non-Referentiality in Bare Nouns Rena Torres-Cacoullos and Jessica Aaron
11:20-11:45	How and Why Media Language Has Altered the Nature of Variation in Arabic Keith Walters	Explaining Parallel Development in Alternative Restructuring: The Case of Weren't Intensification Natalie Schilling-Estes and Walt Wolfram	Dialect Contact and Accommodation: Variation Patterns in Salvadoran Spanish in Houston José Esteban Hernández and Jessi Elana Aaron
11:45-12:10	The 20 Million Dollar Vowel: Anglo Pronunciation of a Spanish Last Name in Texas Aaron Shield	The Lake Has Been Frozed Over: Non-Standard Past Tense Forms in LAMSAS and LAGS Allison Burkette	Inalienable Rights: Sociocultural Constraints and Language Contact Miriam Meyerhoff
12:10-12:35	Urbanization of Uruguayan Portuguese: Television as a Linguistic Model for Dialect Acquisition in a Bilingual Border Town Ana Maria Carvalho	The Use of (Be) Like Quotatives in American and Non-American Newspapers John Victor Singler and Laurie Woods
12:35-1:45	Lunch
	P O S T E R S E S S I O N (Location: Tressider Union Building, LOUNGE)
1:45-3:15	What is the Best Normalization Method for Acoustic Vowel Measurements? Patti Adank and Roeland van Hout	Patterns of Linguistic Diffusion in the Mid-Atlantic Region Sharon Ash	What the Folk Have to Say about Dialect Boundaries Erica J. Benson
	Range of Dialect in the Formal Speech of African-American Elementary School Children Anne H. Charity	Active Knowledge of SE and Reading Ability in African-American Elementary School Students Anne H. Charity, Hollis Scarborough, and Darion Griffin	Sharable Resources for Sociolinguistic Research Christoper Cieri, William Labov, and Stephanie Strassel
	Effects of Talker Variability on Perceptual Learning Using a Dialect Categorization Task Cynthia G. Clopper and David B. Pisoni	Tracing the Path from Will to Gonna in African American Vernacular English Patricia Cukor-Avila	Modeling Medial t-d Deletion in Spontaneous Speech Robin Dautricourt, William Raymond, and Elizabeth Hume-O'Haire
	Dialect Contact in a Southern Basque Town Bill Haddican	Can Spelling Influence Perception When Sounds are Merging? Jen Hay and Margaret A. Maclagan	All Gone? Variable Case Marking in Children's And Mothers' Speech in Japanese Rika Ito
	The Discourse Functions of "As For": An Indicator of Discourse Subtopic Shifts T. Florian Jaeger	And...There was all kinda orchards...They was hundreds of acres of orchards down in these hills: They/There and Was/Were Variation in Small Town Kentuckiana Brian Jose	Variation in Estonian Personal Pronouns: Observations in a Language Contact Situation Piibi-Kai Kivik
	Group and Individual Patterns of Variation: Evidence from Second Language Acquisition Juliet Langman and Robert Bayley	The Behavior of Interdental Fricatives in Columbus Ohio AAVE Grant L. McGuire	Choosing between Variables: Monophthongization and Raising in Early Utah English Wendy Morkel and David Bowie
	The Vanguard of Linguistic Change in a Dialect Survey of the Golden Horseshoe. Jack Panster	Vernacular Features in Written Language: Variable Use of the Imperative Form in Brazilian Portuguese Maria Marta Pereira Scherre	An English "Like No Other"?: Language Contact and Change in Quebec Shana Poplack and James A. Walker
	Dialectology Meets Speech Engineering: Learning the Features and Relationships of U.S. English Varieties David M. Rojas	Reconstructing the History of Competing Vowel Shift Patterns Erik R. Thomas	The Acoustic Analysis of Diphthongs Hans vande Velde and Roeland van Hout
	S E S S I O N 3 A Panel on Change in Real Time Location: Tressider Union Building (OAK WEST ROOM)	S E S S I O N 3 B Style and Identity Location: Tressider Union Building (OAK EAST ROOM)	S E S S I O N 3 C Language Attitudes Location: Tressider Union Building (CYPRESS ROOM)
3:15-3:40	The Emergence of Quebec French: Constituting a Corpus of 19th Century Speech Shana Poplack and Anne St-Amand	The Sociolinguistic Wannabe: Unable to Learn or Reluctant to Engage? Emma Moore	Variation theory, mock language and social stereotype: an analysis of the South African radio program `Applesammy and Naidoo' Raj Mesthrie
3:40-4:05	The Conditioning of the French Conditional Redux: A Real-Time Analysis Carmen Leblanc	Crossing Over, Going Back, and Staying Put: Style, Ideology and AAVE Julie Sweetland	Language Labels and Language Use among Cajuns and Creoles in Louisiana Tom Klingler
4:05-4:30	The Old Nous and the New Nous: A Comparison of 19th and 20th Century Spoken Canadian French Hélène Blondeau	Social and Style Factors in the Choice Between Word Order Variants Aria Adli	Perceptions of Perfective Done: A Study of Language Attitudes Misty Krueger
4:30-4:55	Montreal [r] to [R] in Real and Apparent Time: A Trend/Panel Comparison Gillian Sankoff and Hélène Blondeau	Styling Ethnic Identity: A Case Study Allan Bell	The Dilemma of Stereotyping Sheng' and Its Speakers Peter Githinji
5:00-7:00	Dinner
	P A N E L D I S C U S S I O N Elephants in the Room: Debates We Should Be Having Location: Cubberley Building (Main Auditorium)
7:00-8:45	Critical Age Eve Clark Gillian Sankoff	The Authentic Speaker Mary Bucholtz Nikolas Coupland
8:45-10:30	Reception (Location: Cubberley Building, Lobby) (hosted by Blackwell Publishing)
S A T U R D A Y , O C T O B E R 1 2 th (registration:8:00am-5:00pm in Building 420, hallway outside Room 040)
	P L E N A R Y A D D R E S S (Location: Building 420, Room 040)
9:00-10:15	Seeds of Variation and Change [Abstract] Arnold Zwicky
10:15-10:30	Break
	S E S S I O N 4 A Problematizing the Paradigm Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380X)	S E S S I O N 4 B Ideology and Social Meaning Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380Y)	S E S S I O N 4 C Variation and Contact II Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380C)
10:30-10:55	Applying Chaos and Complexity Theory to Language Variation Analysis Neil Wick	Avoidance of a New Standard: Quotative Use among Long Island Teenagers Maryam Bakht-Rofheart	Variation and Contact Lone-English-Origin Nouns in Arabic: Codeswitches or Borrowings Eiman Mustafawi
10:55-11:20	¿Cómo se llega a l'escuela?: A Study of Usage Effects on Hiatus Resolution in New Mexican Spanish Matthew C. Alba	Falsetto and the Use of Phonation Type as a Stylistic Variable Robert J. Podesva	Maintaining or Leveling Dialect Distinctions: The Role of Variable Constraints Gregory Guy
11:20-11:45	Language Variation in the Mind Kirk Hazen	From the "Iron Rice Bowl" to the Market Economy: Changing Values of Mainland Standard Mandarin Qing Zhang	New Dialect Formation in the Rural South: Emerging Hispanic English Varieties in the Mid-atlantic Beckie Moriello and Walt Wolfram
11:45-12:10	The Process of Lexical Change: the Same Or Different? David Bowie	Ideology-Free Decentralization and Canadian Raising in Martha's Vineyard Renee Blake and Meredith Josey	The Social Meaning of Basque Spanish Null Object Constructions Myriam Eguia
12:10-12:35	Rethinking Methodologies: What Language Diaries can Offer to the Study of Language Shift Donna Starks and Jeong Kim	Performative Strategy: Self-Referential renjia, a Pronoun of Mock Femininity in Taiwan-Based Mandarin Chia-Ying Lee	Zeroing in on German Plurals Karin Nault
12:35-1:45	Lunch (informal group discussions by topic)
	S E S S I O N 5 A Syntactic Variation I Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380X)	S E S S I O N 5 B Variation and Change Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380Y)	S E S S I O N 5 C Phonological Variation Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380C)
1:45-2:05	A Quantitative Analysis of Untriggered Reflexives in Co-Ordinate NP's in American English Philipp S. Angermeyer and John Victor Singler	Caught in the Act: Dialect Change in St. John's English Alex D'Arcy	A Comparative Study of /aj/ Among African Americans in Memphis and Detroit Bridget L. Anderson and Valerie Fridland
2:05-2:30	BE Like USE? BE Goes USE? Isabelle Buchstaller	Looking up the Relatives in Northern Britain: The People THAT Talk Like the Rhyme THAT Tells about the House THAT Jack Built Sali Tagliamonte, Jennifer Smith, and Helen Lawrence	Fronting of /u/ and /U/ in Detroit AAE: Evidence from Real and Apparent Time Bridget Anderson, Jennifer Nguyen, and Lesley Milroy
2:30-2:55	Contextual Determination of Word Order Variation in Dutch Clause Final Verbal Clusters Gert De Sutter, Dirk Speelman, and Dirk Geeraerts	The Emergence of the Copula in Child Language: Variation, Constraints, and the Constant Rate Effect Sali Tagliamonte	The Sharing of Constraints in Minority Speech Communities Raymond Mougeon, Terry Nadasdi , Katherine Rehner, and Dorin Uritescu
2:55-3:20	Variable Subject-Verb inversion in Middle English and Stochastic OT Brady Z. Clark	Tracking the Diffusion of Socio-Phonetic Change: Glottal Replacement in Northeast England Manami Hirayama	Prosodic Patterns in Chicano English Carmen Fought and John Fought
3:20-3:40	Break
	S E S S I O N 6 A Linguistic Ability Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380X)	S E S S I O N 6 B Style and Genre Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380Y)	S E S S I O N 6 C Language in Institutions Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380C)
3:40-4:05		Change in E-Mail Style: A Multi-Dimensional Approach John C. Paolillo	Phraseology and the Alzheimer's Speaker: Functions of Formulaic Fragments Boyd Davis, Linda Moore, and Ruth Greene
4:05-4:30	L1 vs. L2 Vernacular Variation Naomi Nagy	Letter Perfect: Genre and the Present Perfect in Early African American English Gerard Van Herk	Exploring Properties of Adult/Child Interaction in Child Abuse Assessment Interviews Carol Morgan
4:30-4:55	On the Notion of 'Nativeness': Incomplete Acquisition and Linguistic Variation in a Bilingual City Andrew Lynch		Updating Contrastive Analysis: Extending Students' Linguistic Versatility through Literature and Song John Rickford and Angela Rickford
4:55-5:15	Break
	P A N E L D I S C U S S I O N Minority Languages and Education Location: Building 420 (ROOM 040)
5:15-6:45	Kenji Hakuta Noma Lemoine Claire Ramsey Jeff Siegel
7:00-1:00	Party* (hosted by Cambridge University Press) Location: CSLI (Center for Study of Language and Information) 7:00-9:00 Dinner 9:00-1:00 Music and Dancing * The Saturday party at NWAV will feature music by Dead Tongues, the house band of the Stanford Linguistics Department (well, sort of). Featured singers will include Aarthi Belani (NYU Law School) and linguists Anne Charity (U Penn), Meredith Josey (NYU), Geoff Nunberg (Stanford), Elaine Richardson (Penn State), John Rickford (Stanford), Ivan Sag (Stanford), and perhaps others... As Tom Wasow would say: `Be there, or be square!'....
S U N D A Y , O C T O B E R 1 3 th (registration:8:00am-1:00pm in Building 420, hallway outside Room 040)
	S E S S I O N 7 A Those Shifty Vowels Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380X)	S E S S I O N 7 B Syntactic Variation/Prosody and Social Meaning Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380Y)	S E S S I O N 7 C Level of Consciousness Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380C)
9:00-9:25	Geographic Evidence for the Binary Character of the English Vowel System William Labov	Perseverance of Subject Expression across Regional and Social Dialects of Spanish Richard Cameron and Nydia Flores
9:25-9:50	Coarticulatory Nasalization and the Northern Cities Vowel Shift: Is /æ/ Really Raising? Bartek Plichta	The Study of Variable Subject Personal Pronouns: Methodological and Analytical Issues Robert Bayley	Totally California? The Occurrence of /o/-Fronting in Arizona English Lauren Hall-Lew and Malcah Yaeger-Dror
9:50-10:15	(Great) Vowel Shifts, Present and Past: New Evidence for the Drag Chain Scenario Manfred Krug	Identifying Register and Speaker 'Stance' from Prosodic Strategies: A Comparison of Spanish and English Parallel Corpora Tania Granadillo and Malcah Yaeger-Dror	Dialect Stabilization and Speaker Awareness in an Indigenized Non-Native English Devyani Sharma
10:15-10:40	It's Not All Rain and Coffee: An Investigation into the Dialect of Portland, Oregon Jeff Conn	Identifying Register and Speaker 'Stance' from Prosodic Strategies: A Comparison of Japanese and English Parallel Corpora Shoji Takano and Malcah Yaeger-Dror	Patterns of L1 Attrition: Explaining Variation in Language Loss Steven Gross
10:40-10:55	Break
	S E S S I O N 8 A Variation and Change: Age Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380X)		S E S S I O N 8 C Negotiating the Lexicon Location: Building 380 (ROOM 380C)
10:55-11:20	The Individual and the Community in Real-Time Linguistic Change: Social Dimensions Anthony J. Naro, Maria Marta Pereira Scherre		It Was Indescribable: Negotiation of Terms of Reference for the 2001 Attacks on the World Trade Center Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain
11:20-11:45	Puerto Rican Intervocalic (d) As a Text On Gendering and Aging Richard Cameron		Keywords, Kids and Colonialism: A Critical Political Semantic Account of Variation in Uses of "Dependency" Bonnie Mcelhinny
11:45-12:10	Testing the Divergence Hypothesis: A Look at African American English in Detroit over the Last Thirty Years Rusty Barrett		On the Rise of Semantic Variation: A Case Study Andrew Wong
12:10-12:35	Constant Rate Hypothesis, Age-Grading, and Apparent Time Construct Kenjiro Matsuda		Social Factors and Covert Gender in English Ken Lacy