New Ways of Analyzing Language Variation and Change: Asia-Pacific Branch February 23-26, 2011

Abstracts

Phinnarat Akharawatthanakun (Payap University). Patterns of lexical variation in four Southwestern Tai dialects.
Russell Arent (RIT Dubai/Rochester Institute of Technology). How observational method, participant typology, urban sprawl and mobility impact isogloss opacity in sociolinguistic Inquiry.
Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics). Accentuation pattern in a highly isolated sociolinguistic setting: a case of Sakhalin Japanese in Russia.
Dominika Baran (Duke University). Sociolinguistic variation in Taiwan Mandarin: deretroflection and labial glide deletion among Taipei County high school students.
Pratibha Bhattacharya (University of Delhi). Where do you shop --- in mɔls or mɔlz?
Vineeta Chand (University of California, Davis). Merged? The sociolinguistic reality of the purported (v/w) merger in Indian English.
Hui-Huan Chang & Victoria Rau (National Chung Cheng University). Word order variation in Yami.
Claire Cowie & Anna Pande (University of Edinburgh). Do speakers of Indian English accommodate to Americans on the telephone in professional interactions? The India Telephone Maptask.
Kakoli Dey (University of Delhi). Spirantization of labials in Silchar Bengali.
Robert Englebretson (Rice University). 'Where do Chinese people store their money?': The social construction of an Indonesian ethnic stereotype through a small story.
Gregory Guy (New York University). Constraints and communities in Early New Zealand English.
Kevin Heffernan (Kwansei Gakuin University). Phonemic-level variability in English loans in Japanese: Code-switching within the morpheme.
Chungmin Hsu (National Chiao Tung University). Constructionalization and grammaticalization: A corpus-based variationist study of syntactic variation of yige in Mandarin.
Hyeon-Seok Kang (Dankook University). Chungnam-Province residents' perceptual dialect boundaries, dialect images, and recognition of Korean dialects.
Peter Keegan (University of Auckland), Jeanette King (University of Canterbury), Catherine Watson (University of Auckland), Margaret Maclagan (University of Canterbury) & Ray Harlow (Waikato University). The role of indigenous women in sound change: the Maori language in New Zealand.
Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi (Deccan College). Forty years of language change in Kupwad.
Claudia Lange (Technical University Dresden). Word order and discourse organization in spoken Indian English.
Nazrin B Laskar (Aligarh Muslim University). Variation in tense and aspect marking in Bishnupriya: Impact of bilingualism.
Sarah Lee (Rice University). When to ask is to cause: the use of the ask periphrastic construction as an expression of indirect causation in Singapore English.
Kazuko Matsumoto (University of Tokyo). Sentence tag desho as discourse variation: Evidence from the terminal Japanese Diaspora community in the Pacific.
Olga Maxwell (University of Melbourne). Intonational realisation of focus in Indian English spoken by L1 Bengali and L1 Kannada speakers of English.
Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Auckland). Variation as vitality: Using variation in research on an endangered language.
Carmel O'Shannessy (University of Michigan). Innovative structures form in a new mixed language.
Resmi Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University). Sociolinguistic perspective of the pattern of lexical borrowing: Case of Konkanis and Kudumbis of Kerala.
Reza Ghafar Samar, Hadi Azimi & Sepideh Abdolkarimi (Tarbiat Modares University). Observing language change: A regional perspective.
Shobha Satyanath (University of Delhi). Spatiality of alveolars and palatals across Eastern India.
Edgar W. Schneider (University of Regensburg). American impact on Asian and Pacific Englishes: a corpus-based investigation.
Richa Sharma (University of Delhi). Enuf is not Inuf for Delhiites: Variation in vowels in Delhi English.
Teresa Yi-Chun Shen (Providence University) & Victoria Rau (National Chung Cheng University). A variation analysis of grammaticalization of the Chinese discourse marker "ranhou".
James N. Stanford (Dartmouth College) & Yanhong Pan (University of Hong Kong). Dialect acquisition and exogamy in a Zhuang minority village in southern China.
Nathan Statezni & Ahkhi (SIL International). So near and yet so far: Dialect variation and contact among the Tangshang Naga in Myanmar.
Rebecca Starr (Stanford University) & Huihsin Tseng (Yahoo! Labs). "It's very manly ei!": Variation in affective sentence-final particles in Taiwanese Mandarin television dramas.
Akiko Takemura (Kobe University). Parental influence in dialect acquisition: the case of Kagoshima dialect of Japanese.
Siew Imm Tan (Nanyang Technological University ). Structural idiosyncrasies in Malaysian English multi-word verbs.
Catherine Yang (La Trobe University and SIL International). Lalo regional varieties: Phylogeny, dialectometry, and intelligibility.