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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
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7:30am - 8:30am |
Breakfast: International Guest House (UIGH) |
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9:00am - 6:00pm |
WORKSHOPS |
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9:00am - 10:00am |
WORKSHOP 1
"Socio-tonetics": Methods and issues in analyzing tone as an acoustic sociophonetic variable
James Stanford (Dartmouth College) |
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10:00am - 11:30am |
WORKSHOP 2
Research designs for using VARBRUL to study interlanguage variation, grammaticalization, and word order variation
Victoria Rau (Chung Cheng University) |
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11:30am - 11:50am |
TEA |
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11:50pm - 1:00pm |
WORKSHOP 3
Issues in quantitative analysis
Gregory Guy (University of New York) |
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LUNCH (IGH) |
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2:00pm - 4:00pm |
WORKSHOP 4
Contact dialectology in Japanese contexts
Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) |
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4:00pm - 6:00pm |
WORKSHOP 5
The use of language variation in the study of language contact situations
Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Auckland) |
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6:00pm - onwards |
INAUGURAL RECEPTION
REFRESHMENTS REGISTRATION |
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7:00pm - 8:00pm |
Cultural Evening |
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8:00pm |
Dinner (UIGH) |
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Thursday, February 24, 2011 |
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7:30am - 8:30am |
Breakfast (UIGH) |
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9:00am |
INAUGURATION BY VICE CHANCELLOR, DELHI UNIVERSITY |
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9:15 am |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Discovering the unexpected
William Labov University of Pennsylvania |
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10:30am - 11:00am |
TEA |
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SESSION I |
VARIATION IN LOCAL ETHNIC/DIASPORA COMMUNITIES AND CHANGE
Chair: |
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11:00 am |
The role of indigenous women in sound change: the Maori language in New Zealand
Peter Keegan, Jeanette King, Catherine Watson, Margaret Maclagan & Ray Harlow |
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11:30am |
Variation as vitality: Using variation in research on an endangered language
Miriam Meyerhoff |
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12:00 pm |
Accentuation pattern in a highly isolated sociolinguistic setting: A case of Sakhalin Japanese in Russia
Yoshiyuki Asahi |
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12:30pm |
Constraints and communities in Early New Zealand English
Gregory Guy |
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1:00 - 2:00pm |
LUNCH (UIGH) |
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SESSION II |
GRAMMATICALIZATION/ SYNTACTIC VARIATION
Chair: |
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2:10 pm |
A variation analysis of grammaticalization of the Chinese discourse marker "ranhou"
Teresa Yi-Chun Shen & Victoria Rau |
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2:40pm |
Syntactic variation and constructionalization: the case of modifier-yige-noun in Taiwan Mandarin
Chungmin Hsu |
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3:10pm |
Word Order Variation in Yami
Hui-Huan Chang & Victoria Rau |
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3:40pm |
When to ask is to cause: the ask periphrastic as an expression of indirect causation in Singapore English
Sarah Lee |
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4:10pm - 4:25pm |
TEA |
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SESSION III |
ACQUISITION OF A LOCAL DIALECT
Chair: |
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4:25pm |
Parental influence in dialect acquisition: the case of Kagoshima dialect of Japanese
Akiko Takemura |
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4:55pm |
Dialect acquisition and exogamy in a Zhuang minority village in southern China
James N. Stanford & Yanhong Pan |
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5:25pm |
REFRESHMENTS |
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6:00pm - 8:00pm |
PANEL DISCUSSION STUDY OF SPEECH COMMUNITIES
Asia-Pacific speech communities: Challenges
Chair: William Labov
(6: 00 - 7: 00) Invited speaker: Gillian Sankoff
Research in multilingual speech communities: a comparative perspective
(7:00 - 7:15) Discussant: Miriam Meyerhoff
(7:15 - 7:25) Discussant: Shobha Satyanath
(7:25 - 7:50) Open house Remarks of the Chair |
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8:00pm |
Dinner (UIGH) |
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Friday, February 25, 2011 |
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7: 30 am - 8: 30 am |
BREAKFAST (UIGH) |
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SESSION I |
VARIATION AND EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS IN DISCOURSE
Chair: |
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9:00am |
Where do Chinese people store their money? The Social Construction of an Indonesian Ethnic Stereotype through a Small Story
Robert Englebretson |
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9:30am |
"It's very manly ei!": Variation in affective sentence-final particles in Taiwanese Mandarin Dramas
Rebecca Starr & Huihsin Tseng |
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10:00am |
Sociolinguistic variation in Taiwan Mandarin: deretroflection and labial glide deletion among Taipei County high school students
Dominika Baran |
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10:30am |
Spirantization of labials in Silchar Bengali
Kakoli Dey |
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11:00am - 11:15am |
TEA |
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SESSION II |
VARIATION ACROSS DIALECTS: ISSUES
Chair: |
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11:15am |
Chungnam-Province Residents' Perceptual Dialect Boundaries, Dialect Images, and Recognition of Korean Dialects
Hyeon-Seok Kang |
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11:45am |
Spatiality of alveolars and palatals across Eastern India
Shobha Satyanath |
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12: 15 pm |
How observational method, participant typology, urban sprawl and mobility impact isogloss opacity in sociolinguistic inquiry
Russell Arent |
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12:50pm - 1:50pm |
LUNCH (UIGH) Business Meeting |
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SESSION III |
ASIA-PACIFIC ENGLISHES: EXTERNAL INFLUENCES AND LOCAL INNOVATIONS
Chair: |
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2:00pm |
Do speakers of Indian English accommodate to Americans on the telephone in professional interactions? The India Telephone Maptask
Claire Cowie & Anna Pande |
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2:30pm |
American impact on Asian and Pacific Englishes: A corpus-based investigation
Edgar W. Schneider |
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3:00pm |
Structural idiosyncrasies in Malayasian English multi-word verbs
Siew Imm Tan |
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3:30pm |
Where do you shop-Malls or Mallz?
Pratibha Bhattacharya |
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4 :00pm - 4:15pm |
TEA |
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SESSION IV |
PHONOLOGICAL VARIATION IN INDIAN/DELHI ENGLISH |
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4:15pm |
Intonational realisation of focus in Indian English spoken by L1 Bengali and L1 Kannada speakers of English
Olga Maxwell |
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4:45pm |
Merged? The sociolinguistic reality of the purported (v/w) merger in Indian English
Vineeta Chand |
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5:15pm |
Enuf is not Inuf for Delhiites: Variation in vowels in Delhi English
Richa Sharma |
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5:45pm - 6:30pm |
REFRESHMENTS
(Bus leaves for India International Centre from UIGH at 6: 30 pm) |
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7:30pm Onwards |
SPECIAL CONFERENCE DINNER
Venue: India International Centre (Max Muller Marg) |
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Saturday, February 26, 2011 |
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7:30am - 8:30am |
BREAKFAST (UIGH) |
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SESSION I A |
DIALECT VARIATION |
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9:00am |
Patterns of lexical variation in four Southwestern Tai Dialects
Phinnarat Akharawatthanakun |
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9:30am |
So Near and Yet So Far: Dialect Variation and Contact among the Tangshang Naga in Myanmar
Nathan Statezni & Ahkhi |
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10:00am |
Lalo regional varieties: Phylogeny, dialectometry, and intelligibility
Cathryn Yang |
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SESSION I B |
LANGUAGE CONTACT, VARIATION AND CHANGE
Chair: |
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9:00am |
Phonemic-level variability in English loans in Japanese: Code-switching within the morpheme
Kevin Heffernan |
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9:30am |
Word order and discourse organization in spoken Indian English
Claudia Lange |
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10:00am |
Sociolinguistic Perspective of the pattern of lexical borrowing: Case of Konkanis and Kudumbis of KeralaResmi Prakash |
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10:30am - 10:45am |
TEA |
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SESSION I B |
LANGUAGE CONTACT, VARIATION AND CHANGE
Chair: |
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10:45am |
Observing language change: A regional perspective
Reza Ghafar Samar, Hadi Azimi & Sepideh Abdolkarimi |
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11:15am |
Variation in Tense and Aspect Marking in Bishnupriya: Impact of Bilingualism
Nazrin B Laskar |
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11:45am |
Forty years of language change in Kupwad
Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi |
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12:15pm |
Innovative structures form in a new mixed language
Carmel O'Shannessy |
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1:00pm |
LUNCH (UIGH) |
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2:00pm - 8:00pm |
DELHI EXCURSION |
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8:00pm - |
DINNER (UIGH) |