31.3034, FYI: Free Webinar: Queer and Trans Sociophonetics

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Subject: 31.3034, FYI: Free Webinar: Queer and Trans Sociophonetics

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 06:03:35
From: Tyler Kibbey [tyler.e.kibbey at gmail.com]
Subject: Free Webinar: Queer and Trans Sociophonetics

 
Queer and Trans Sociophonetics Webinar

Saturday, October 24, 2020, 3:00-5:00pm Eastern

Presented by: 

Linguistic Society of America Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics
[COZIL]

Culture, Language, and Social Practice [CLASP] Program at University of
Colorado

FREE Registration: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95006248085 

The sound of the queer voice has captured the intrigue of the popular and
sociolinguistic imagination, spurring a wave of research investigating what
makes someone “sound gay”. While much research has sought to uncover the
phonetic markers of the (cisgender, White, male) “gay sounding” voice, only
recently has a wave of research begun to investigate the myriad ways that
queer speakers of other gender, sexual, and racial identities articulate their
identities. This panel continues this trajectory, aiming to: (1) explore how
understudied and marginalized queer identities— including transgender,
non-binary, and non-White identities— are articulated using phonetic,
variationist methods; (2) discuss the implications that the phonetic patterns
of these speakers have on theories of sociolinguistic variation that are based
on White, cisgender, heterosexual speakers and often taken for granted as if
they apply universally; (3) to explore the consequences of the ways that
dominant theories and methodologies in sociolinguistics don’t account for the
full range of queer experiences. 

Agenda:

Introduction to Queer and Trans Sociophonetics
Jeremy Calder, University of Colorado Boulder

Tran/s/gender: assessing the effects of the social construction of gender on
speech. A focus on transgender /s/ realisations
James Parnell-Mooney, University of Glasgow

Variable vocal tract length as sociolinguistic feature
Lily Clifford, Stanford University

Pajara/s/ in wigs: bilingualism, latinidad, and gendered sociophonetics in
Miami’s Queer Barrio
Christopher Mendoza, Florida International University

Ér-Change: shifting from “smooth operator” to “sexual modern” in Beijing Queer
Media 
Andrew Ting, University of Colorado Boulder

Normativity in normalization: Methodological challenges in the (automated)
analysis of vowels among non-binary speakers
deandre miles-hercules and Lal Zimman, University of California Santa Barbara

 
Audience Q&A

For abstracts and more information, see attached PDFs.
Questions? Contact Jeremy Calder at jeremy.calder at colorado.edu
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics





 



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