Program for ADS Annual Meeting

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Here's our full program complete with hotel information. In case there is a 
problem with the typography, you'll soon find it posted on the ADS website. 
Full information on the luncheon will be announced next week. See you in Oakland! 
- Allan Metcalf, Executive Secretary

11.20.04
American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2005
Oakland, California

At the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

All sessions will be held at the
Marriott Oakland City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607
510-451-4000

The hotel features an exercise room, heated outdoor pool and a full service 
business center. It’s across the street from Oakland’s Chinatown in one 
direction and the Old Oakland Historic District in the other.

Rooms at the Marriott are available at the special rate of $95 per night, 
single or double. Call 1-800-991-7249 between 6 a,m. and 11 p.m. Pacific Standard 
Time and ask for the “LSA 2005 Annual Meeting” rate. Reservations are 
subject to availability if received after December15.


Thursday, January 6, 2005
All sessions in Rooms 210-211, Marriott Oakland City Center

Session 1: Usage, Labeling, and Lexicons, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Chair: Edward 
Finegan, Univ. of Southern California.
1. “Toni Morrison’s Genius Puts Her in the Grammar/Usage Spotlight.” Arnold 
Zwicky, Stanford Univ.
2. “Gendered Aspects of Lexicographic Labeling.” Katherine Martin, Oxford 
English Dictionary.
3. “Representations of Southern Speech in Folk Dictionaries.” Sarah Hilliard
, Duke Univ.

Session 2: Talkin’ and Testifyin’; Using Large Corpora, 1:00–2:30 p.m. 
Chair: Jesse Sheidlower, Oxford Univ. Press.
4. “Evidence on the History of Prosodic Rhythm in African American English.” 
Erik R. Thomas and Phillip M. Carter, North Carolina State Univ.
5. “Testifyin Performance and Ideology in a Black Church.” Andrea 
Kortenhoven, Stanford Univ.
6. “Dialect Coding for Large Corpora.” Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Univ. of Arizona; 
J.P. Campbell, W.M. Campbell, P. A. Torres-Carrasquillo, and D. A. Reynolds, 
all of MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Session 3: Southern Dialects—Black and White, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Chair: Beverly 
Flanigan, Ohio University.
7. “Dialect and the Spread of Country Music: the Case of ‘Alabama.’ ” 
Catherine Evans Davies, Univ. of Alabama.
8. “ ‘Talking White’ at the Apollo: African-American Narrative Comedians 
Portraying the Middle-class Establishment.” Jacquelyn Rahman, Miami Univ. of 
Ohio.
9. “The Shifting Significance of Postvocalic R-Lessness in Southern 
African-American English.” Kristy D’Andrea, North Carolina State Univ.
10. “On the Shifting Social Significance of Receding Dialect Variables: The 
Case of Static Locative to.” Jeannine Carpenter, North Carolina State Univ. and 
Duke Univ., and Janelle Vadnais, North Carolina State Univ.

Session 4: Special Presentation, 5:15–6:15 p.m.
11. Voices of North Carolina. Video that will be aired on PBS, featuring 
Outer Banks speech, Appalachian speech, metropolitan speech (Charlotte), Lumbee 
English, African American English in terms of dialects, as well as the state of 
the Cherokee language and Spanish. Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State Univ.

Friday, January 7

Council meeting in Room 212, Marriott Oakland City Center
Executive Council Meeting, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Open meeting; all members welcome. 
Presiding: ADS President Michael Montgomery, U. of South Carolina. 

Sessions in Rooms 210-211, Marriott Oakland City Center

Words of the Year Nominations, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 noon. Open meeting of the New 
Words committee; ADS members and friends welcome. Chair, Wayne Glowka, 
Georgia College and State University. This meeting reviews nominations for Words of 
the Year 2004. Final candidates will be identified in preparation for the vote 
at 5:30 p.m.

Session 5: Language Contact, 1:30–3:30 p.m. Chair: Kathryn Remlinger, Grand 
Valley State Univ.
12. “Another Look at the Copula in Caribbean Creoles.” James A. Walker, York 
Univ., Toronto, and Miriam Meyerhoff, Univ. of Edinburgh.
13. “When Speech Islands Collide.” Steve Hartman Keiser, Marquette Univ.
14. “What Happened to Texas German?” Hans C. Boas, Univ. of Texas, Austin.
15. “Spanish Dialect Contact in South Texas: Variable Subject Personal 
Pronoun Use by Puerto Ricans in San Antonio.” Robert Bayley, Carlos Martin 
Vélez-Salas, Belinda Schouten, and Norma Cárdenas, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio.

Session 6: Special Session, 3:45–5:15 p.m.: The Atlanta Survey Project. 
Chair: William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Univ. of Georgia. 
16. “Introduction to the Atlanta Survey Project.” Sonja Lanehart and William 
A. Krtetzschmar, Jr., Univ. of Georgia.
17. “The Atlanta Survey Project Interview.” Betsy Barry, Univ. of Georgia.
18. “Fixed-Format Elicitation in the Atlanta Survey Project.” Iyabo Osiapem, 
Univ. of Georgia, 
19. “Vowel Formant Characteristics from the Atlanta Survey Project.” Mi-Ran 
Kim and Nicole Kong, Univ. of Georgia.
20. “Publication of Full Interviews from the Atlanta Survey Project.” 
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Univ. of Georgia.

Words of the Year Vote, 5:30–6:30 p.m.

Reception in Toppers Rooftop Ballroom, Marriott Oakland City Center
Bring-Your-Own-Book Exhibit and Reception, 6:30–7:30 p.m.
 
Saturday, January 8
Sessions in Rooms 210-211, Marriott Oakland City Center

Annual Business Meeting, 8:30–9:30 a.m.

Session 7: Regional Phonology, 9:45–11:45 a.m. Chair: Connie Eble, Univ. of 
North Carolina.
21. “A First Approach to Regional Phonetic Variation in Canadian English.” 
Charles Boberg, McGill Univ.
22. “Acoustic Characteristics of Utah’s card/cord Merger.” David Bowie, 
Univ. of Central Florida.
23. “Upper Midwest Obstruent Variation: There’s More of It Than You Might 
Think.” Thomas Purnell, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; Joseph Salmons, Univ. of 
Wisconsin, Madison; Dilara Tepeli, Univ. Bonn; Jennifer Mercer, Univ. of 
Wisconsin.
24. “You So Don’t Talk Like Me: Exploring Southern California Sound Changes 
Across Generations.” Allyn Partin Hernandez, Northridge, Calif.

Luncheon in Toppers Rooftop Ballroom, Marriott Oakland City Center
Annual Luncheon, 12:15–1:45 p.m. Speaker: ADS president Michael Montgomery, 
Univ. of South Carolina. “The Voices of My Ancestors.” Information on menu, 
cost, and reservations will be announced soon.

Session in Rooms 210-211, Marriott Oakland City Center
Session 8: Promoting Awareness of Language Diversity, 2:00–4:00 p.m. Chair: 
Anne Curzan, Univ. of Michigan.
A panel co-sponsored by the American Dialect Society Committee on Teaching 
and by the Linguistic Society of America.
25. “Promoting Language Awareness in Schools via Do You Speak American?” 
Jeffrey Reaser, Center for Applied Linguistics, Duke Univ., and North Carolina 
State Univ.; Carolyn Temple Adger, Center for Applied Linguistics; Walt Wolfram, 
North Carolina State Univ.
26. “Teaching About Language Diversity in Non-Diverse Settings.” Michael 
Adams, North Carolina State Univ.