2005 ADS Annual Meeting: Program! and Chairs?

[AAllan at AOL.COM]

The program committee, chaired by ADS vice president Joan Hall and with 
members George
Goebel and Luanne von Schneidemesser, has completed the difficult task of 
choosing from many excellent proposals. Here is the program they have arranged.

One thing they haven't arranged is chairs for our sessions. If you'd like to 
chair one, please let me know (e-mail to AAllan at aol.com) right away - just 
tell me what session you're interested in.

Delectable details on the luncheon and other matters will be announced soon. 
Meanwhile, here's the menu of food for thought. - Allan Metcalf, ADS Executive 
Secretary

American Dialect Society Annual Meeting

Thursday, January 6, 2005

Session 1: Usage, Labeling, and Lexicons, 10:00-11:30 a.m. 
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.
4. “Evidence on the History of Prosodic Rhythm in African American English.” 
Erik R. Thomas and Phillip M. Carter, North Carolina State Univ.
5. “ ‘God Don’t Want No Weak Women’: Testifyin Performance and Ideology in 
a Black Church.” Andrea Kortenhoven, Stanford Univ.
6. “Advantages, and Disadvantages, of Using Large Dialect 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.
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

Executive Council Meeting, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Open meeting; all members welcome. 
Presiding: ADS President Michael Montgomery, U. of South Carolina. 

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.
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.” Steven 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.
16–18 “The Atlanta Survey Project.” William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Univ. of 
Georgia. 
Betsy Barry
Iyabo Osiapem
Mi-Ran Kim and Nicole Kong

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

Bring-Your-Own-Book Exhibit and Reception, 6:30–7:30 p.m.
 
Saturday, January 8

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

Session 7: Regional Phonology, 9:45–11:45 a.m.
19. “A First Approach to Regional Phonetic Variation in Canadian English.” 
Charles Boberg, McGill Univ.
20. “Acoustic Characteristics of Utah’s card/cord Merger.” David Bowie, 
Univ. of Central Florida.
21. “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.
22. “You So Don’t Talk Like Me: Exploring Southern California Sound Changes 
Across Generations.” Allyn Partin Hernandez, Northridge, Calif.

Annual Luncheon, 12:15–1:45 p.m. 

Session 8: Special Session on Teaching, 2:00–4:00 p.m.

“Promoting Language Awareness in Schools via Do You Speak American?” Jeffrey 
Reaser, Duke Univ.; Carolyn Temple Adger, Center for Applied Linguistics; 
Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State Univ.