ADS Annual Meeting Program 2007

[Allan A Metcalf]

I'm pleased to announce the program of our annual meeting. More details about luncheon, Words of the Year, Executive Council, etc., will be coming soon!

(Personal note: I'm changing my ADS e-mail address to americandialect at mac.edu, even though it doesn't show on this message. - Allan Metcalf, ADS executive secretary)
 
American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2007
Anaheim, California
 
At the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
 
For information on registration, go to the website of the Linguistics Society of America at www.lsadc.org.
 
 
Thursday, January 4:
 
Executive Council meeting, 1-3 p.m.
 
Annual business meeting, 3-3:30 p.m.
 
 
Session 1: 4-5 p.m.
 
1. Sociolects in Mi Vida Loca: Indexing Identity in Mexican American Youths. MaryEllen Garcia, U. of Texas, San Antonio.
 
2. Understanding Lansing: Mexican American listeners in Michigan. Rebecca Roeder, U of Toronto.
 
 
New Words nominations, 5:15-6:45 p.m.
 
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Friday, January 5:
 
Session 2: 9:00-10:30AM. Sponsored by the ADS Committee on Teaching.
 
3. Experiences with Faculty-Undergraduate Collaborative Research in Dialectology. Erica J. Benson, U. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
 
4. Using Classroom Technology to Teach Linguistic Diversity. Susan Tamasi and Erica Dotson, Emory U.
 
5. Listener Assessments of Dialect Use and Academic Success: An Online Survey. Anne H. Charity, Hannah Askin, and Mackenzie Fama, College of William and Mary.
 
 
Session 3: 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
 
6. An Optimality Theoretic Account of Stress Patterns in African American English: BIN, been, dn, and DO. Nikki Seifert, U. of Texas.
 
7. The Impact Of Dialect On The Rate And Order of Phonological Development. Shelley L. Velleman, U. of Massachusetts – Amherst; Barbara Z. Pearson, U. of Massachusetts – Amherst; Timothy J. Bryant, U. of New Hampshire; Tiffany Charko, Agawam Public Schools.
 
8.Linguistic stability and variation across the lifespan. Mariana Chao, Stephanie Colombo, and David Bowie, U. of Central Florida.
 
 
Session 4: 2-3:30 p.m.
 
9. Principles of Nonstandard Orthography in Folk Dictionaries. Sarah Hilliard, Duke U.
 
10. High School Students’ Folk Perceptions of Dialects. Jeffrey Reaser, North Carolina State U.
 
11. “Doctor, This Man’s Tongue Must Be Broken”: Dialect and Health Literacy. Susan Tamasi, Emory U.
 
 
Session 5: 3:45-5:15 p.m.
 
12. Past Temporal Reference in Black Bermudian English: Perfective Be/Perfective Done. Iyabo F. Osiapem, Washington U.
 
13. AAVE in Pittsburgh: Ethnicity, Local Identity and Local Speech. Shelome Gooden and Maeve Eberhardt, U. of Pittsburgh.
 
14. Ethnic and national self-reference among 19th-century African Americans. Gerard Van Herk, Memorial U. of Newfoundland, and Adrienne Jones, U. of Ottawa.
 
Words of the Year vote, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
 
BYOB Reception, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
 
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Saturday, January 6:
 
Session 6: 8:30-10 a.m.
 
15. The Effects of Migration on Appalachian Language Variation Patterns. Kirk Hazen and Sarah Hamilton, West Virginia U.
 
16. Vowel Variation in Southern Illinois. Douglas S. Bigham, U. of Texas – Austin.
 
17. Regional Phonetic Differentiation in Canadian English. Charles Boberg, McGill U.
 
 
Session 7: 10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
 
18. Multiple Features, Multiple Identities: A Sociophonetic Profile of Condoleezza Rice. Robert Podesva, Georgetown U; Jason Brenier, U. of Colorado, Boulder; Lauren Hall-Lew, Stacy Lewis, Patrick Callier, and Rebecca Starr, Stanford U..
 
19. The Development of Style Shifting in African American Adolescents. Jennifer Renn, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
 
20. The Importance of Distinguishing Dialect from Register Variation in Teaching Standard English. David W. Brown, U. of Michigan.
 
 
Luncheon 12:15-1:45 p.m. Speaker: ADS President Joan Hall, Dictionary of American Regional English. (Make luncheon reservations in advance with Executive Secretary Allan Metcalf, americandialect at mac.edu.)
 
 
Session 8: 2-3:30 p.m.
 
21. La pâtisserie de Bayeux: (mis)adventures in transcribing a mega-corpus of Franco-American French. Cynthia Fox, State U. of New York, Albany.
 
22. Orthodox Jewish American English. Sarah Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College.
 
23. Hmong in Transition: Acoustic analysis of Hmong American English in the Twin Cities. Rika Ito, St. Olaf College.
 
 
Session 9: 4-5:30 p.m.
 
24. The Disappearing Past and the Futures of Pennsylvania German Dialectology. Steve Hartman Keiser, Marquette U.
 
25. Contrasting Patterns of Language Shift in Two Franco-American Communities. Louis E. Stelling, State U. of New York, Albany.
 
26. The 18th-Century Roots of Southern American Discourse Patterns. Susan Garzon, Oklahoma State U.
 
 
 
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