[Linganth] Queer and Trans Sociophonetics Webinar (24 Oct)

[Velda Khoo]

Dear all,

See below for more information on the Queer and Trans Sociophonetics
webinar happening next month, co-presented by COZIL
<https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/committee-lgbtq-z-issues-linguistics-cozil>
and the CLASP Program <https://www.colorado.edu/program/clasp/> at CU
Boulder. This event is open to everyone, and registration is free via the
link below. Please circulate widely, and feel free to share the attached
flyers and abstracts with people who might be interested. For more
information, please contact Jeremy Calder at jeremy.calder at colorado.edu.

Take care, and best wishes,
velda

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*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.


--
*Velda Khoo (she/her)*
"Talking Politics" Organizing Committee Member
PhD student and Graduate Instructor
Department of Linguistics | Program for Writing and Rhetoric
University of Colorado Boulder
velda.khoo at colorado.edu | veldakhoo.com <https://www.veldakhoo.com/>
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