Program

Friday

Breakfast and Registration, 9:00am-9:30am

Session 1: Structure (9:30am - 11:00am)

9:30-10:00
Complementizer as if and as though in Canadian English: An enduring register effect?
Marisa Brook (University of Victoria)

10:00-10:30
Variation in the usage of the imperfective in the Greek of Greek-Canadians.
Ralli (U Patras), S. Tsolakidis (U Patras), P. Pappas (SFU)

10:30-11:00
Clitics, neofalante grammar and Galician identity
Ildara Enríquez García (University of Victoria)

Break 11:00am - 11:15am

Session 2: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Cascadia (11:15am - 12:15pm)

11:15-11:45
Change in Singular They
Kirby Conrod (University of Washington)

11:45-12:15
A look at /s/-fronting in a diverse sample of speakers for sex/gender/sexuality
M Stoddard, Samantha Peterson, and Kara Becker (Reed College)

Lunch break 12:15pm-1:30pm

Session 3: Ethnicity (1:30pm-3:00pm)

1:30-2:00
Beyond macro-level ethnicity: Multiple social factors affect perception of Latina women's speech
Omar Ortiz (University of Oregon)

2:00-2:30
Using NVivo to explore ethnic orientation of second generation speakers in Vancouver
Irina Presnyakova (Simon Fraser University)

2:30-3:00
Final fricative deletion in Memphis AAL
Charlie Farrington (University of Oregon)

Break 3:00pm-3:30pm

Session 4: Attitudes and Perceptions (3:30pm - 5:00pm)

3:30-4:00
Dynamic acoustic correlates of perceived prosodic prominence in African American Language and European American English
Jason McLarty (University of Oregon)

4:00-4:30
Russian Characters in Films and Their Impact on Native Russian Speakers
Caroline Wright (Reed College)

4:30-5:00
The Social Meaning of BAG-Raising in Three West Coast Cities
Kara Becker (Reed College), Julia Swan (San Jose State University), and Mica Semrau (Reed College)

5:30pm - 7:30pm Socializing, Location TBD!

Saturday

9:30am-10:15am Breakfast

Mini-Session 5: Open Discussion on Terminology in Cascadia (9:30am-10:15am)

Session 6: Cascadia Dialectology (10:15am to 12:15pm)

10:15-10:45
Insufficient Data and the Mystery of the Linguistic Atlas of the Pacific Northwest
Alicia Beckford Wassink and Nicole Chartier (University of Washington)

10:45-11:15
The Voices of UBC: A Phonetic Analysis of the Englishes at The University of British Columbia
Kate Curtis and Molly Babel (The University of British Columbia)

11:15-11:45
Toward a Social Meaning of BAG-Raising: Sociohistorical factors and ideological stance among Seattle and Vancouver talkers
Julia Swan (San Jose State University)

11:45-12:15
Bull or bowl? A production study of prelateral back vowel mergers in Pacific Northwest English
Robert Squizzero (University of Washington)