#methods18
Today's plenary at #methods18 is from @rlslinguistics.bsky.social

Pursuing Sociolinguistic Diversity in Enregisterment-Rich Settings
July 1, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Lecture theatre of linguists learning about commodity registers on social media. You say "goblincore" and coconut girl", Starr says "enregisterment-rich setting"

(There's some good incidental dark academia happening in the crowd!) #methods18
July 1, 2024 at 11:45 PM
This is a highly competitive market, and streamers use everything at their disposal to get attention, including voice. @rlslinguistics.bsky.social sharing work done with students on three voice phenomena: clip voice, fizzy voice, and ASMR. #methods18
July 2, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Time for the second conference of this Australia trip, #methods18!
June 30, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Next up, Raymond Kelly, Jean Harkins and Nicholas Watson on "Decolonising dialectology? Viewing language diversity from the inside." #methods18
July 1, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Thanks to everyone for coming to my plenary at #methods18!
July 2, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Now bring introduced to live streaming and vlogging in China, where there are around 15 million live streamers. There's production companies and this is a serious industry in China. #methods18
July 1, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Our final talk at #methods18 is a plenary from Jane Stuart-Smith on researching rhoticity in Scottish English.
July 4, 2024 at 6:56 AM
All cohorts show a shift towards monophthongal FACE over time. #methods18
July 2, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Next, Felicity Meakins and colleagues on modeling social salience across multiple variables. #methods18
July 1, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Interviewees report that the Lebanese accent isn't necessarily exclusive to Lebanese Australians. #methods18
July 1, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Next up, Lucia Fraiese and colleagues on (ING) variation in youth Aboriginal English. #methods18
July 2, 2024 at 4:02 AM
How to disentangle momentary stylistic variation from genuine lifespan change in a panel study? #methods18
July 2, 2024 at 6:32 AM
The 30s group also shows the most stylistic variation. Authors note that this is the age group associated with full engagement in the workforce. U-shaped pattern often observed for stable variables may also apply to changes in progress. #methods18
July 2, 2024 at 6:52 AM
Next up, Elena Sheard and many colleagues are presenting on covariantion in NZ English vowels. #methods18
July 4, 2024 at 1:22 AM
First after lunch, Ahrens and Moelders on phonetic variation in Tyneside English possessive "me" versus object pronoun "me." #methods18
July 2, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Looking at ethnolects in Toronto, the British/Irish and Chinese speakers cluster closely together, while Italians are quite dispersed. #methods18
July 4, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Changes in possessive pronoun are less consistent. But across the two variables, the cohort in their 30s shows the most change over time. #methods18
July 2, 2024 at 6:46 AM
The archive introduced in this talk is the Jimmie Barker collection, a corpus of 113 hours of recordings made in Muruwari County in the mid 20th century, including recordings of the Muruwari language. #methods18
June 30, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Native English speakers reduce their use of t/d deletion over time living in Japan, possibly due to long-term interaction with non-native speakers. #methods18
July 2, 2024 at 5:35 AM
Metalinguistic comments and attribute judgements in the perception study confirms that the Lebanese accent continues to be perceived negatively. Serious implications for Lebanese Australian youth. #methods18
July 1, 2024 at 3:48 AM
The presenters are discussing how indigenous people in Australia have distinct understandings of how their languages relate to one another than differs from outside reseachers' understandings. #methods18
July 1, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Final talk of the day, James Grama is presenting his work with colleagues on a panel study of FACE and possessive "me" in the NE of England. #methods18
July 2, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Chinese participants identified features in Chinese Toronto English including "th" fronting to /f/, high pitch, pauses, soft speech, unconfident stance. Associated vocalized /l/ with first gen speakers. #methods18
July 1, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Last day of the #methods18 conference! First up, Felicity Meakins and colleagues are presenting on modeling variables across time and space in the emergence of new dialects. She's introducing a Bayesian implementation of varbrul!
July 3, 2024 at 11:36 PM