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2012 |
Ethnolects at the intersection of variable phonological processes: (ING) and (NK) in Toronto English.
Accepted for presentation at Change and Variation in Canada 6, McGill University/Université du Québec à Montréal,
Montreal, QC, June 2012.
Soundin(g(k)) ethnic in Toronto. Accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the
Canadian Linguistics Association, Kitchener-Waterloo, ON, May 2012.
Community, continuity and change: Phonetic variation and ethnicity in Toronto English.
Paper presented at the symposium session New Perspectives on the Concept of Ethnolect. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America,
Portland, OR, January 2012. (Co-author: M. Hoffman).
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2011 |
Enclaves and ethnolects in Toronto. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40. Georgetown University, Washington, DC, October 29. (Co-author: M. Hoffman). [ Handout in PDF | PowerPoint in PDF ]
Sociolinguistic practice among multilingual youth in Sweden and Canada. In The Importance of Being Ethnolect: An International Perspective. Colloquium at the Eighth International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Oslo, Norway. June 2011. (Co-authors: S. Boyd, M. Hoffman).
Grammatical variation in the Grenadines: Inherent variability and co-existent systems. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 19. (invited talk).
The forest or the trees? Lexical and individual-speaker effects in linguistic variation. Change and Variation in Canada V, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, May 14. (invited keynote address).
Ethnicity, identity and language variation in Toronto English. First International Symposium on Immigrant Languages, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, May 8. (invited talk).
The individual and sociolinguistic variation: Methodological and interpretive challenges. New York University, New York, NY, April. (invited workshop).
Multilingualism, ethnicity and linguistic variation. New York University, New York, NY, April.
(invited talk). Investigating the English and English-based creole of the Eastern Caribbean.
Département
de linguistique, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, January 28.
Phonological variation in Toronto English: Linguistic and social conditioning.
Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, January 12.
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2010 |
Grammatical variation and the sociolinguistic monitor: Plural existentials in Toronto English.
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39, San Antonio, TX. [Handout in PDF]
Interview on Metro Morning, CBC Radio, July 12.
Interview on Here and Now, CBC Radio, June 8.
(with Michol Hoffman) English in a multilingual context.
Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden, May 28.
(with Michol Hoffman) Ethnic Orientation and Linguistic Variation in Toronto English.
Göteborgs Universitet, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 18.
(with Michol Hoffman)
Interview on Fresh Air, CBC Radio, March 20.
Looking for agreement in the Eastern Caribbean: -s-marking on Bequia. Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics,
Baltimore, MD, January 9.
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2009 |
(with Miriam Meyerhoff and Agata Daleszynska) Marking the past and the present on Bequia. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 38, University of Ottawa, October 22-25. [Handout in PDF]
(with Naomi Nagy, Alexei Kochetov and Yoonjung Kang) Heritage language variation and change in Toronto. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 38, University of Ottawa, October 22-25. (with
Miriam Meyerhoff and Agata Daleszynska) Focusing on the 'in-between':
Linking regions, communities and individual speakers. The 7th UK Language Variation and Change Conference,
University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, September 1-3. (with Miriam Meyerhoff and Agata Daleszynska) Tense-marking in Bequia.
Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics,
Universität zu Köln, August 11-15. (with Michol Hoffman). Language shift and ethnolinguistic variation in a multilingual context.
International Symposium on Bilingualism 7,
Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 8-11. (Dis)Agreement in the Eastern Caribbean: Evidence from Bequia.
Eighth Creolistics Workshop, University of Gießen, Germany, April 2-4. (with Miriam Meyerhoff). Variation in the Use of Existentials on Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines)
Eighth Creolistics Workshop, University of Gießen, Germany, April 2-4. (with Rena Torres Cacoullos). The present of the future: Grammatical variation and collocations in English.
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, March 27. |
2008 |
Form, function, and frequency in Phonology: (t/d)-Deletion in Toronto.
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 37, Rice University, Houston, TX, November 6-9.
[Handout in PDF]
(with Miriam Meyerhoff). Grammatical variation and the sociolinguistic
monitor: Existentials on Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines). New Ways of Analyzing Variation 37, Rice University, Houston, TX, November 6-9.
(with Rena Torres Cacoullos). Collocation, collocation, collocation: Discourse formulas
in grammatical variation. Thirteenth International
Conference on Methods in Dialectology, University of Leeds, August 4-8. (invited panelist).
[PowerPoint in PDF] [Handout in PDF]
Above and beyond phonology in ethnolinguistic variation: Variable agreement and plural existentials in Toronto English.
Change and Variation in Canada II, University of Ottawa, June 21-22.
[PowerPoint in PDF] [Handout in PDF]
On the role of frequency and the lexicon in phonological variation: (t/d)-deletion in Toronto English.
Canadian Linguistic Association,
University of British Columbia, May 31-June 2. [Poster in PDF]
Grammatical variation, inherent variability, and coexistent systems. Workshop on Locating Variability: Formal Approaches. University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 24.
(with Jack Sidnell). "Not everybody speak the same": Negation on Bequia. University of Toronto, April 18.
(with Miriam Meyerhoff). On the social salience of grammatical variation: Existentials in Bequia. Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, April 3.
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