UO LVC @ LSA/ADS

Last weekend, several members of the LVC lab presented papers at both the LSA and ADS annual meetings, which were held at the Grand American Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah. More information available at the LSA Annual Meeting website.

  • Valerie Fridland (University of Nevada, Reno), Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon): What is the California Vowel Shift? And, how would we know?
  • Charlotte Vaughn (University of Oregon), Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon), Kaylynn Gunter (University of Oregon): Exploring the social meaning of adjective intensification
  • Misaki Kato (University of Oregon, SPPL Lab), Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Oregon, SPPL Lab), Charlotte Vaughn (University of Oregon), Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon): The effects of pause location and duration on perceived fluency of native and non-native speech

And on January 6th, at the New Data and New Research on African American Language symposium, the LVC Lab unveiled the Online Resources for African American Language (ORAAL) and officially released the first version of the Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL). Several lab members presented papers at the symposium, including:

  • Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon): Introducing CORAAL: the design and implementation of the Corpus of Regional African American Language
  • Taylor Jones (University of Pennsylvania), Jason McLarty (University of Oregon), Chris Hall (CulturePoint, LLC): Corpus-based sociophonetic approaches to gradient post-vocalic r-lessness in African American Language
  • Charlie Farrington (University of Oregon), Shelby Arnson (University of Oregon), Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon): Back vowel changes in Washington DC African American Language over the twentieth century

Members of the LVC Lab in Salt Lake City