Presentations

“Observin’, like, youth-based linguistic discrimination in American higher education.” with He Bai, Montreal Benesch, Leo Latimer, Satchel Petty, and Parker Scarpa. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society (ADS), Denver, CO, January 2023.

“Uptalk, personae, and perceived sexuality: A matched-guise study.” With Montreal Benesch, Satchel Petty, and Parker Scarpa. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society (ADS), Denver, CO, January 2023.

 “Exploring the indexical field of uptalk in a matched-guise study: One variable, many personae.” Montreal Benesch, Satchel Petty, Parker, Scarpa, and Kara Becker. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 50, Stanford, CA, October 2022.

“Uptalk as semiotic “traveler:” Exploring the variable-persona link in a matched guise study. With Montreal Benesch, Anna Farrar, Gloria Herman, Satchel Petty, and Parker Scarpa. Cascadia Workshop in Linguistics (CWSL), May 2022.

 “Rural speakers are shifting, too: The Low-Back-Merger Shift in Moscow, Idaho and Port Townsend, Washington.” With Cecilia Bahls and Arthur Garrison. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 2020.

“”SO OFFENDED THIS TITLE IS NOT CAPITALIZED!:” Variation and the Social Justice Warrior Persona. with Olivia Johnson. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), Eugene, OR October 2019.

“The Low-Back-Merger Shift in Port Townsend, WA.” with Cecilia Bahls. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), Eugene, OR October 2019.

“Teaching Variation: From the classroom into the field.” with Kirk Hazen. Workshop presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), Eugene, OR October 2019.

“The social meaning of bat–backing in three West Coast Cities.” with Julia Swan. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society Annual meeting, New York City, NY, January 2019.

“Variation in /s/-fronting in a diverse sample of speakers for sex/gender/sexuality.” with M Stoddard. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), New York City, NY, October 2018.

“The social meaning of bag–raising in three West Coast Cities.” with Julia Swan. Paper presented at Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL), Portland, OR, April 2018.

“A look at /s/-fronting in a diverse sample of speakers for sex/gender/sexuality.” with M Stoddard and Samantha Peterson. Paper presented at Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL), Portland, OR, April 2018.

“Chain Shifting in the Third Dialect: A dialogue on the similarities between the Californian and Canadian Vowel Shifts. Panel organized at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, Salt Lake City, January 2018.

“The Myth of the New York City Borough Accent.” Poster Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), Madison, WI, November 2017.

“The Third Dialect: Dialectology in the Wild West.” Colloquium presented at the University of Washington, March 2017.

“Creaky voice beyond binary gender.” with Sameer ud dowla Khan and Lal Zimman. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, Austin, TX, January 2017.

“Perceptions of trap-backing in Oregon English.” With Richard Adcock. Paper presented at Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CSWL), March 2016.

“Acoustic correlates of perceived creaky voice in a controlled sample of American English.” With Sameer ud dowla Khan and Lal Zimman. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA), Washington D.C., January 2016.

“Raised BOUGHT in New Orleans and New York City: It’s not what you THOUGHT.” With Katie Carmichael. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, Washington, D.C., January 2016.

“The acoustics of perceived creaky voice in American English.” With Sameer ud dowla Khan and Lal Zimman. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Acoustic Society of America (ASA), November 2015.

“Creaky voice in a diverse gender sample: Challenging ideologies about sex, gender, and creak in American English.” Paper to be presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 44, Toronto, CA, October 2015.

“Variation in West Coast English: The case of Oregon.” With Anna Aden, Katelyn Best, and Haley Jacobson. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society, Portland, OR, January 2015.

“That Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico:” What (r) can tell us about English in New York City and New Orleans. Paper to be presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 43, Chicago IL, October 2014.

“Ideologies of Non-Accent: Linking Perception and Production in Oregon English.” With Anna Aden and Katelyn Best. Paper presented at Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL), University of Victoria, March 2014.

“Keep Portland Weird: Vowels in Oregon English.” With Anna Aden, Katelyn Best, Rena Dimes, Juan Flores, and Haley Jacobson. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 42, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2013.

“Operationalizing Place: /r/ vocalization and place ideology on New York City’s Lower East Side. Poster presented at The Ohio State University Linguistics Department Symposium on Place, Columbus, OH, April 2013. 

“(R) we there yet? The state of coda /r/ vocalization on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.” Paper to be presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 41, October 2012. Download a PDF of the PPT presentation here.

“Vowels and ethnicity on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.” Paper presented as part of a panel, “New perspectives on the concept of ethnolect,” Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), Portland, OR, January 2012.

“What happens when the roadblock to merger is lifted? The low back vowels in New York City English.” With Amy Wing-Mei Wong. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of American (LSA), Portland, OR, January 2012.

"The social meaning(s) of raised BOUGHT in New York City: A perceptual approach." Paper presented at New Ways of Analayzing Variation, Georgetown University, October 2011. Downlaod a PDF of the Powerpoint here.

"It’s c[æ]ts and d[ø]gs out there: Speakers, groups, and community on the Lower East Side of Manhattan." Colloquium presented at the University of Oregon, February 4, 2011.

“Back Vowels on Manhattan’s Lower East Side: A current look at New York City English.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, (ADS), Baltimore, MD, January 2010.

“The current state of BOUGHT-raising on Manhattan’s Lower East Side: Who uses Coffee Talk?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Baltimore, MD, January 2010.

Talking social conflict: Recursivity and reflexivity on the Lower East Side of New York City. Paper presented in the panel "Reflexivity, Register, and the Ends of Ethnographic Analysis," at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Philadelphia, 2009.

Is Coffee Talk Lost? BOUGHT-Raising on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 38, University of Ottowa, 2009.

The short-a system in white and minority speakers of New York City English (with Amy Wing-Mei Wong). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), San Francisco, January 2009.

The short-a system of New York City English: An update (with Amy Wing-Mei Wong). Poster presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 37, Rice University, 2008.

The vowel phonologies of African American and white New Yorkers (with Elizabeth L. Coggshall). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Chicago, Illinois, January 2008.

/r/, Place and Identity in New York City's Lower East Side. Paper presented at CLASP (Conference on Language and Social Practice), Boulder Colorado, October 2007.

The Individual Low Front Vowel Systems of New York City English Speakers. Paper presented at the CUNY/SUNY/NYU Graduate Student Conference, March 2006.

The Low Back Vowel Distinction in New York City English (with Jocelyn Doxsey, Marcos Rohena-Madrazo, and Amy Wong). Poster presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 34, New York University, 2005.