Programme

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(Abstracts can be downloaded in PDF format by clicking on each speaker's name.)

Monday 10th September

Time	Activity	Venue
16.00-23.00	Registration, collection of room keys and parking permits	The Conference Centre (Campus map)

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Tuesday 11th September

Time	Activity	Venue
09.00-09.30	REGISTRATION AND WELCOME	Foyer outside Management School LT1 (Campus map)
09.30-10.30	Keynote: "We do say, in' he?, don't we?": Using tag questions to explore the multimodal and linguistically-layered nature of style Emma Moore (University of Sheffield)	Management School LT1
10.30-11.00	What the /l/ is happening in Glasgow! Zoe Butterfint (University of East Anglia) and Natalie Braber (Nottingham Trent University)
11.00-11.30	COFFEE
11.30-12.00	An investigation into the spread of non-coronal consonantal variants in the speech of young Devonians Eleanor Lawson (Queen Margaret University)	Management School LT1
12.00-12.30	Phonological innovation in London teenage speech: New multiethnic norms? Eivind Torgersen and Paul Kerswill (Lancaster University), Sue Fox (Queen Mary, University of London)
12.30-13.00	Utterance-final debuccalisation in Liverpool English Kevin Watson (Lancaster University)
13.00-14.00	LUNCH
14.00-14.30	Patterns of meaning variation in contemporary English Justyna Robinson (University of Sheffield)	Management School LT1
14.30-15.00	Transfer of variable rules Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Edinburgh)
15.00-15.30	Placing prepositions in early and late Modern English texts: genre variation and idiolectal preferences Nuria Yanez-Bouza (University of Manchester)
15.30-16.00	TEA
16.00-16.30	What is 'dialect levelling'? Warren Maguire (University of Edinburgh)	Management School LT1
16.30-17.00	Cross-disciplinary insights on regional dialect levelling Dave Sayers (University of Essex)
17.00-18.00	Keynote: Investigating emerging ethnolects of Dutch: methods and first findings Frans Hinskens (Meertens Instituut and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
18.00-20.00	POSTER AND WINE RECEPTION	The Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) (Campus map)

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Wednesday 12th September

Parallel sessions day - for most of the day, presentations will be given in two separate (adjacent) venues, as follows. The day will finish with a keynote presentation, followed by the conference dinner.

Time	In Management School LT 1:	In Management School LT 2:
9.00-9.30	The perception of variation in French: sex, class and stereotypes Zoe Boughton (University of Exeter)	Towards a cognitive model of contact-induced grammatical change Christopher Lucas (University of Cambridge)
9.30-10.00		When Najd meets Hijaz: Dialect contact in Jeddah Aziza Alessa (University of Essex)
10.00-10.30	Methodological approaches to the study of perceptions Chris Montgomery (University of Sheffield)	Women making use of a male sound change Suzanne Evans Wagner (Michigan State University)
10.30-11.00	COFFEE
11.00-11.30	Variation and Change in New Zealand English phrase-final /t/ Gerry Docherty (Newcastle University), Jen Hay and Abby Walker (University of Canterbury)
11.30-12.00	Sound change and the individual: An acoustic study of Standard Southern British English vowels Kirsty McDougall and Gea De Jong (University of Cambridge)	Variation and change in the negation system of a British English dialect Heike Pichler (University of Aberdeen)
12.00-12.30	The Southern Shift in a marginally Southern dialect Maciej Baranowski (University of Manchester)	It's not up North but it's down South, ain't it? A regional examination of auxiliary versus negator contraction Jennifer Amos, Michelle Brana-Straw, David Britain, Heather Grainger, Caroline Piercy, Amanda Rigby, Joanna Ryfa and Phillip Tipton (University of Essex)
12.30-13.00	Yod dropping as a case of drift in data from Amman Arabic Enam Al-Wer (University of Essex)	Variable 'subject' presence in Australian Sign Language narratives Adam C Schembri (University College London) and Trevor Johnston (Macquarie University)
13.00-14.00	LUNCH
14.00-14.30	Intraindividual variation across the lifespan - a case study Nikolai Pharao (University of Copenhagen)	Speakers can 'talk the talk', but can they 'walk the walk' too?: measuring syntactic variability using different instruments Tejshree Auckle, Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan and Anders Holmberg (University of Newcastle)
14.30-15.00		Relatives from the South Dave Britain (University of Essex), Jenny Cheshire and Sue Fox (Queen Mary, University of London)
15.00-15.30	Drift in White South African English - an acoustic analysis Ian Bekker (Rhodes University)	The (socio-)linguistic cycle of Definite Article Reduction Laura Rupp (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
15.30-16.00	TEA
16.00-16.30	Looking variation and change in the mouth: preliminary findings from an ultrasound study of derhoticization in Scottish English Jim Scobbie (Queen Margaret University), Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow) and Eleanor Lawson (Queen Margaret University)	Modal verbs in traditional British English dialects: system and variation Monika Schultz (Freiburg University)
16.30-17.00	Voicing and tonal variation among dialects in Kera (Chadic) Mary Pearce (University College London)	SABID discussion
17.00-18.00	Keynote: Variation and change in accents of English: insights from computational methods April McMahon (University of Edinburgh)
19.30-late	CONFERENCE DINNER

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Thursday 13th September

Time	Activity	Venue
09.00-09.30	Colchester chavs and grungers and the creation of distinct speech styles Joanna Ryfa (University of Essex)	Management School LT1
09.30-10.00	Lexical diffusion across an international border: Foreign /a/ words in Canadian English Charles Boberg (McGill University)
10.00-10.30	The creative use of first person pronouns in two Teesside primary schools Julia Snell (University of Leeds)
10.30-11.00	Coffee
11.00-11.30	A sociolinguistic study of Birmingham English: language variation and change in a multi-ethnic British community Arfaan Khan (Lancaster University)	Management School LT1
11.30-12.00	On ditransitive constructions in Northern and Western English dialects Bill Haddican and Hannah Rolles (University of York)
12.00-12.30	Deconstructing authenticity: the relationship between ethnicity, identity and style Mark Sebba and Susan Dray (Lancaster University)
12.30-13.00	Language and identity in Glaswasian adolescents: an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of multilingual Muslim girls in an urban secondary school Farhana Alam (University of Glasgow)
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.30	On indeterminacy in the social meaning of variation Elaine Chun (University of South Carolina) and Rob Podesva (Georgetown University)	Management School LT1
14.30-15.00	Constructing new social distinction through linguistic innovation Qing Zhang (University of Texas at Austin)
15.00-15.30	"Aye, I watch it but": individuals, television and language change Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow) and Claire Timmins (Queen Margaret University)
15.30-16.00	Tea
16.00-16.30	"Du's here, du's alive!" The survival of relic forms in a Shetland dialect Mercedes Durham and Jennifer Smith (University of Glasgow)	Management School LT1
16.30-17.00	Creole/AAVE copula patterning: an L2 learning effect? Devyani Sharma (King's College London) and John Rickford (Stanford University)
17.00-18.00	Keynote: Off the shelf or under the counter? On the social dynamics of sound changes Lesley Milroy (University of Michigan)
TBC (evening)	Business meeting	TBC

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Friday 14th September

Time	Activity
10.00-15.00	Excursion - tour of the Morecambe Bay area. See the Social Events page for further details.

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