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Workshop Schedule (preliminary, subject to change)
Thursday 20 April
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-10:00 | Registration & Coffee |
| 10:00-10:15 | Welcome |
| 10:15-11:00 | Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero: Individual differences and the explanation of sound change |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-13:00 | Accepted talks (3) session 1 |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-16:00 | Coffee and poster session 1 |
| 16:00-16:45 | Jeff Mielke, Bridget Smith, and Michael J. Fox: A corpus and articulatory study of covert articulatory variation and its phonological consequences in Raleigh, NC English |
| 16:45-17:30 | Alejandrina Cristia, Amanda Seidl, and Emmanuel Dupoux: Individual variation and sound change in the context of first language acquisition |
| 17:30-19:00 | Reception |
Friday 21 April
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:30 | Coffee |
| 09:30-10:15 | Penelope Eckert: The individual in the semiotic landscape |
| 10:15-11:00 | Robin Dodsworth: Bipartite network structures and individual differences in sound change |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-13:00 | Accepted talks (3) session 2 |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-16:00 | Coffee and poster session 2 |
| 16:00-16:45 | Dan Dediu, Scott R. Moisik, and Rick Janssen: Constraints, affordances, biases: the gentle influence of between-populations variation in vocal tract anatomy on sound change |
| 16:45-17:30 | Laurel MacKenzie: Perturbing the community grammar: Individual differences and lifespan effects on language production |
| 17:30-20:00 | Break |
| 20:00- | Conference dinner (optional) |
Saturday 22 April
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:30 | Coffee |
| 09:30-10:15 | Jonathan Harrington, Florian Schiel, and Mary Stevens: Associating the origin and spread of sound change using agent-based modelling applied to /s/-retraction in English |
| 10:15-11:45 | Poster session 3 |
| 11:45-12:30 | Alan Yu: Revisiting the notions of sound change actuation and phonologization |
| 12:30-13:00 | General discussion & closing |
Invited speakers
- Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (Manchester)
- Alejandrina Cristia (LCSP Paris)
- Dan Dediu (MPI Nijmegen)
- Robin Dodsworth (NCSU)
- Penelope Eckert (Stanford)
- Jonathan Harrington (IPS Munich)
- Laurel MacKenzie (NYU)
- Jeff Mielke (NCSU)
- Alan Yu (Chicago)
Steering committee
Local organising committee
PhD assistants
- Zac Boyd
- Victoria Dickson
- Mirjam Eiswirth
- Zuzana Elliott
- Fengying Ruan
- Jade Jørgen Sanstead