We are happy to announce that Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia will host the fourth Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL) online on May 6, 2022. This student-centred event has the primary aim of bringing together researchers working on sociolinguistic topics of interest in the Pacific Northwest and building community among sociolinguists at institutions in the region.
Date/Time: Friday, May 6, 2022 (9:00 am – 2:30 pm PDT)
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69879956431?pwd=am9uKzlPMW5QWXBPdk82a2VmbldQZz09
Meeting ID: 698 7995 6431
Passcode: 552941
Schedule
| Time (PDT) | Session 1 (Chair: Panos Pappas) |
| 9:00 – 9:15 am | Opening Remarks and Land Acknowledgement |
| 9:15 – 9:45 am | Exploring phonetic variation and the individual grammar: Sociolinguistics and fieldwork in the context of smaller speech communities Gloria Mellesmoen (University of British Columbia) |
| 9:45 – 10:15 am | Recognition & representation of Cantonese sound change variants in the lexicon Rachel Soo (University of British Columbia) |
| 10:15 – 10:45 am | Evaluating the accuracy of forced alignment across Mandarin varieties Suyuan Liu, Sijia Zhang, and Márton Sóskuthy (University of British Columbia) |
| 10:45 – 11:15 am | Break (30 min) |
| Session 2 (Chair: Márton Sóskuthy) | |
| 11:15 – 11:45 am | Uptalk as hitchhiker: Exploring the variable-persona link in a matched-guise study Kara Becker, Montreal Benesch, Anna Farrar, Gloria Herman, Satchel Petty, and Parker Scarpa (Reed College) |
| 11:45 am – 12:15 pm | /s/tylizing the /s/elf: A first look into the concurrent fluidity of gender and language Montreal Benesch (Reed College) |
| 12:15 – 1:15 pm | Lunch Break (1 hour) |
| Session 3 (Chair: Amanda Cardoso) | |
| 1:15 – 1:45 pm | Generational change in formant trajectories: The Low-Back-Merger Shift in Longview, Washington Joey Stanley (University of Georgia) |
| 1:45 – 2:15 pm | Exploring Washington’s ties to the Upper Midwest: Monophthongal /oʊ/ among Nordic Americans in Seattle Julia Swan, Laura Castro, and Nichole Rosten (San José State University) |
| 2:15 – 2:30 pm | Closing Remarks |
