Spring quarter at LVC

In light of recent epidemiological circumstances, the organizers of LVC will be suspending all workshop activities for the spring quarter. We had had a wonderful lineup of speakers planned, and we are truly disappointed to have to do this. We hope that you will join us in Fall 2020.

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Friday, March 6: Perry Wong (UChicago)

Please join us the final meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop for the winter quarter, this Friday, March 6, from 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Time perspective in phonology and morphology, studies in descriptive paradox Perry Wong, University of Chicago The purpose of this paper is to locate the […]

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Friday, February 28: Tracy Conner (UCSB)

Please join us this week for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, February 28, from 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. Eliciting silence: Ellipsis as a constraint on morphosyntactic variation in African American English Tracy Conner, University of California, Santa Barbara Labov’s (1969) research documented that African American English (AAE) allows two […]

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Friday, February 14: Jonathan Rosa (Stanford)

Please join us this week for a joint meeting of the Semiotics: Culture in Context and Language Variation & Change workshops, this Friday, February 14, from 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Raciolinguistic ideologies: Theory/method/politics Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University In scholarly and popular discourse alike, racial categories and linguistic forms are often […]

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Friday, January 17: Hannah Sande (Georgetown)

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, Friday, January 17, at 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. Cross-word nasal harmony in Ebrié Hannah Sande, Georgetown University I present data collected with three speakers of Ebrié (Kwa) in Côte d’Ivoire in Summer 2019 showing a cross-word nasal harmony process that affects both consonants and vowels: […]

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Friday, December 6: Jessica Kantarovich (UChicago)

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop this Friday, December 6, at 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Argument structural variation in a shifting linguistic community: Findings from a controlled production study of Chukchi Jessica Kantarovich, University of Chicago Speakers in endangered language communities often evidence […]

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