Did you catch the Program in Linguistics at Brown University in the Big Apple? Faculty were able to present at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference, which took place in New York City from October 13th-15th. Associate Professor Uriel Cohen Priva gave a talk about his work on “The actuation of unstressed /a/-raising in Modern Hebrew”, while Visiting Assisting Professor Jaime Benheim gave a talk titled “/t/-release and burst duration in the construction of Jewish masculinity”. Chaya Nove, Postdoc Research Associate also presented "Linguistic innovation or ancestral feature? The case of tsuzamen and tsam in Hasidic Yiddish". Additionally, Brown Linguistics alumna Chiara Repetti-Ludlow '18 gave a talk titled "You best button [bʌɾən] it up: An American English change-in-progress with people identified as Black taking the lead".  

Check out these abstracts and more at https://nwav51.org/test/call-for-abstracts/