Brown linguists were well represented at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) conference on November 7-9, hosted by Florida International University and the University of Miami! NWAV is the major annual sociolinguistics conference in the United States. Our talks featured work from 6 linguists, 3 languages, 1 UTRA, and a lot of ELAN, Praat, and ggplot.
- Postdoctoral Research Associate Chaya Nove presented "The origins of New York Hasidic Yiddish: A lexical exploration."
- Talia Sherman ('26) and Visiting Assistant Professor Jaime Benheim presented "Locating class in place: An analysis of Boston and Rhode Island personae performances."
- Jaime Benheim, Adia Colvin ('26), and Julia Dubnoff ('27) presented "Locat(ING) social meaning: Gender, orientation to place, and local personae in Chicago."
- Alumna Chiara Repetti-Ludlow (AB '18, now a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University) presented "Age and acoustic cues: Evidence for a change in progress in Italian stop voicing."
