Look Who’s Talking: Stanford Linguists at NWAV 49

Many Stanford linguists will be presenting their work at the 49th New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference (NWAV 49), to be hosted virtually by the University of Texas at Austin from October 19 to 24.  Speakers include:

Zion Mengesha: “A Social Meaning Perspective on Vowel Trajectories: The Realization of FEEL and FILL Among African Americans in California”

Emily Lake and Luca Pistor: “Laughter as a Stylistic Resource in Early Childhood”

Lewis Esposito: “Interspeaker Covariation and Characterological Figures in Sacramento”

Anne Charity Hudley, along with Christine Mallinson, Aris Clemons, Carlos Nash, Kendra Calhoun, Jamaal Muwwakkil, Chloe Willis, and deandre miles-hercules: “Scholarly Communication in Pursuit of Publication Justice”

Also among the presenters are alums Isaac L. Bleaman (B.A. ’12), Jason Grafmiller (Ph.D. ’13), Sharese King (Ph.D. ’18), Roey Gafter (Ph.D. ’14), Rebecca Starr (Ph.D. ’11), Lauren Hall-Lew (Ph.D. ’09), and Lelia Glass (Ph.D. ’18).