Registration is open for Bridging fieldwork, corpus, and experimental methods to study sociolectal variation, July 8-9, 2023, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, during the 2023 Linguistic Institute! Registration closes at the end of the day June 9, 2023.
Website: https://blogs.umass.edu/bridging-socio/
Register by June 9, 2023, at our website to attend either in-person or virtually. Note: availability of accommodations for in-person attendance is very limited. Registration is free.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers working from different perspectives and methodologies to study sociolectal variation, with a special focus on African American Language. We are especially excited to bring together researchers working with computational methods and researchers doing community-based fieldwork. Our invited speakers are:
Jamell Dacon (Michigan State)
Jacob Eisenstein (Google)
Charlie Farrington (Virginia Tech)
Sabriya Fisher (Wellesley College)
Camille Harris (Georgia Tech)
Nicole Holliday (Pomona College)
Sharese King (University of Chicago)
Gretchen McCulloch (Lingthusiasm)
Dong Nguyen (Utrecht University)
Michael Terry (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
Tracey Weldon (Greenwood Ashers & Associates)
Further details on the program and abstracts are at our website. The general schedule is:
Saturday (July 8): A full day of research talks from invited speakers
Sunday (July 9): Research talks from grant group members, a tutorial on using computational methods for studying sociolectal variation, and closing panel discussion
The workshop is being organized by the research group working on NSF grant BCS 2042939, “Understanding variation in African American Language: Corpus and prosodic fieldwork perspectives” (PIs Meghan Armstrong-Abrami, Lisa Green, Brendan O’Connor, and Kristine Yu). We gratefully acknowledge support from the NSF for the workshop.
If you have questions about the workshop, please contact the organizers via Kristine Yu.