In her #NWAV53 plenary, King discusses an example of a juror being dismissed from the pool due to forestressing in the word police (so PO-lice), because the prosecutor claimed that the pronunciation showed animus towards law enforcement. And this is exactly why I study prosody!
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Dr. Sharese King giving the #nwav53 plenary getting into the good stuff. im nerding out about semiotics sooooo much rn
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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lesbians have lower f0 than bi & straight women, bi women and straight women don't have a s.d. in f0 in spontaneous speach (sulkin #nwav53)
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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pronouns mentioned (jack's speaker sample talking about using he/they as indexing being "not" in a particular "subset of nonbinary people") #nwav53
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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i will say. due to 3 nonbinary talks in a row. i think we gotta theorize nonbinary better in sociolinguistics. nonbinary is not "a" "gender" #nwav53
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Welcome to #nwav53 day 2! We are in the Michigan League all day. The Koessler room is on floor #3 and all remaining sessions are on floor #2.
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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LOVE how so far literally all the talks in the lgbtq session of #nwav53 are about nonbinary speakers. having a great time, eating good, personally
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Not to brag but I had a dazzling shower and musical mirror this morning - best day of #NWAV53??
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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poster presentation #1 all done 🤍 massive thank you to all the lovely people that approached my poster and let me ramble on Miami and rootedness for a few minutes. i loved chatting with y’all and hearing about other people’s dialectology research 🤞🏽 stay tuned for poster #2 on memes tmrrrr #nwav53
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Poster session #1 is taking place now until 3:45 in Palmer Commons Great Lakes. See you there! #nwav53
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I tried checking "bro" too and it is also a pronoun in our data
check this amazing data point w vocative "dude" and pronoun "bro": "I'm in a poly situation and dude, bro fell in love with me and I didn't want to be serious"
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check this amazing data point w vocative "dude" and pronoun "bro": "I'm in a poly situation and dude, bro fell in love with me and I didn't want to be serious"
#NWAV53
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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RR gets *more* formal (more stylistic fronting) in 2009 after the economic crash - the opposite direction from her political party
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November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Stefánsdóttir, Mechler & Ingason on individual lifespan change - stylistic fronting in a single Icelandic MP (Ragnheiður Ríkharðsdóttir) - tracking her changes in political speeches over DECADES!
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November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Georgetown linguists are giving 6 talks and 2 posters at #NWAV53 this week! #Linguistics 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Gousset now on interspeaker vs intraspeaker covariation patterns in Tyneside
Asking: does dialect leveling affect different social groups uniformly?
Answer: No! Intragroup coherence still explains a great deal of the data
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Asking: does dialect leveling affect different social groups uniformly?
Answer: No! Intragroup coherence still explains a great deal of the data
#NWAV53
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Question from the audience: “can dude be used as a pronoun”?
I checked our MI Diaries data and in Michigan the answer is “yes”!
“But regardless, dude has a show about it on vice”
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I checked our MI Diaries data and in Michigan the answer is “yes”!
“But regardless, dude has a show about it on vice”
#NWAV53
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Kiesling compares self-reported data from 2004 and 2023 - finding:
1) ppl use “dude” more with more close interlocutors
2) whether you’re talking w a man v woman matters less now (both similarly likely to be called “dude”)
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1) ppl use “dude” more with more close interlocutors
2) whether you’re talking w a man v woman matters less now (both similarly likely to be called “dude”)
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November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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“Dude” originally an insult (from “yankee doodle” in the 1880s), remaining w negative association in the 1940s/50s for zoot suiters
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November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Kiesling on the history of “dude” as a vocative (being replaced by “bro/bruh” aka the “brocatives”??)
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November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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PVI (a measure of syllable vs stress timed speech - higher = more stress timed)
Spkrs w more social groupings (eg friends from School, Home, Work) have higher PVI. regression on white spkrs also shows higher density networks = more stress timed
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Spkrs w more social groupings (eg friends from School, Home, Work) have higher PVI. regression on white spkrs also shows higher density networks = more stress timed
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November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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I'm not at #NWAV53 but the South Wales Speech project is. Check out our poster today and chat to Ianto (my co-author) about /t/ in Welsh English. We have glottals, we have taps, we have [ɹ], we have [h], we have zero (but not as t/d deletion) and more.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Let’s go #NWAV53! The acquisition session was 🔥, but I didn’t have my phone out so couldn’t share the highlights (sorry!)
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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