UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS
New research on mergers among pre-lateral back vowels at NWAV 52:
- “Natural Class Reorganization over Apparent Time by Prelateral /u/ and /oʊ/ in Georgia” with Joey Stanley, Lelia Glass and Jon Forrest
Renwick Lab’s research team will give two presentations at the American Dialect Society meeting in 2025:
- “Complementary pre-lateral mergers across ethnicities and generations in Georgia” with Joey Stanley, Lelia Glass and Jon Forrest
- “Variation in rootedness: Vowel systems across culturally differing North Georgia counties” with Keiko Bridwell
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
“Evaluating Italian Vowel Variation with the Recurrent Neural Network Phonet.” Poster with Austin Jones at INTERSPEECH 2024. Kos, Greece. September 2024.
“Phonological Feature Detection for US English using the Phonet Library.” Poster with Harsha-Veena Tadavarthy and Austin Jones at INTERSPEECH 2024. Kos, Greece. September 2024.
“Modeling phonological and phonetic variation in regional Italian mid-vowel systems.” Talk with Joshua M. Griffiths at the 54th Symposium on Romance Languages. Provo, UT. May 2024.
“Endangered Romance varieties in the Istria-Kvarner region, Croatia: Status of Istriot, Istro-Romanian and Istro-Venetian and corpus building for documentation and research.” Talk with Zvjezdana Vrzić, Keith Langston, and John T. Hale at the 54th Symposium on Romance Languages. Provo, UT. May 2024.
Movement, Economy, Orientation: 20th Century Shifts in North American Language. Co-organized by Joseph A. Stanley, Monica Nesbitt and Margaret E. L. Renwick. Panel at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society. New York, NY. January 5, 2024.
“Impacts of structure, usage and phonetics on Italian mid vowels.” Talk at “Phonetics and phonology – Beyond Romance” workshop within the 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 53). Paris, France. June 30, 2023.
“Vowel trajectories of African Americans in Georgia, USA” with Jon Forrest, Lelia Glass, and Joseph A. Stanley. Poster presentation at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Nashville, TN. December 5 – 9, 2022. [poster]
“Palatalization of /d/ across word boundaries in UK English” with Sara E. Miller and Austin Brailey-Jones. Poster presentation at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Nashville, TN. December 5 – 9, 2022. [poster]
“Regional Distinctiveness and Development: African-American Vowel Systems in Georgia” with Jon Forrest and Lelia Glass. Oral presentation at NWAV 50. October 13 – 15, 2022.
“A Mid-Century Peak for the Southern Vowel Shift: Evidence from Georgia” with Joseph A. Stanley, Jon Forrest, and Lelia Glass. Oral presentation at LabPhon18, the 18th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. June 23 – 25, 2022.
“Accounting for /t/ palatalization across word boundaries in UK English” with Austin Brailey-Jones and Sara E. Miller. Poster presentation at LabPhon18, the 18th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. June 23 – 25, 2022.
“Contrast and variation in three Romance vowel systems.” Invited keynote address at the 52nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 52), University of Wisconsin-Madison. April 21 – 23, 2022.
“Perspectives on Georgia vowels: From legacy to synchrony” with Joseph A. Stanley, Jon Forrest, and Lelia Glass. Oral presentation at ADS 2022. January 6 – 9, 2022.
“A Linguistic Analysis of English Personal Names” with Savannah Jane Williams. Poster presentation at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington, D.C. January 6 – 9, 2022.