UGA Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students Present at NWAV 49

The NWAV 29 Conference (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) was held virtually hosted by the University of Texas at Austin October 19-24, and the University of Georgia's Linguistics Department was well represented!

Dr. Peggy Renwick co-authored two papers that were presented: one with former UGA Linguistics graduate Joseph Stanley "100 Years of Georgia English", and the second with current Linguistics graduate student Keiko Bridwell "Social predictors of the wine-whine merger in the US South".

Dr. Jon Forrest presented "Multiple Social Routes: Connecting Stance Accretion to Aggregate Variation".

PhD candidate Rachel Kim presented "Korean American English in GA: [+back] on the B/OW/T".

PhD candidate Andrew Bray presented "[ˈhɑ̞ki]: An Emerging Third-Order Index of a Hockey-Based Persona".

PhD candidate Joshua McNeill presented "LOL on Twitter: A test case for community detection".