The NYU Sociolab had a strong showing at the 50th New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) conference, hosted by Stanford University from October 13–15! Current lab members (noted with *), alumni, and friends presenting at the conference included:

Project launch: Mocking or “Relajo”? A two-pronged approach to in-group joking in Latinx communities

Jose Alvarez Retamales*

Talking Black in America: Panel Presentation

Renée Blake*, Danica Cullinan, Marissa Morgan

Project launch: SocialEyes: Testing the mechanism behind child incrementation

Ailís Cournane*, Laurel MacKenzie*

Panel: Cross-linguistic analysis of subject pronoun expression

Is variable subject pronoun expression parametric?

Gregory R. Guy*

Can change from without be change from below?

Allison Shapp (NYU PhD 2019), Michael Marinaccio (NYU BA 2020), John Victor Singler*

Language contact and word order variation in Chanka Quechua

Natalie Povilonis (Indiana University; NYU PhD 2021)

Detecting the envelope of variation using computational language models

Isaac L. Bleaman (UC Berkeley; NYU PhD 2018), Rhea Kommerell

Computationally deriving language-internal factors with bipartite networks

Daniel Duncan (Newcastle University; NYU PhD 2018)

Prosodic Variation in the Speech of Black/biracial Women: Pitch Accents and Peak Delay Differences as a Function of Interlocutor

Nicole Holliday (Pomona College; NYU PhD 2016)

Relating rates and constraints in subject pronominal variation

Daniel Erker (Boston University; NYU PhD 2012)

Exploring the indexical field of uptalk in a matched-guise study: One variable, many personae
Montreal Benesch, Satchel Petty, Parker Scarpa, Kara Becker (Reed College; NYU PhD 2010)

Social dimensions in subject pronoun expression

Rafael Orozco (Louisiana State University; NYU PhD 2004), Paul Kidhardt, Bob Bayley

Project launch: The SEC Spanish Consortium: Working towards equity and documenting language change among Latinx populations in New Destination Communities of the U.S. South

Stephen Fafulas, Chad Howe, Dennis Preston, Aris Moreno, Rafael Orozco (Louisiana State University; NYU PhD 2004), Erin O'Rourke, Alicia Cipria, Nina Moreno

From sounding (-r)ful to sounding hip

Ronald Beline Mendes (Universidade de São Paulo; NYU visitor 2001–2002)

Person/number: Disentangling cognitive effects and the role of politeness

Aria Adli (University of Cologne; NYU visitor 2004–2007)

Non-lexical filled pauses in eh... Brazilian Portuguese dialectal contact

Livia Oushiro (University of Campinas; NYU visitor 2012–2013)

Below are a picture from some of our talks and the Talking Black in America panel talk as well as an NYU group picture.