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The development of NWAV:

The development of NWAV:. Gillian Sankoff, U. of Pennsylvania Panel presentation, NWAVE40, Georgetown University, Oct. 28 2011. Documentation of the first NWAV.

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The development of NWAV:

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  1. The development of NWAV: Gillian Sankoff, U. of Pennsylvania Panel presentation, NWAVE40, Georgetown University, Oct. 28 2011

  2. Documentation of the first NWAV • “In October 1972, Georgetown University hosted . . . The first annual colloquium on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English (NWAVE). A total of 64 papers was presented over a three-day period to an attendance of over 300 scholars. One of the guiding principles of the conference was to intermingle topics . . . Two separate volumes of selected papers from these meetings are being made available. [The one containing] the papers relating to variation . . . [is] New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Charles-James N. Bailey & Roger Shuy, eds., .Georgetown.University Press. 1973. [from the Introduction by Roger Shuy]

  3. New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Charles-James N. Bailey & Roger Shuy, eds., 1973 The volume was dedicated “To William Labov, who feed us from static analysis” p.iii and contained 373 pages, with sections on: Variable Rules (5 papers) Squishes (3 papers, including authors Haj Ross & Ivan Sag) Problems in variation (5 papers, including authors Trudgill, Fasold) Other studies ( 5 papers) Creoles (5 papers) Semantic Variation (1 paper, by Labov)

  4. Variable Rules (5 papers) • notable contributions by Wolfram, Bickerton, Anshen and two papers by members of the “Montreal contingent” • Henrietta J. Cedergren, “On the nature of variable constraints” • Gillian Sankoff, “Above and beyond phonology in variable rules”.

  5. Members of the Montréal contingentback home in the early 1970s Henrietta Cedergren Pierrette Thibault Picketing at Radio-Canada against its normative stance on Québécois French Street scene typical of the neighborhoods where we did our 1971 study of Montréal

  6. Members of the original Montréal crew 38 years later . . . preparing for NWAV Panel, 10/23/09 in Ottawa David Sankoff Henrietta Cedergren Gillian Sankoff Pierrette Thibault Suzanne Laberge

  7. Onward & upward with NWAVE: the first two decades Green highlighting: Publication of NWAV papers published in various series

  8. Conversation between G.S. and an anonymous graduate student, early 1990s[paraphrased from memory] Anonymous Student: “You guys have more or less discovered everything important already. There aren’t really very many new frontiers for us to explore” Gillian: “Hmmm. I don’t really think that’s the case. There are all kinds of issues beginning to be explored that we didn’t envisage 20 years ago.” So, what happened in the NEXT 20 years?

  9. Onward & upward with NWAV: the past two decades Yellow highlighting: Selected NWAV papers published in the Now online at: http://ling.upenn.edu/papers/pwpl.html

  10. Some substantial recent developments in the study of variation and change • Developments in multivariate analysis and use of hierarchical modeling • Perceptual dialectology • Reintegration of dialect geography and sociolinguistics • Journal of Dialect Geography (in the works for 2012; editors Preston & Labov) • Greater integration with historical syntax • Sociophonetics and automatization of analysis • Challenges posed by exemplar theory – it’s jazzed us up! • . . . and other incipient changes (“indicators”) too new to discern successfully in 2011. Let’s not declare a lack of new frontiers just yet!

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