(Revised) Schedule

Please note revisions to Sunday and Saturday afternoon sessions as of April 19, 2007:


Saturday, May 5

8:30-9:15 Registration

Session 1: Phonological Variation

9:30 Vowel Dispersion as a Determinant of which Sex Leads a Vowel Change
Kevin Heffernan (University of Toronto)

10:00 Foreign /a/ words in Canadian English: Lexical Diffusion in Progress
Charles Boberg (McGill University)

10:30 Second dialect acquisition: the case of /r/
Christine Berger (University of Toronto)

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

Session 2: Ontario English

11:30 Frequency and Lexical Effects in Variation: (t/d)-deletion in Toronto English
James A. Walker (York University)

Noon More Than Meets the Eye: /æ/-retraction in Toronto English
Lidia Jarmasz (University of Toronto)

12:30 Is Uptalk on the Rise? Rising Intonation in Ontario English
Vanessa Shokeir (University of Toronto)

1:00-2:30 Lunch

Session 3: Tense and Aspect

2:30 The Future Tense in Four Franco-Ontarian Communities
Rick Grimm (University of Alberta)

3:00 Present Temporal Reference and Identity in Newfoundland English
Gerard van Herk, Becky Childs & Jennifer Thorburn
(Memorial University of Newfoundland)

3:30 Perfectly Identical? Variation in the Perfect System of English
Cathleen Waters (University of Toronto)

4:00-4:30 Coffee break

Session 4: Language Change

4:30 Spreading the Word?: The Role of Media in Transmitting Change
Nathalie Dion & Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa)

5:00 The Progress of Change through Apparent and Real Time
Martine Leroux (University of Ottawa)

5:30 On for Je, On for Nous: A Sociohistorical Analysis of Variation and Change in First Person Plural Pronominal Usage in French
Ruth King, Raymond Mougeon & France Martineau
(York University, York University and University of Ottawa)

Evening
Party at Sali Tagliamonte’s house
(food by Ron Smyth)


Sunday, May 6

Session 5: The Role of Media, Linguistic Norms and Informal Exposure

10:00 Preserving the Standard: The Survival of pas along with point in Baie Sainte-Marie Acadian French
Philip Comeau (York University)

10:30 Speaker Orientation to Local Linguistic Norms: Interdental Fricatives in Newfoundland English
Becky Childs, Jennifer Thorburn & Gerard van Herk
(Memorial University of Newfoundland)

11:00 Expressing Necessity in L2 French: The Role of Informal Exposure
Allison Lealess (University of Ottawa)

11:30-noon Coffee break

Plenary

12:00 It isn't the same anymore, eh? Toronto English entering the 21st century
Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto)

1:30-3:30 Wrap-up lunch @ Bar Mercurio