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Coordinators: Lars Hinrichs, Barbara E. Bullock, A. Jacqueline Toribio Parlin Hall, Campus Mail B5000 78712 • (512) 983-6242

FALL 2011 SCHEDULE

9/13 Reading: Bullock, Hinrichs & Toribio (submitted)

9/20 Lost and found in the Dominican Republic: an analysis of hypercorrect [s] (Barbara Bullock, Jacqueline Toribio, Mark Amengual)

9/27 Workshop: Video in research on language variation
How to film: some basics of video recording and editing, and
resources available at UT (Lars Hinrichs)
What to film: types of video data in sociolinguistic research
(Carl Blyth)
What to do with film: issues in video transcription and analysis
(Chiho Sunakawa)

10/04 The GOOSE Vowel in East Austin
(Kate Shaw Points)

10/11 Workshop: Using rbrul in quantitative research on language variation
(Lars Hinrichs)

10/18 UT Resources:
The CILLA Archives (Nora England)
Using archival data for research (Brandon Baird)

10/25 Language contact and language ideologies in German hip hop
(Axel Bohmann)

11/01 Linguistic variation in literary dystopias
(Sandrine Sorlin)

11/08 Canadian French-English language contact in Florida
(Jenna Nichols)

11/15 A framework for the sociolinguistic study of written code-switching
in asynchronous computer-mediated discourse
(Lars Hinrichs)

11/29 “Lassma Deutsch reden:” A description of Kiezdeutsch
(David Hünlich)


Dynamics of Language Contact and Variation is a research group for faculty and students. We meet several times each semester to discuss current work and professional news in sociolinguistics. Tuesdays, 5-6:30pm, Mezes 2.122.
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