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Methods in Dialectology XV: Detailed schedule

Monday, August 11

9:00 - 10:45 Registration and coffee
10:45 - 11:00 Opening:
John Nerbonne, Nanna Haug Hilton, Charlotte Gooskens and Bob de Jonge (Geertsemazaal)
11:00 - 12:00 Plenary talk I: Frans Gregersen - A matter of scale only? [abstract]
((Geertsemazaal - Chair: Charlotte Gooskens) )
Session Variation and synthesis of sounds
(Offerhauszaal - Chair: Charlotte Gooskens)
Variation in the lexicon
(Geertsemazaal - Gerald van Herk)
Standards and convergence/divergence
(Zernikezaal - Chair: Bob de Jonge)
Special session: Syntax across borders
(Van der Leeuwzaal - Organisers: Ellen Brandner & Alexandra Lenz)
12:00 - 12:30 Gradience, allophony, and the Southern shift trigger [abstract]
Aaron Dinkin & Robin Dodsworth
Lexical and spatial variation as perceived by young Tuat Arabic speakers [abstract]
Bachir Bouhania
Setting the standard: Are teachers the best speakers of Standard Dutch? [abstract]
Anne-Sophie Ghyselen & Steven Delarue
Borderline cases of syntactic variation [abstract]
Ellen Brandner
12:30 - 13:00 Emergence and evolution in computer simulation of speech [abstract]
William Kretzschmar & Ilka Juuso
Accessing large dialect databases on RADAR [abstract]
Clive Upton & Martijn Wieling
Distance in space: Dialects and standard Galician [abstract]
Xulio Sousa
Are confessional and administrative borders relevant to the areal dynamics of syntactical variants? Swiss German dialects under observation [abstract]
Claudia Bucheli Berger
13:00 - 13:30 Lexical variation in American English: A web-based dialect survey [abstract]
Jack Grieve, Costanza Asnaghi & Tom Ruette
A century of linguistic change in progress - The diffusion of new dialect forms in Tsuruoka [abstract]
Fumio Inoue
Borders in Continental West Germanic dialect syntax: Evidence from the Wenker surveys [abstract]
Jürg Fleischer
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)
Session Multiethnic environments
(Offerhauszaal - Chair: Aaron Dinkin)
Language change and the lexicon
(Geertsemazaal - Chair: Anja Schüppert)
Methodologies
(Zernikezaal - Chair: Anne-Sophie Ghyselen)
Special session: Syntax across borders
(Van der Leeuwzaal)
14:30 - 15:00 Study of the internationalisation of loanword's phonemes: Based on the results of recorded sound research nationwide [abstract]
Akemi Yamashita
A comparison of three digital systems for dialect geography [abstract]
Sheila Embleton, Dorin Uritescu & Eric S Wheeler
On the syntactic dynamics of a transboundary dialect group [abstract]
Alexandra Lenz
15:00 - 15:30 Ethnic correlates of morphosyntactic variation: Come/came variation in London, U.K. [abstract]
Stephen Levey, Sue Fox & Laura Kastronic
English influence on written standard Italian: A new concept of regional dialect [abstract]
Costanza Asnaghi
Fuzzy dialect areas and prototype theory discovering latent structures in geolinguistic variation [abstract]
Simon Pickl
Cluster creepers: A comparison between German and Dutch dialects [abstract]
Oliver Schallert & Johanna Schwalm
15:30 - 16:00 "I sound Irish, like": Implications of immigration for the future of Northern Irish English [abstract]
Nicholas S Roberts & Karen Corrigan
Lexical changes in dialect speech [abstract]
Vilja Oja & Iris Metsmägi
Measuring dialect shift with traditional tools and modern technologies [abstract]
Marino Fernandes, Michael Routhier & Maya Ravindranath
Extraposition in German dialects and regiolects [abstract]
Shannon Dubenion-Smith
16:00 - 16:30 "Sometimes it gets really intense": Refining the variable context of adjectival intensificatio [abstract]
Gerard van Herk & Jennifer Thorburn
Ethnographic methods at field laboratory: The vowel system of a low prestige geographical dialect in the South of Greece [abstract]
Dimitris Papazachariou, Maria Giakoumelou, Maria Baltatzani, Evia Kainada & Katerina Nicolaidis
What a speaker of a language without verb cluster interruptions knows about verb cluster interruptions [abstract]
Lotte Hendriks
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)
17:00 - 18:00 Plenary talk II: Mark Liberman - The dialectology of the future [abstract]
(Offerhauszaal - Chair: Martijn Wieling)
18:45 Welcome reception in the Academy building (Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)

Tuesday, August 12

9:00 - 10:00 Plenary talk III: Naomi Nagy - Heritage languages as new languages [abstract]
(Geertsemazaal - Chair: Nanna Haug Hilton)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)
Session Real and apparent time
(Room A2 - Chair: Nanna Haug Hilton)
Dialectometry
(Room A7 - Chair: Simonetta Montemagni)
Special session: Bridging the gap between ELF and receptive multilingualism
(Room A8 - Organiser: Jelena Golubovic)
Special session: Of vowels and 'systems': New methods for the study of vocalic variation
(Heymanszaal - Organisers: Anne Fabricius & Dominic Watt)
Workshop: Gabmap tutorial
(University Library: Rooms 104 & 110) (Organisers: Therese Leinonen & Wilbert Heeringa)
10:30 - 11:00 Mixing real and apparent time data with population movement: A case study from Somerset [abstract]
Victoria Garnett
Automation and sociophonetics [abstract]
Josef Fruehwald
Gabmap tutorial [abstract]
Therese Leinonen & Wilbert Heeringa
11:00 - 11:30 Intra-speaker variation and change [abstract]
Torben Juel Jensen, Marie Maegaard & Nicolai Pharao
Dialectometry in Brittany, a new application of the Damereau-Levenshtein algorithm to the Breton speaking area [abstract]
Guylaine Brun-Trigaud , Tanguy Solliec & Jean Le Dû
I don't understand this ugly language! – On the link between language attitudes and intelligibility [abstract]
Femke Swarte & Charlotte Gooskens
On the impact of noise on vowel formant measures [abstract]
Tamara Rathcke & Jane Stuart-Smith
WORKSHOP continued
11:30 - 12:00 Problems of a real-time sociolinguistic project: Lessons from the Okazaki Survey on Honorifics [abstract]
Kenjiro Matsuda
Timespan comparison of dialectal distributions [abstract]
Onishi Takuichiro
Mutual intelligibility in the Slavic language area measured by cloze test [abstract]
Jelena Golubovic & Charlotte Gooskens
Measurement error and stability in vowel formant extraction: A simulation experiment [abstract]
Tyler Kendall & Charlotte Vaughn
WORKSHOP continued
12:00 - 12:30 Tracing real and apparent time language changes: Linguistic maps and GIS [abstract]
Chitsuko Fukushima
Diatech+: Tool for doing dialectometry easier  [abstract]
Gotzon Aurrekoetxea, Karmele Fernandez, Jesus Rubio, Gotzon Santander & Iker Usobiaga
You understand more than you think: Testing mutual intelligibility within the Romance language family using the picture task [abstract]
Stefanie Voigt & Charlotte Gooskens
Reconceptualizing the vowel space [abstract]
Robert A. Fox & Ewa Jacewicz
WORKSHOP continued
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)
13:30 - 14:30 Poster Session with Slam Session
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)
POSTER CONTRIBUTIONS Dialects in the Arabian Gulf: A social class or region? - A sociolinguistic perspective [abstract]
Munirah Alajlan
Decoding strategies in the Swedish-German word understanding [abstract]
Julia Bischoffberger
Investigating variation in a bilingual context: evidence from Basque reflexives [abstract]
Irantzu Epelde
Dialectal variation and perceptual dialectology: a case of study in the Western Piedmont (Italy). [abstract]
Silvia Gally
Speaking with an accent: the current status of the /o:/ and /e:/ in Twents [abstract]
Merel Heerink
POSTER CONTRIBUTIONS Code-switching in the Anglophone community in Japan [abstract]
Keiko Hirano
The subjective and objective perception of the German-Dutch boundary as a dialect border [abstract]
Line-Marie Hohenstein
Towards understanding the regional distribution of acoustic features from speech [abstract]
Thomas Kisler & Florian Schiel
Verbal inflection patterns in Frisian and Dutch [abstract]
Remco Knooihuizen, Oscar Strik & Gerbrich de Jong
Imitation as a method of measuring salience and borrowing [abstract]
Stephanie Leser & Lea Schäfer
POSTER CONTRIBUTIONS "I don't like this country near so well as old Ireland": Μigration as a prism for exploring ethnolinguistic vitality [abstract]
Adam J. Mearns & Karen Corrigan
The annotation of causative constructions in a dialectal corpus [abstract]
Sandra Pereira
Perceptions of Vaasa Swedish: inside and outside the town [abstract]
Viveca Rabb
Variation and change in the Russian dialect of Varzuga: a case study based on recordings from three [abstract]
Margje Post
Jewish languages in German fiction (from the 16th century to present) [abstract]
Lea Schäfer
POSTER CONTRIBUTIONS Dialects @ the cloud - 5 ways to improve dialectal lexicography by digital humanities and vice versa [abstract]
Eveline Wandl-Vogt
Validating and using the PMI-based Levenshtein distance as a measure of foreign accent strength [abstract]
Martijn Wieling
Session Dialects
(Room A2 - Chair: Torben Juel Jensen)
Dialectometry
(Room A7 - Chair: Onishi Takuichiro)
Special session: Bridging the gap between ELF and receptive multilingualism
(Room A8)
Special session: Of vowels and 'systems': New methods for the study of vocalic variation
(Heymanzaal)
Workshop: Gabmap tutorial
(University Library: Rooms 104 & 110)
14:30 - 15:00 Creating the Chinese online dialect Atlas [abstract]
Robert Sanders & Eric Wheeler
Tracking linguistic and extra-linguistic features underlying lexical variation patterns [abstract]
Simonetta Montemagni & Martijn Wieling
Standardizing functional testing of mutual intelligibility in Arabic dialectology: Methods and tools  [abstract]
Slavomír Čéplö
Naïve categorization of American English vowels [abstract]
Douglas S. Bigham
WORKSHOP continued
15:00 - 15:30 Variation in openly used person constructions in Border Karelian dialects [abstract]
Milla Uusitupa
The impact of phonetic narrowness on the dialectometry of Hungarian [abstract]
Fruzsina Sára Vargha 
More intelligible than English? Investigating comprehension of a related language compared to English used as a lingua franca [abstract]
Kristy James, Stefan Bulatovic, Anja Schüppert & Charlotte Gooskens
Potential pitfalls when choosing to normalise [abstract]
Nicholas Flynn
WORKSHOP continued
15:30 - 16:00 The future in a Continental French dialect: Polarity versus temporal distance [abstract]
Philip Comeau & Anne-Jose Villeneuve
Disentangling a non-standard language corpus by steering visualizations to answer questions [abstract]
Eveline Wandl-Vogt & Roberto Theron
Uniformity versus diversity: evaluating the position of English as a lingua franca in interlingual communication [abstract]
Linda van Heeswijk, Stefan Bulatovic, Kristy James, Femke Swarte, Jelena Golubovic, Stefanie Voigt, Anja Schüppert & Charlotte Gooskens
Discussion:
Discussant: Roeland van Hout
WORKSHOP continued
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)
Session Variation and change in morpho-syntax
(Room A2 - Chair: Eva Juarros-Daussa)
The classroom: As setting and instrument
(Room A7 - Chair: Daniel Ezra Johnson)
Special session: Bridging the gap between ELF and receptive multilingualism
(Room A8)
Special session: Of vowels and 'systems': New methods for the study of vocalic variation
(Heymanszaal)
Workshop: Gabmap tutorial
(University Library: Rooms 104 & 110)
16:30 - 17:00 Value in the margins: Clitic placement in Cypriot Greek [abstract]
Panayiotis Pappas
Between monolingual policy and multilingual classrooms: Mapping ideological frameworks of Flemish teachers [abstract]
Steven Delarue
Linguistic entrainment in English as a lingua franca and lingua receptiva dialogue between speakers of German and Dutch [abstract]
Gerda J. Blees & Jan D. ten Thije
Discussion: Roeland van Hout WORKSHOP continued
17:00 - 17:30 Investigating language landscapes: Variation in verb cluster interruption [abstract]
Lotte Hendriks
Undergraduate-conducted surveys: Balancing learning and data collection [abstract]
Gerard van Herk, Paul DeDecker & Jennifer Thorburn
Discussion Jelena Golubovic WORKSHOP continued
17:30 - 18:00 Exploring global and local patterns of the correlation of geographic distances with morpho-syntactic variation in Swiss German dialects [abstract]
Péter Jeszenszky, Philipp Stoeckle & Robert Weibel
Crowdsourcing dialectology in the undergraduate classroom [abstract]
Laurel MacKenzie, George Bailey & Danielle Turton
WORKSHOP continued

Wednesday, August 13

Session Variation and children or adolescents
(Room A2 - Chair: Robert Sanders)
Sound change
(Room A7 - Chair: Dirk Geeraerts)
Perception and attitudes
(Room A8 - Chair: Anja Schüppert)
Structural convergence in European minority languages
(Room A12 - Chair: Nanna Haug Hilton)
Workshop: Integrating perceptual dialectology and sociolinguistics with geographic information systems
(Heymanszaal - Organisers: Lisa Jeon, Patricia Cukor-Avila, Chris Montgomery & Patricia Rektor)
9:00 - 9:30 Social networks and school demographics in longitudinal adolescent data [abstract]
Charlie Farrington
Attitudes to varieties of Russian speech among young Russians [abstract]
Benedikte Fjellanger Vardøy
Using GIS and R to Investigate Factors that Influence Dialect Perceptions: A Case Study from South Korea [abstract]
Lisa Jeon
9:30 - 10:00 Where are we (heading)? A sociolinguistic ethnography of pupils' speech in Flanders [abstract]
Inge Van Lancker
Cross-regional differences in the perception and production of a sound change in progress [abstract]
Anne-France Pinget, Rene Kager & Hans van de Velde
Border Karelian recognition test [abstract]
Marjatta Palander & Helka Riionheimo
Structural convergence in minority languages in Europe [abstract]
Anne-José Villeneuve & Nanna Haug Hilton
From overhead transparencies to GIS-produced composite maps: A methodological case study from Great Britain [abstract]
Chris Montgomery
10:00 - 10:30 Testing speech perception on the field: Mid back vowels in Girona Catalan [abstract]
Eva Bosch Roura
The future of Welsh dialects? The effects of societal changes on (r) variation in Northern Welsh [abstract]
Jonathan Morris
WORKSHOP continued
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)
Session Syntactic variation and change
(Room A2 - Chair: Craig Sailor)
Change in time
(Room A7 - Chair: Bob de Jonge)
Borders
(Room A8 - Chair: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi)
Dialect change
(Room A12 - Chair: Anne-José Villeneuve)
Workshop: Integrating perceptual dialectology and sociolinguistics with geographic information systems
(Heymanszaal)
11:00 - 11:30 The distribution of aggregated syntactic construction types compared with other linguistic levels - A dialectometrical analysis of Swiss German dialects [abstract]
Sandra Kellerhals, Yves Scherrer, Elvira Glaser & Robert Weibel
The Northern subject rule in Northern and Midlands Middle English dialects: be and other verbs [abstract]
Nynke de Haas
Phonological variation and linguistic ideologies in the Upper Rhine area [abstract]
Julia Breuninger & Martin Pfeiffer
Stabilization of Flemish tussentaal: The style-shifting behavior in West-Flanders as a test case   [abstract]
Anne-Sophie Ghyselen
WORKSHOP continued
11:30 - 12:00 Two-dimensional variation in Swiss German morphosyntax [abstract]
Philip Stöckle & Peter Jeszenszky
Dialect contact and the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French [abstract]
Philip Comeau, Ruth King & Carmen LeBlanc
Linguistic identity in the border of Ourense with Portugal [abstract]
Soraya Suárez Quintas & Irene Santos Raña
Visualizing dialect change as such; factoring out the role of the standard language [abstract]
Wilbert Heeringa & Frans Hiskens
WORKSHOP continued
12:00 - 12:30 A study on data compilation methods in Catalan syntax variation [abstract]
Ares Llop
Pronominal boundaries between the Südfränkisch and Kleverland dialect areas in Germany and the Netherlands [abstract]
Frens Bakker & Roeland van Hout
The sociolinguistics of back vowel fronting in Manchester English [abstract]
Maciej Baranowski
WORKSHOP continued
12:30 Lunch
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal) - Excursions

Thursday, August 14

9:00 - 10:00 Plenary talk IV: Brigitte Pakendorf - Dialectal variation and population genetics in Siberia [abstract]
( Geertsemazaal - Chair: John Nerbonne))
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
Session Dialectology and syntax
(Room A2 - Chair: Craig Sailor)
Special session: Instrumental articulatory phonetics and dialectological fieldwork. Strange bedfellows?
(Room A7 - Organisers: Etske Ooijevaar, Ben Hermans, Frans Hinskens, Marc van Oostendorp & Patrycja Strycharczuk)
Special session: Panel studies: Challenges, food for thought and ways forward
(Room A8 - Organisers: Suzanne Wagner & Isabelle Buchstaller)
Special session: Dynamics of dialectal change in French
(Room A12 - Organiser: Marie-Hélène Côté)
Special session: Frontiers of language variation
(Heymanszaal - Organisers: John Nerbonne, Peter Auer, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman)
10:30 - 11:00 Tense-aspect-evidential differences between Mongolian dialects [abstract]
Benjamin Brosig
Temporal dynamics of /æ/ tensing in North American English: An ultrasound study [abstract]
Christopher Carignan, Jeff Mielke & Robin Dodsworth
Comparing speech samples: On the challenge of comparability in panel studies of language change in real time [abstract]
Frans Gregersen, Torben Juel Jensen, Marie Maegaard & Nicolai Pharao
Koinéisation et standardisation en francophonie [abstract]
André Thibault
Corpus linguistics meets culturonomics. A longitudinal distributional semantic analysis of lexical variation in immigration discourse [abstract]
Kris Heylen & Dirk Speelman
11:00 - 11:30 Measuring correlations in dialect Dutch verb clusters [abstract]
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Temporal dynamics of /æ/ tensing in North American English: An ultrasound study Christopher Carignan, Jeff Mielke & Robin Dodsworth Data sets from independent sources [abstract]
Christopher Cieri & Malcah Yaeger-Dror
Does regional variation exist? From acoustic realities to perceptual representations [abstract]
Alice Bardiaux
What can large monolingual corpora tell us about dialect/standard code-switching? [abstract]
Nikolay Khakimov
11:30 - 12:00 The Relationship between case, word order and referential scales in German dialects  [abstract]
Simon Kasper
/l/-darkening in varieties of English: A dialectological approach to articulatory variation [abstract]
Danielle Turton
The interaction of age and interview context in sociolinguistic fieldwork [abstract]
Patricia Cukor-Avila & Guy Bailey
French in Switzerland, toward a standardization? [abstract]
Isabelle Racine
On the problem of field worker isoglosses [abstract]
Andrea Mathussek
12:00 - 12:30 Exploring the borders of analyticity and syntheticity [abstract]
Kristel Uiboaed & Maarja-Liisa Pilvik
/l/-darkening in varieties of English: A dialectological approach to articulatory variation
Danielle Turton
What makes a panel study work? Researcher and participant in real time [abstract]
Sali Tagliamonte & Suzanne Evans Wagner
Prosodic convergences and divergences in African varieties of French: Some explanatory hypotheses [abstract]
Gelase Nimbona
On the use of vector models in aggregate-level studies of semasiological variation [abstract]
Dirk Speelman, Kris Heylen & Dirk Geeraerts
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal) - Methods Standing Committee meeting
(Room: A2 - Chair: Karen Corrigan)
Session Special session: Instrumental articulatory phonetics and dialectological fieldwork. Strange bedfellows?
(Room A7)
Special session: Panel studies: Challenges, food for thought and ways forward
(Room A8)
Special session: Dynamics of dialectal change in French
(Room A12)
Special session: Frontiers of language variation
(Heymanszaal)
13:30 - 14:00 Using ultrasound tongue imaging to study variation in the GOOSE vowel across accents of English [abstract]
Eleanor Lawson & Lydia Mills
Stylistic variation in panel studies of change in real time [abstract]
John Rickford
Standardisation et nivèlement au Québec [abstract]
Marie-Hélène Côté
Corpus-based dialectometry: Why and how [abstract]
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi & Christoph Wolk
14:00 - 14:30 Using ultrasound tongue imaging to study variation in the GOOSE vowel across accents of English
Eleanor Lawson & Lydia Mills
On the utility of composite indices in longitudinal language study [abstract]
Janneke Van Hofwegen & Walt Wolfram
The rhotic and its adjacent vowels: Complex trajectories in Laurentian French [abstract]
Hugo Saint-Amant Lamy
What the tongue can tell us about dialects [abstract]
Martijn Wieling
14:30 - 15:00 The devil is in the articulatory detail: Phonological and dialectological implications of Dutch /r/ variation [abstract]
Koen Sebregts
Finding our voice in longitudinal sociophonetic analysis [abstract]
Mary Kohn & Charlie Farrington
Louisiana French: French Americas' linguistic Gumbo [abstract]
Luc Baronian
Core vocabulary, borrowability, and entrenchment. A usage-based onomasiological approach [abstract]
Eline Zenner
15:00 - 15:30 The devil is in the articulatory detail: Phonological and dialectological implications of Dutch /r/ variation
Koen Sebregts
The influence of age on estimating sound change acoustically from longitudinal data [abstract]
Jonathan Harrington & Ulrich Reubold
Convergence, divergence and the recent history of Acadian French [abstract]
Ruth King
Discussion [abstract]
John Nerbonne, Peter Auer & Dirk Geeraerts (Chair: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)
Session Special session: Instrumental articulatory phonetics and dialectological fieldwork. Strange bedfellows?
(Room A7)
Special session: Panel studies: Challenges, food for thought and ways forward
(Room A8)
Special session: Dynamics of dialectal change in French
(Room A12)
Special session: Frontiers of language variation
(Heymanszaal)
16:00 - 16:30 Sibilants in Italian/Tyrolean bilingual speakers [abstract]
Lorenzo Spreafico
Discussion
Suzanne Evans Wagner & Isabelle Buchstaller
Discussion Discussion
John Nerbonne, Peter Auer & Dirk Geeraerts (Chair: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi)
16:30 - 17:00 Sibilants in Italian/Tyrolean bilingual speakers
Lorenzo Spreafico
Discussion
Suzanne Evans Wagner & Isabelle Buchstaller
Discussion
18:30 Prize awards, Reception & Dinner
(Plaza Danza)

Friday, August 15

Session Sound change
(Room A2 - Chair: Remco Knooihuizen)
Loss of linguistic variants
(Room A7 - Chair: Jos Swaneberg)
Changes in the lexicon
(Room A8 - Chair: Daniel Ezra Johnson)
Special session: Open Acces Publishing (Martin Haspelmath)
(Room A12 - Chair: John Nerbonne)
Dialectology
(Heymanszaal - Chair: Therese Leinonen)
9:00 - 9:30 Linguistic and social constraints on consonantal variation in Manchester English [abstract]
Maciej Baranowski & Danielle Turton
A corpus-based investigation of dialect levelling in Laurentian French [abstract]
Marie-Hélène Côté & Hugo Saint-Amant Lamy
The Finnic "itse" as a non-inflecting adverb or an emphatic word [abstract]
Maria Kok
Open Access Publishing [abstract]
Martin Haspelmath
Theatre for informants: A tool for obtaining proper data [abstract]
Victor Lara Bermejo
9:30 - 10:00 Acoustic properties and regional variation of Saterland Frisian vowels [abstract]
Heike Schoormann, Jörg Peters & Wilbert Heeringa
Dialect levelling and the change of semiotic space [abstract]
Ivana Skevin
SPECIAL SESSION continued Bottom-up dialectometry using the GeoLing Package [abstract]
Simon Pröll, Simon Pickl, Aaron Spettl, Stephan Elspaß, Werner König & Volker Schmidt
10:00 - 10:30 Islanders or mainlanders? The Canadian shift in the middle class of urban St. John's, NL  [abstract]
Matthias Hofmann
SPECIAL SESSION continued Adnominal and pronominal agreement with neuter nouns in Belgian Dutch [abstract]
Karlien Franco & Dirk Geeraerts
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)
Session Perceptual dialectology
(Room A2 - Chair: Wilbert Heeringa)
Syntactic variation
(Room A7 - Chair: Jan Wouter Zwart)
Corpus creation - Corpus studies
(Room A8 - Chair: Martijn Wieling)
Sound change
(Heymanszaal - Chair: Maciej Baranowski)
11:00 - 11:30 Perception: What have we learned? [abstract]
Dennis Preston
Corpus-based dialect syntax: variation and frequency of partitive subjects in Estonian dialects  [abstract]
Liina Lindström
Linguistic features in the "Buried Issei Japanese Voice" in the Americas [abstract]
Yoshiyuki Asahi
Raising from the past: Using digitized sound archives to inform unsolved mysteries in dialectology [abstract]
Sandra Clarke & Paul De Decker
11:30 - 12:00 Auditory affective priming: Exploring new methods to measure attitudes to language varieties [abstract]
Laura Rosseel, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman
Dialect syntax beyond a corpus: A case study in European Portuguese [abstract]
Carrilho Ernestina & Sandra Pereira
Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula: Archival materials and web facsimiles to online cartography [abstract]
David Heap
On context-related variation of hyper-local variants: /h/ insertion in earlier Tristan da Cunha Engl [abstract]
Daniel Schreier
12:00 - 12:30 Mapping the perception of linguistic form: Dialectometry with perception data [abstract]
Tyler Kendall & Valerie Fridland
Lexical frequency and syntactic variation: Evidence from U.S. and peninsular Spanish [abstract]
Robert Bayley, Cory Holland & Kristen Greer
The future of dialect data - Representation and analysis [abstract]
Jelena Prokic, Michael Cysouw & Johann-Mattis List
Tonal variation in Kagoshima Japanese and factors of language change [abstract]
Ichiro Ota, Hitoshi Nikaido & Akira Utsugi
12:30 - 13:00 How frequent is frequent and why does it matter? Lexical frequency effects on a regular sound change [abstract]
Matthias Hofmann & Susanne Wagner 
Developing linguistic Atlas of Japan database and advancing analysis of geographical distributions [abstract]
Yasuo Kumagai
Global demise of a venerable change in progress [abstract]
Jack Chambers
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)
Session Corpus studies
(Room A8 - chair: Susanne Wagner)
New media
(Heymanszaal - Chair: Femke Swarte)
14:00 - 14:30 A demonstration of a dialectal database  [abstract]
Raïssa Gillier & João Saramago
Greetings from Braboneger. Linguistic variation in digital communication [abstract]
Jos Swanenberg
14:30 - 15:00 Digitizing the linguistic atlas of German-speaking Switzerland  [abstract]
Yves Scherrer & Sandra Kellerhals
How two Catalan dialects coexist in the same areas. An analysis of the use and distribution of some lexical formsin twitter [abstract]
Maria-Pilar Perea & Antonio Ruiz-Tinoco
15:00 - 15:30 Spatial and geostatistical analysis for regional dialectology [abstract]
Jack Grieve
The user, the switch, and the SMS: Reported and observed code-switching behaviour in CMC [abstract]
Cedric Krummes, Claudia Buscher & Beat Siebenhaar
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
(Spiegelzaal & Bruinzaal)
16:00 - 18:00 Plenary talk V: Jacob Eisenstein - Dialect variation in online social media [abstract]
(Geertsemazaal - Chair: Bob de Jonge)
Closing