UGA Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students present at the 2018 American Dialect Society annual conference

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University of Georgia Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students presented at the 2018 American Dialect Society annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 4-7, 2018.

Joey Stanley, Dr. William Kretzschmar, Dr. Margaret Renwick, Rachel Olsen, and Michael Olsen: "The Gazetteer of Southern Vowels"

Joey Stanley and Kyle Vanderniet: "Consonantal variation in Utah English: What el[t]se is happening[k]?"

4th Annual Linguistics Conference at UGA

The 4th annual Linguistics Conference at UGA took place October 6-7 at the Miller Learning Center. The conference program featured over 30 presenters from colleges and universities in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin, Canada, and Brazil. Plenary events included talks by Dr. Susan Tamasi of Emory University and Dr.

Publications: Analyzing dialect variation in historical speech corpora

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Dr. Peggy Renwick and Rachel Miller Olsen have co-authored an article in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, using data from the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States. In the article, which is part of a special collection on Advancing Methods for Analyzing Dialect Variation, the authors analyze the acoustics of vowels by nine speakers from southeastern Georgia.