Excited to be contributing to this new era of Asia-Pacific Language Variation as co-EIC!

Super happy to see our paper (w/ @riannawalcott.bsky.social) in Journal of Sociolinguistics: "‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’ 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New on APLV: Wilkinson Gonzales. Variation and change in Philippine languages Trends, challenges, and pathways forward. benjamins.com/catalog/aplv...

Sebastian Leal-Arenas is presenting on L2 Spanish acquisition of prosodic patterns for particular word orders. Do students improve with explicit teaching? #LSA2026

At 2:15 I'll be presenting work with my student Zichuan on the role of host region and home region on L2 English speakers from northern and southern China! #LSA2026

First in our session is Dima Smadi on phonetic attrition in L1 Arabic-L2 English. #LSA2026

First up in our session, Mingyeong Choi from Georgetown is talking about two types of questions in Korean! (For the second time in a row at LSA this year, the session chair has not turned up, so I am now ad hoc chairing.) #LSA2026

My student Wang Yao will be presenting our project on cuteness in Chinese state media at 10 AM in Galeries 4! #LSA2026

The panel this evening is Language and Meaning in the Balance, with John Baugh, Scott Kiesling, Kelly Wright, Lal Zimman, Tracey Weldon, Robert Henderson, and Wesley Leonard. #LSA2026

The #LSA2026 opening ceremony begins with a welcome from the Chitimacha tribe.

Next, Lim and Kang are presenting on JH vs z among Korean bilinguals! #LSA2026

Next, Gutierrez Topete and Lopez are presenting on Spanish-Yucatec Maya bilinguals and nasal depalatization! #LSA2026

In the first session of #LSA2026! Grace Wong and Charlotte Burnham of Stanford are presenting their work with Ariel Chan on the impact of language dominance on VOT in English Cantonese code-switching.

🚨 New OA article! What does it mean to have a "cute" voice? In their new paper "Clip Voice", Zichuan Yu & Rebecca Lurie Starr’s explore how vocal styles reproduce stereotypes of infantilized femininity in Chinese online culture. Read here: 👉

New paper with my student Zichuan! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Absolutely beautiful obituary for Bill Labov, describing a life rich in insights and in humanity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've got a new paper out with Shoba Bandi-Rao and colleagues on the evaluation of inter-turn silence in Singapore English! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Can ChatGPT reflect upon its own sociolinguistic behavior? Nope. For the past few days, ChatGPT has been responding to me in Singlish (based on a prompt from months ago that it has mysteriously decided to recall). But today, I asked it to analyze some rap lyrics, and something changed. 1/?

Last December @rlslinguistics.bsky.social and I visited @tsunglunone.bsky.social at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) and were interviewed by a linguistics student. Here's a summary! lingsights.tw/articles/61 #linguistics #sociolinguistics #academia #research #findings #language

Up next, when I walked into this panel Kewen asked if I could present my student Yunbo's study, so I'm going to try to wing it! The word of the year is indeed rawdogging... #LSA2025

NUS's Kewen Zheng is presenting on how ChatGPT can serve to increase writing anxiety among non-native speaker students. #LSA2025

At the oral histories panel! First up, Isaac Bleaman and Chaya Nove on Yiddish and the oral histories of Holocaust survivors. #LSA2025

Next, Emmett Jessee is presenting on trans identity and sibilant perception. #LSA2025

A plug for our NUS students: at 12pm in Salon B, Kewen Zheng will be talking about students' writing anxiety and ChatGPT use. Then, at 12:30, Yunbo Mei will be discussing language ideologies and market dynamics in China's English language teaching landscape. #LSA2025

Final day of #LSA2025! Here at the ADS session, first up is Bill Kretzschmar on salience and dialect features.

Adolfo Hermosillo and colleagues are presenting on intensifier variation in Salinas California, using data collected for the Voices of California project. #LSA2025

Lisa Sullivan is testing different levels of metalinguistic awareness of a set of variables: bag-raising, Canadian ay and ow raising, and ay monophthongization. #LSA2025

PraiseGod Aminu presents on variability in postvocalic /r/ in Nigerian English. #LSA2025

At the sociophonetics session, J Calder is discussing vowel space among nonbinary San Francisco drag queens. #LSA2025

Thanks to everyone for visiting our three posters! Please do come to my final talk on romance audio dramas, there will be cute fan art! #LSA2025

"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...

Thanks to everyone who came to my tilde talk with my student Wang Yao~~ #LSA2025

At the social media panel with a talk by Mark Winston Visona on tweets about policing and epistemic stance! #LSA2024

At the session honoring Bob Bayley, Dennis Preston and Sali Tagliamonte are sharing their fond memories of Bob. #LSA2025

Sali Tagliamonte and a crew of students are presenting on parallels in variation and change between UK youth and Canadian elders. #LSA2025

Next, Patricia Cukor-Avila and colleagues on copula variation and the contribution of social and linguistic factors. #LSA2025

Claire Henderson and colleagues find that spelling norms in Canada have actually shifted towards UK norms over time, unlike other aspects of language. #LSA2025

First up at ADS this morning, Jaime Benheim and colleagues examining lifespan change among the senators from Rhode Island. #LSA2025

During the Saturday 10:45 poster session, poster 1: do Singaporeans incorporate features of AAL when they rap? Work with Rachelle Chua! #LSA2025

Later on Saturday, how do voice actors change their pitch and voice quality when performing different character types in straight and gay romances in Chinese audio dramas? I'll be presenting this work with Yang Yanyu at 4:30 in Salon D. #LSA2025

Coming up on Saturday, first, what does it mean when Chinese speakers use ~ vs. ~~ in digital discourse? I'll be presenting work with Wang Yao on social evaluation of tilde at 9:30 in Salon B! #LSA2025

Hi everyone! I'm giving three talks and three posters at #LSA2025 - luckily, the first one on stops in Malaysian English will be given by my former student Le Xuan Chan, coming up at 3:30 in Salon B!

It's a bit of a trope to say "I took Spanish for 4 years and didn't learn anything", but on average people in US schools do attain some level of functional language proficiency! See this new ACTFL brief by by Koen van Gorp and @mattcoss.bsky.social #lingsky 🐦🐦 www.actfl.org/research/res...

Labov's obituary in the NYTimes: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

Bill Labov has passed away after a long and extraordinary life. The founder of variationist sociolinguistics and the academic adviser and grand-adviser to so many in our field. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, colleagues, and students today.

Thrilled to receive a copy of "Dialect Contact"! @rlslinguistics.bsky.social and I have a chapter in here based on my undergrad thesis, my first ever publication 🥹 Massive thanks to @jennycz.bsky.social and Victor Fernández-Mallat for the immense work that they put into editing this volume!

My paper with Alamelu Vankatachalam on singular 'they' in Singapore English! repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub...

New book on Singapore Sign Language aims to raise visibility of local signing www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ne...

Will be seeing everyone at LSA in Philly!

APLV Call for Papers: Special Issue on Multilingualism and Language Contact! More info on our Facebook page: https://buff.ly/3Xe4F48