New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), November 2024

Current UHM Linguistics undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and alumni met up at the 52nd New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) to present their research in Miami Beach, November 7-9, 2024. The presentations were as follows: 

Emma Breslow: Shmooze and Chutzpah: A Comparative Analysis of Lexical Variation Across Ethnoreligious Identities

Andrew Cheng, N. Ha’alilio Solomon, Maikalewa Keamoai-Koka, and Hunter Proctor: Vowel length and stress patterns among New Fluent Speakers of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian)

Andrew Cheng (et al.):  Ethnic orientation influences Infant-Directed Speech patterns in multilingual, multicultural households

James Grama (et al.): Evaluating traditionally “stable” variables in a creole: Variation and change in (th, dh) in Hawaiʻi Creole

James Grama (et al.): Sociolinguistically axiomatic?: Testing the relationship among linguistic, social and stylistic constraints

Michelle Kamigaki-Baron: Exploring the Social and Linguistic Connections between Pidgin and ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi

Carolyn Siegman: Investigating the malleability of heritage speaker phonology via convergence