My latest paper on the bag-beg-vague merger in the Pacific Northwest has been accepted to the Journal of Phonetics.  The title explains: Production and perception of prevelar merger: Two-dimensional comparisons using Pillai scores and confusion matrices. I've been considering ways to compare the two types of data for a long time, so I'm very pleased with this one. Special thanks to Santiago Barreda for the direction on confusion matrices (and bootstrapping confidence intervals on stats that don't normally provide things like p-values). 

I taught a full-day minicourse/workshop at the Linguistic Society of America conference in Denver last week. A good group of grad students and faculty attended; we walked through various methods of remote sociophonetic data collection and discussed their really interesting project ideas. My co-author Sara Loss also gave a talk on our project about supporting better communication between undergrads and international students, TAs, and faculty. It was great to see so many old friends and colleagues, and the American Dialect Society Word of the Year was quite amusing this year!