Back from a conference-cation in Vienna for ExApp (Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation).  I gave my talk "Style-shifting of prevelar merger more sensitive to setting than task" on Friday morning and saw several interesting talks on listeners' knowledge of regional dialect features and how this affects linguistic perceptions (e.g., Tyler Kendall, Cynthia Clopper, Rachael Tatman, Duna Gylfadottir, ​Katarzyna Alexander).  I really liked the calls made in two of the plenaries for combining data from the lab and "in the wild" (Jane Stuart-Smith) and integrating theories and data on production, perception, and attitudes (Stefanie Jannedy).  

Gave a talk on a big piece of my dissertation, "Prosodic features of stance acts," at the Acoustical Society of America Fall Meeting in Jacksonville, FL.  ASA is always interesting because it brings such diversity of methods, theories, and disciplinary perspectives - and that's just within Speech Communication.  (This time, I took a water taxi with a kidney stone ultrasound-blaster, roomed with a rhino soundscape specialist, and had dinner with bat-song experts.)  I especially enjoyed the sessions on sociophonetics and dialect variation.  On the weekend, I took a day trip to St. Augustine - lots of interesting history, and matching architecture. 

Headed home from New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 44: Intersections in Toronto.  So many good talks, it was hard to choose.  My talk "Exploring task and gender effects on stance-taking in a collaborative conversational corpus" went well.  The atmosphere is so collegial -- I really feel at home with the NWAV crowd.  And to top it off, the venue (Hart House) and the U Toronto campus are beautiful, and the weather was so nice -- I saw all the interesting old architecture and parks I could've asked for, just walking around.