Category: Stance

Rejoining stance

6/1/2024

I've recently rejoined work on the ATAROS project, which funded my dissertation. A graduating PhD student at the University of Washington, Sara Ng, has been leading related work on the prosodic interactions of information load (new/given info) and stance. Our mutual adviser, Richard Wright, gave several talks in France and Japan during his sabbatical this spring. We wrote a conference proceedings paper for one, and we're working on a journal article for next year.

Stance paper accepted!

10/17/2019

My last paper from the ATAROS project, "Prosodic features of stances in conversation," has been accepted to LabPhon.

CLiF: Corpus Linguistics Fest 2016

6/9/2016

Presented a poster on the ATAROS corpus at CLiF here at IU. Very interesting to see all different kinds of corpora mined for very different topics, ranging from recipes to subordinate clauses in Twitter to "Darwin's Semantic Voyage."

LSA in DC

1/11/2016

Had a great trip to Washington DC for the Linguistic Society of America 2016 annual meeting. Gave a talk on a meaty chunk of my dissertation, "Prosodic features of stance strength and polarity." Was in a great session and got to introduce some old friends to the ribald (for academics) American Dialect Society Word of the Year vote. Other highlights: Pat Keating's plenary on voice quality, Lauren Spradlin and Taylor Jones on 'totes' constructions, and Carmen Fought and Karen Eisenhauer on gendered compliments in Disney princess films. I added some sight-seeing to the trip, and the weather was unseasonably warm. Got to tour the White House, ride to the top of the Washington Monument, visit the newer monuments (haven't been since I was 14), a couple Smithsonians, the National Cathedral, and the zoo (pandas!).

Me and Madison

National Cathedral

View from Wash. Mon't.

ASA Jacksonville

11/7/2015

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.

NWAV Toronto

10/25/2015

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.

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