Is anyone else noticing the avatar that’s just running laps around the room at the #NWAV49 Talking Black panel?

I'm so pleased to announce the ahead-of-print publication of our special issue of Linguistics Vanguard: COVID-era sociolinguistics. The collection includes papers from 4 projects conducting slx research during COVID, and 1 "long view" wrap up paper 🧵 degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Has anyone studied this use of ‘must’ve’ in narratives in MLE? I feel sure I’ve read a paper on this, but can’t find it for the life of me. (The transcript is from a Radio 4 piece about violence among British girls which I think I got from Jenny - ta!)

Interested in regional variation and change in UK dialects? 💬 Enjoy looking at pretty maps? 🗺️ If you answered yes to either, check out our new open access paper in the Journal of Linguistic Geography: doi.org/10.1017/jlg.20…🔓 (with Laurel MacKenzie and Danielle Turton) 🧵1/8

Hi NWAV 50, I'm wondering about plenary times: the Plenaries page on your website gives them all as 6-7:30, but times on the Oxford Abs program differ. I assume we go by the program?

Surprising non-standard spelling in the New Yorker — is “daub” traditionally in the THOUGHT class? Evidence of cot/caught merger on the part of the author (and copy editor)?

Not only a linguistic name, but they got the IPA right! 👏 @wesleyjsleong

Dreamed I was grading a student paper that was a lifespan study of Clarence Thomas, and right before I woke up, Dream Me was writing a comment on the PDF that said “he famously doesn’t talk, so how did you get enough data?” 🤔