Sali A. Tagliamonte

University of Toronto

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Since 2002, the corpora that I and my assistants have collected have been used in an extensive range of research produced by graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and recent alumni:

forthcoming

(in press). Sali A. Tagliamonte and Jennifer Smith. Obviously undergoing change: Adverbs of evidentiality in the UK and Canada over 100 years. Language Variation and Change.

(in press). Bridget L. Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte. He come out and give me a beer but he never seen the bear: Vernacular preterites in Ontario Dialects. English World-Wide.

(to appear). Timothy Gadanidis, Nicole Hildebrand-Edgar, Angelika Kiss, Lex Konnelly, Katharina Pabst, Lisa Schlegl, Pocholo Umbal and Sali A. Tagliamonte. A protocol for coding stance based on insights from theoretical linguistics. Language in Society.

(to appear). Karlien Franco and Sali A. Tagliamonte. New -way(s) with -ward(s): lexicalization, splitting and sociolinguistic patterns. Language Variation and Change.

(to appear). Derek Denis, Bridget L. Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Ontario English: Loyalists and beyond. In Natalie Schilling, Derek Denis and Raymond Hickey (eds.), New Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume V: English in North America and the Caribbean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

(to appear). Bridget L. Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Urban-Rural Dimensions to Variable -Body/-One: The Case of Ontario, Canada. In Arne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler, Nina Kleczkowski and Georg Oberdorfer (eds.), Urban Matters. Current Approaches of International Sociolinguistic Research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(to appear). Sali A. Tagliamonte and Alexandra D'Arcy. That beyond convention: The interface of syntax, social structure, and discourse. In James A. Walker, Karen Beaman, Isabelle Buchstaller, Sue Fox, and Stephen Levey (eds.), Advancing socio-grammatical variation and change.

2021

2021. Lisa Schlegl and Sali A. Tagliamonte. How do you get to Tim Hortons? Direction-giving in Ontario dialects. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne De Linguistique, 66(1), 1-30.

2020

2020. Katharina Pabst, Lex Konnelly, Melanie Rothlisberger and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Individual-vs. community-level variation: New evidence from variable (t,d) in Canadian English. In Proceedings of Methods in Dialectology 16. Tachikawa, Japan. August 7-11, 2017.

2020. Karlien Franco and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Interesting fellow or tough old bird? 3rd person male referents in Ontario. American Speech, 1-22. published on-line 6-21-20.

2020. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Bridget Jankowski. Up north there: Discourse-pragmatic deixis in Northern Ontario. Journal of Pragmatics, 170, 216-230.

2020. Matt Hunt Gardner, Marisa Brook, Derek Denis and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Be like and the Constant Rate Effect: From the bottom to the top of the S-curve. English Language and Linguistics, First View, 1-44. published on-line 4-21-20.

2020. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Katharina Pabst. Cool system, lovely patterns, awesome results: A cross-variety comparison of adjectives of positive evaluation. Journal of English Linguistics, 48(1), 3-30.

2020. Matt Hunt Gardner and Sali A. Tagliamonte. The bike, the back, and the boyfriend: Confronting the "definite article conspiracy" in Canadian and British English. English World-Wide, 41(2), 226-255.

2020. Karlien Franco and Sali A. Tagliamonte. How to gain a new guy in 10 decades: A study of lexical variation in Ontario dialects. American Dialect Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. January 2-7, 2020.

2020. Lauren Bigelow and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Where have all the articles gone? Bare nominals in Marmora and Lake, Ontario. American Dialect Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. January 2-7, 2020.

2020. Karlien Franco and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Lexicalization in grammatical change? The simple past/present perfect alternation in Canadian English. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. January 2-7, 2020.

2019

2019. Bridget L. Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Supper or Dinner? Sociolinguistic Variation in the Meals of the Day. English World-Wide, 40(2), 169-200.

2019. Bridget L. Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte. He come out and give me a beer but he never seen the bear: Old preterites in Ontario dialects. American Dialect Society Annual Meeting. New York City, USA. January 3-6, 2019

2019. Claire Childs, Christopher Harvey, Karen P. Corrigan, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Comparative sociolinguistic insights in the evolution of negation. English Language and Linguistics, 24(1), 1-25.

2019. Derek Denis, Matt Hunt Gardner, Marisa Brook, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Peaks and arrowheads of vernacular reorganization. Language Variation and Change, 31(1), 43-67.

2019. Katharina Pabst and Sali A. Tagliamonte. I/Ø fed the squirrels: The impact of cognitive decline on subject omission in one individual's diaries over the lifespan (1985-2016). New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 48. Eugene, Oregon. October 10-12, 2019.

2019. Katharina Pabst and Sali A. Tagliamonte. You can just google it up: Patterns of variation in particle placement in North American English International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) 10. June 27, 2019.

2019. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Bridget L. Jankowski. Golly, gosh, and oh my God!: What North American dialects can tell us about swear words. American Speech, 95(1), 1-40.

2019. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Bridget L. Jankowski. Grammatical convergence or microvariation? Subject doubling in English in a French dominant town.. Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America Meeting 2019.

2019. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Bridget L. Jankowski. Grammatical convergence or microvariation? Subject doubling in English in a French dominant town. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. New York City, USA. January 3-6, 2019.

2018

2018. Alexandra D'Arcy and Sali A. Tagliamonte. What's age got to do with it? Problematizing the temporal dimension for linguistic explanation. NWAV 47. New York, New York, USA. October 18-21, 2018.

2018. Derek Denis and Sali A. Tagliamonte. The changing future: competition, specialization and reorganization in the contemporary English future temporal reference system English Language and Linguistics, 22(3), 403-430.

2018. James Smith. Sociophonetic variation and change of Northern Ontario English vowels. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

2018. Lisa Schlegl. Right periphery pragmatic markers in real time. MA Forum paper, University of Toronto.

2018. Katharina Pabst and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Cool system, lovely patterns, awesome results: A cross-variety comparison of adjectives of positive evaluation. Discourse-Pragmatic Variationa and Change (DiPVaC) 5. Helsinki, Finland. May 28-30, 2018.

2018. Marisa Brook, Bridget L. Jankowski, Lex Konnelly, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. 'I don't come off as timid anymore': Real-time change in early adulthood against the backdrop of the community. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 22(4), 351-374.

2018. Marisa Brook. Taking it up a level: Copy-raising and cascaded tiers of morphosyntactic change. Language Variation and Change, 30(2), 231-260.

2018. Marisa Brook and Sali A. Tagliamonte. A woman who lives in the city has a sister that lives in a town: Subject relativizers in Canadian English. ICAME 39. Tampere, Finland. May 30-June 3, 2018.


Marisa telling ICAME about Canadian relativizers, urban and rural!

2018. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Katharina Pabst. Variation and change in reduplication and repetition in Ontario dialects. Linguistic Perspectives on Variation. Buffalo, New York, USA. April 6, 2018.

2018. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Katharina Pabst. Really really rare, but stable stable: Reduplication in Spoken English (poster). LSA Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. January 4-7, 2018.

2017

2017. Alexandra D'Arcy. Discourse-pragmatic variation in context: Eight hundred years of like. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2017. Bridget Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte. A lost Canadian dialect: The Ottawa Valley, 1975-2013. In Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin, and Anita Auer (eds.), Exploring future paths for historical sociolinguistics, 239-274. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2017. Bridget Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Supper, dinner, or tea? Sociolinguistic variation in the meals of the day. ADS Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas, USA. January 5-8, 2017.

2017. Cathleen Waters and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Is one innovation enough? Leaders, covariation, and language change. American Speech, 92(1), 23-40.

2017. Cathleen Waters and Sali A. Tagliamonte. One change at a time: Individuals, covariation and change in progress. Biennial Conference on the Diachrony of English 5. Tours, France. July 4-6, 2017.

2017. Cedric Ludlow, Lisa Walkey, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. 'Just down the drag there': Direction-giving in Ontario English. Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society. Austin, Texas, USA. January 5-8, 2017.

2017. Derek Denis and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Language change and fiction. In Miriam A. Locher and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), Pragmatics of fiction (Handbooks of pragmatics, volume 12), 553-584. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

2017. Emily Blamire and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Using Internet language to decipher the actuation of linguistic change (poster). LSA Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas, USA. January 5-8, 2017.

2017. Lex Konnelly, Katharina Pabst, Melanie Röthlisberger, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Is -t/-d deletion a single, unified process? New insights from Toronto English. NWAV 46. Madison, Wisconsin, USA. November 2-6, 2017.

2017. Lex Konnelly, Katharina Pabst, Melanie Röthlisberger, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. The individual and the community: Evidence from -t/-d deletion in Canadian English. Methods in Dialectology 16. Tachikawa, Japan. August 7-11, 2017.

2017. Marisa Brook. I feel like and it feels like: Two paths to the emergence of epistemic markers. NWAV 46 (Madison, Wisconsin, USA – 2-5 November 2017).

2017. Marisa Brook. A two-tiered change in Canadian English: The emergence of a streamlined evidential system. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 23(2), Article 7.

2017. Marisa Brook, Lex Konnelly, Bridget Jankowski, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Post-adolescent change in the individual: Early adulthood against the backdrop of the community. LSA Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas, USA. January 5-8, 2017.


Lex, Marisa, and Bridget present a cross-section of variables in Clara's speech.

2017. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Alexandra D'Arcy. Individuals, communities, and the sociolinguistic canon. NWAV 46. Madison, Wisconsin, USA. November 2-6, 2017.

2017. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Bridget Jankowski. Golly, gosh, and oh my God! What dialect corpora can tell us about swear-words. ICAME 38. Prague, Czech Republic. May 24-28, 2017.

2017. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Derek Denis. Beyond the peak: Evidence for adolescent incrementation in trend and panel studies. ICLaVE 9. Malaga, Spain. June 6-9, 2017.

2016

2016. Cathleen Waters. Practical strategies for elucidating discourse-pragmatic variation. In Pichler, Heike (ed.), Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in English: New methods and insights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2016. Denis Derek and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Innovation, right? Change, you know? Utterance-final tags in Canadian English. In Heike Pichler (ed.), Discourse-pragmatic variation and change: New methods and insights, 86-112. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2016. Katharina Pabst, Sali A. Tagliamonte, and students of the 2015 LSA Summer Institute. Great, cool, and amazing: Adjectives of positive evaluation in Canadian English. Change and Variation in Canada 9. Ottawa, Ontario. May 7-8, 2016.


Katharina describes a cool pattern.

2016. Lex Konnelly. Ideology and community: Evidence from multiple levels of variation within the AdjP. MA Forum paper, University of Toronto.

2016. Lex Konnelly. Like in the adjective phrase: Queering ongoing change in Toronto, Canada. Change and Variation in Canada 9. Ottawa, Ontario. May 7-8, 2016.

2016. Marisa Brook. Syntactic categories informing variationist analysis: The case of English copy-raising. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

2016. Marisa Brook and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Why does North American English use try to but British English use try and? Let's try and/to figure it out. American Speech, 91(3), 301-326.

2016. Matt Hunt Gardner, Derek Denis, Marisa Brook, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. From the bottom to the top of the S-curve: Be like and the Constant Rate Effect. LSA Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., USA. January 7-10, 2016.


Derek, Marisa, and Matt at the 2016 LSA Annual Meeting.

2016. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Bridget Jankowski. Oh yeah okay: Discourse markers on the outer rim. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change 3. Ottawa, Ontario. May 4-6, 2016.


Guiding our audience through the left periphery!

2016. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Bridget Jankowski. Up north here: Discourse-pragmatic deixis in Northen Ontario. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change 3. Ottawa, Ontario. May 4-6, 2016.


On why Northern Ontario locals use non-locative 'here' and 'there' a lot.

2016. Sali A. Tagliamonte, in collaboration with Dylan Uscher, Lawrence Kwok, and students from HUM199Y, 2009-2010. So sick or so cool? The language of youth on the internet. Language in Society, 45(1), 1-32.

2016. Sali A. Tagliamonte, Katharina Pabst, and students from the LSA Summer Institute 2015. An awesome talk: Variation and change in adjectives of positive evaluation (poster). ADS Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., USA. January 7-10, 2016.

2016. Sali A. Tagliamonte, Alexandra D'Arcy, and Celeste Rodríguez Louro. Outliers, impact, and rationalization in linguistic change. Language, 92.4, 824-849.

2016. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Marisa Brook. Adaptive change in sociolinguistic typology: The case of relative who (poster). LSA Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., USA. January 7-10, 2016.


Marisa shows the poster to Kirk Hazen of West Virginia University.

2016. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Ruth Maddeaux. A 'little' story from Northern Ontario: Semantic variation in the linguistic system. Change and Variation in Canada 9. Ottawa, Ontario. May 7-8, 2016.


Little, small, tiny, wee, and more!

2016. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Ruth Maddeaux. Stability, obsolescence and innovation: North American dialects in the 21st century. ADS Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., USA. January 7-10, 2016.

2015

2015. Alexandra D'Arcy and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Not always variable: Probing the vernacular grammar. Language Variation and Change, 27(3), 255-285.

2015. Bridget Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Nobody knows everyone: Longitudinal change in cross-community perspective NWAV 44. Toronto, Ontario. October 22-25, 2015.

2015. Bridget Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte. A lost Canadian dialect: The Ottawa Valley, 1975-2013. ICAME 36. Trier, Germany. May 27-31, 2015.


Telling our European colleagues at ICAME all about the Ottawa Valley dialect.

2015. Claire Childs, Christopher Harvey, Karen Corrigan, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Comparative sociolinguistic insights in the evolution of negation. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 21(2), Article 4.

2015. Claire Childs, Christopher Harvey, Karen Corrigan, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Tracking a change in progress: Any- and no- negation in spoken corpora of British and Canadian English. ICAME 36. Trier, Germany. May 27-31, 2015.

2015. Derek Denis. The development of pragmatic markers in Canadian English. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.


Alex M. and Derek celebrate after Derek's successful thesis defense!

2015. Derek Denis and Alexandra D'Arcy. Input, homogeneity, and stuff like that. Studies in the History of the English Language 9. Vancouver, British Columbia. June 5-7, 2015.

2015. Derek Denis and Alexandra D'Arcy. Homogeneity, convergence, mega-trends, and stuff like that. Queen's University. Kingston, Ontario. March 12, 2015.


Derek presents his work on general extenders with Alexandra D'Arcy
to a class of undergraduates at Queen's University.

2015. James Smith. Sociophonetic variation of Northern Ontario English vowels: Canadian Shift in two non-urban communities. 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Ottawa, Ontario. May 30-June 1, 2015.

2015. Marisa Brook. Relatively distinct: Localized loss of prestige on the periphery of Canadian English. Queen's University. Kingston, Ontario. March 12, 2015.

2015. Marisa Brook. Syntactic categories informing variationist analysis: The case of English copy-raising. LSA Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon, USA. January 8-11, 2015.

2015. Matt Hunt Gardner and Sali A. Tagliamonte. The bike, the back, and the boyfriend: Confronting the 'definite article conspiracy' in Canadian and British English. Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society. Portland, Oregon, USA. January 8-11, 2015.

2015. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Marisa Brook. Let's try and/to figure this out! Using spoken vernacular corpora to inform explanation. ICAME 36. Trier, Germany. May 27-31, 2015.

2015. Ruth Maddeaux. Me, myself, and I: The role of the untriggered reflexive in the English pronominal system. ADS Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon, USA. January 8-11, 2015.

2015. Shannon Mooney. Pathways of obsolescence: Scots /u(:)/ across borders. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 21(1), Article 22.

2014

2014. Bridget Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte. On the genitive's trail: Data and method from a sociolinguistic perspective. English Language and Linguistics, 18(2), 305-329.

2014. Cathleen Waters and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Co-variation in discourse-pragmatic features. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change 2. Newcastle, England, UK. April 7-9, 2014.

2014. Claire Childs, Christopher Harvey, Karen Corrigan, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Comparative sociolinguistic insights in the evolution of negation. NWAV 43. Chicago, Illinois, USA. October 23-26, 2014.

2014. Derek Denis. A variationist perspective on epistemic parentheticals in Ontario. Change and Variation in Canada 8. Kingston, Ontario. May 31-June 1, 2014.

2014. Derek Denis. A real-time investigation of the development of general extenders in Canadian English. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change 2. Newcastle, England, UK. April 7-9, 2014.

2014. Derek Denis and Alexandra D'Arcy. Homogeneity, convergence, mega-trends, and stuff like that. NWAV 43. Chicago, Illinois, USA. October 23-26, 2014.

2014. Derek Denis and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Stability out of grammaticalization? Future temporal reference in North American English. LSA Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. January 2-5, 2014.

2014. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Derek Denis. Expanding the transmission/diffusion dichotomy: Evidence from Canada. Language, 90(1), 90-136.

2014. James Smith. Sociophonetic variation in Northern Ontario vowels: A first look. Change and Variation in Canada 8. Kingston, Ontario. May 31-June 1, 2014.

2014. Marisa Brook. A peripheral view of a change from above: Prestige forms over time in a medium-sized community. NWAV 43. Chicago, Illinois, USA. October 23-26, 2014.

2014. Marisa Brook. Comparative complementizers in Canadian English: Insights from early fiction. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 20(2), Article 2.

2014. Marisa Brook. A peripheral view of a change from above: Prestige forms over time in a medium-sized community. Change and Variation in Canada 8. Kingston, Ontario. May 31-June 1, 2014.

2014. Marisa Brook. A peripheral view of a change from above: Prestige forms over time in a medium-sized community. Generals paper, University of Toronto.

2014. Martin Sneath. Emigrants, isolation, and urban influx: Variable -ing in Haliburton, Ontario. Change and Variation in Canada 8. Kingston, Ontario. May 31-June 1, 2014.

2014. Ruth Maddeaux. Me, myself, and I: The role of the untriggered reflexive in the English pronominal system. MA Forum paper, University of Toronto.

2014. Shannon Mooney. Pathways of obsolescence: Scots /u(:)/ across borders. Penn Linguistics Colloquium 38. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. March 28-30, 2014.

2013

2013. Bridget Jankowski. A variationist approach to cross-register language variation and change. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.


Bridget and I and Cathleen celebrate Bridget's successful thesis defense!

2013. Cathleen Waters. Transatlantic variation in English adverb placement. Language Variation and Change, 25(2), 179-200.

2013. Christopher Harvey. Any and no negation in Southern-Ontario English. NWAV 42. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. October 17-20, 2013.

2013. Derek Denis. The social meaning of eh in Canadian English. Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.

2013. Derek Denis. The social meaning of eh in Canadian English. 2013 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Victoria, British Columbia. June 1-3, 2013.

2013. Derek Denis. On the (non-)grammaticalization of utterance-final right in Canadian English. Change and Variation in Canada 7. Toronto, Ontario. May 4-5, 2013.

2013. Derek Denis. Grammaticalization? Change in the right periphery from 1875 to 2003. Annual Meeting of the LSA. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. January 3-6, 2013.

2013. James Smith. Sociophonetic variation of word-final stop voicing in Toronto English. Generals paper, University of Toronto.

2013. James Smith. Sociophonetic variation of word-final stop voicing in Toronto English. Change and Variation in Canada 7. Toronto, Ontario. May 4-5, 2013.

2013. Marisa Brook. Comparative complementizers in Canadian English: Insights from early fiction. NWAV 42. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. October 17-20, 2013.

2013. Matt Hunt Gardner, Derek Denis, Marisa Brook, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. Be like at the saturation point: What large-scale student research projects can discover. U of T Society of Linguistics Undergraduates (SLUGS). Toronto, Ontario. November 21, 2013.


Derek, Marisa, and Matt present their work with Sali to the U of T SLUGS (Society of Linguistics Undergraduates).

2013. Matt Hunt Gardner, Derek Denis, Marisa Brook, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. The new global flow of linguistic influence: be like at the saturation point. NWAV 42. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. October 17-20, 2013.

2013. Matt Hunt Gardner, Derek Denis, Marisa Brook, and Sali A. Tagliamonte. "I'm like, 'It's different in York'": Real-time and apparent-time quotative trends in Toronto, Canada and York, England. Change and Variation in Canada 7. Toronto, Ontario. May 4-5, 2013.

2012

2012. Cathleen Waters. That way madness lies: Problems and solutions in the study of adverb variability. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change 2012. Manchester, England, UK. April 17-20, 2012.

2012. Cathleen Waters. Adverb placement: Variation and syntax (poster). LSA Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon, USA. January 5-8, 2012.

2012. Derek Denis. Eh? A short history of its social and pragmatic functions. Canadian English: Linguistic variation in space and time. Toronto, Ontario. November 23, 2012.

2012. James Smith. Phonetic and perceptual variation of word-final stops in Toronto English. Generals paper, University of Toronto.

2012. James Smith. It's a bik deal: Phonetic variation of word-final stop voicing in Toronto English. NWAV 41. Bloomington, Indiana, USA. October 25-28, 2012.

2012. LeAnn Brown and Sali A. Tagliamonte. A really interesting story: The influence of narrative in linguistic change. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 18(2), Article 2.

2012. Shannon Mooney. Variation in /au/: Scots /u/ across borders and around the Irish Sea. MA Forum paper, University of Toronto.

2011

2011. Derek Denis. The bastardization of language?: Exploring the language of text messaging. Faculty of Arts and Science Study Languages Conference, University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario. December 8, 2011.

2011. Derek Denis. Innovators and innovation: Tracking the innovators of and stuff in York English. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 17(2), Article 8.

2011. Cathleen Waters. Social and linguistic correlates of adverb variability in English: A cross-varietal perspective. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

2011. James Smith. We say 'Taronno': Sociophonetics of /nt/ cluster variation in Toronto English. CRC Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop. Toronto, Ontario. June 16, 2011.

2011. LeAnn Brown and Sali A. Tagliamonte. A really interesting story: The influence of narrative in linguistic change. NWAV 40. Washington, D.C., USA. October 27-29, 2011.

2011. Marisa Brook. Looks as if there's something interesting going on here: Comparative complementizers following perception verbs in Canadian English. MA Forum paper, University of Toronto.

2011. Marisa Brook. Looks like there's something interesting going on here. Change and Variation in Canada 5. Victoria, British Columbia. May 14-15, 2011.

2011. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Bridget Jankowski. On the genitive's trail: Data and method from a sociolinguistic perspective. International Society for the Linguistics of English 2. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. June 17-21, 2011.

2011. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Cathleen Waters. Co-variation in the speech community: Methods for identifying innovators and their repertoires. Methods in Dialectology 14. London, Ontario. August 2-6, 2011.

2011. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Dylan Uscher. Teen language in the virtual speech community: Building and analyzing a corpus of Internet media. ICAME 32. Oslo, Norway. June 1-5, 2011.

2010

2010. Cathleen Waters. Variability in adverb placement: A transatlantic perspective. Change and Variation in Canada 4. St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. June 19, 2010.

2010. Derek Denis. Innovators and innovation: Tracking the innovators of and stuff in York. Generals paper, University of Toronto.

2010. Derek Denis. The trajectories of general extenders from a transatlantic perspective. NWAV 39. San Antonio, Texas, USA. November 4-6, 2010.

2010. Derek Denis. Transmission and diffusion of change: Implications for the homogeneity of Canadian English. International Association of World Englishes 16. Vancouver, British Columbia. July 26, 2010.

2010. Derek Denis. A tale of a few cities' and stuff. Change and Variation in Canada 4. St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. June 19, 2010.

2010. Derek Denis. Asymmetric trajectories: General extenders from a transatlantic perspective. Sociolinguistic Perspectives Summer School. Copenhagen, Denmark. June 2010.

2010. Dylan Uscher. Understanding the linguistic centaur: Language variation and change in computer-mediated communication. MA Forum paper, University of Toronto.

2010. Sali A. Tagliamonte, Alexandra D'Arcy, and Bridget Jankowski. Social work and linguistic systems: Marking possession in Canadian English. Language Variation and Change, 22(1), 149-173.

2010. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Bridget Jankowski. The genitive in today's world or the genitive in the world of today. NWAV 39. San Antonio, Texas, USA. November 4-6, 2010.

2010. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Cathleen Waters. Innovators across innovations: Exploring co-variables in linguistic change. NWAV 39. San Antonio, Texas, USA. November 4-6, 2010.

2010. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Derek Denis. The stuff of change: General extenders in Toronto, Canada. Journal of English Linguistics, 38(4), 335-368.

2009

2009. Cathleen Waters. Transatlantic divergence: Social and linguistic correlates of actually/really variation. NWAV 38. Ottawa, Ontario. October 22-25, 2009.

2009. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Cathleen Waters. A tale of two cities: Comparing sociolinguistic patterns in England and Canada. American Association for Corpus Linguistics 2009. Edmonton, Alberta. October 8-11, 2009.

2009. Cathleen Waters. Actually, it’s really more than youth speech. UK Language Variation and Change 7. Newcastle, England, UK. September 1-3, 2009.

2009. Cathleen Waters. Transatlantic divergence: The social and grammatical correlates of actually/really variation. Change and Variation in Canada 3. Toronto, Ontario. June 20-21, 2009.

2009. Cathleen Waters. The case of actually in North American English. Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society. San Francisco, California, USA. January 8-11, 2009.

2009. Derek Denis. Transmission and diffusion above the level of phonology: Evidence from Thunder Bay. MA Forum paper, University of Toronto.

2009. Derek Denis. Operationalizing Labov’s transmission and diffusion. Language Variation and Change Research Group, University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario. May 1, 2009.

2009. Derek Denis. So eh is still Canadian, right? A quantitative sociolinguistic investigation of changing discourse particles. ADS Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California, USA. January 8-11, 2009.

2009. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Dylan Uscher. Queer youth in the speech community: Enriching large-scale studies of variation and change. NWAV 38. Ottawa, Ontario. October 22-25, 2009.

2008

2008. Cathleen Waters. Actually, it's really more than grammaticalization. Generals paper, University of Toronto.

2008. Derek Denis. A variationist analysis of modality in rural Ontario. LSA Summer Meeting. Columbus, Ohio, USA. July 2008.

2008. Derek Denis. A new perspective on deontic modality in Canada. Change and Variation in Canada 2. Ottawa, Ontario. June 22, 2008.

2008. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Derek Denis. From community to community: Transmission and diffusion in Canadian English. NWAV 37. Houston, Texas, USA. November 2008.

2008. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Derek Denis. Linguistic ruin? LOL! Instant messaging and teen language. American Speech, 83(1), 3-34.

2008. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Derek Denis. The stuff of change: General extenders in North American English. ADS Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, USA. January 2008.

2007

2007. Alexandra D'Arcy. Like and language ideology: Disentangling fact from fiction. American Speech, 82(4), 386-419.

2007. Cathleen Waters. Perfectly identical? Variation in the perfect system in English. Change and Variation in Canada 1. Toronto, Ontario. May 31, 2007.

2007. Christine Berger. Second dialect acquisition: The case of /r/. NWAV 36. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. October 11-14, 2007.

2007. Christine Berger. Second dialect acquisition: The case of /r/. MA Forum paper, University of Toronto.

2007. Derek Denis. From 'harrrbour' English to 'hippie' English. Language Variation and Change Research Group, University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario. November, 2007.

2007. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Derek Denis. Linguistic ruin? LOL! Leaside High School. Toronto, Ontario. November 2007.

2007. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Sonja Molfenter. How'd you get that accent? Acquiring a second dialect of the same language. Language in Society, 36(5), 649-675.

2006

2006. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Derek Denis. LOL for real. Instant messaging, teen language and linguistic change. Linguistics Association of Canada and the United States 33. Toronto, Ontario. July 2006.

2005

2005. Alexandra D'Arcy. Like: Syntax and development. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

2005. Anne St-Amand. Subject-verb agreement in British English: Variation and microparametric syntax. Generals paper, University of Toronto.

2005. Sali A. Tagliamonte and Derek Denis. OMG, it's so PC. NWAV 34. New York City, New York, USA. October 2005.

2003

2003. Tracy Wolgemuth. It's like discourse like: The story of like in Canadian English in 1995. MA Forum paper, University of Toronto.

2002

2002. Manami Hirayama. Tracking the diffusion of sociophonetic change: Glottal replacement in northeast England. NWAV 31. Stanford, California, USA. October 10-13, 2002.

2002. Manami Hirayama. T-glottalling in York English. Generals paper, University of Toronto.

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