<div dir="ltr"><div>FOS,</div><div><br></div><div>This week's colloquium speaker is socio-phonetician Dr Mary Kohn of Kansas State. Details below!</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Kohn will also give a more informal talk to the Sociolinguistics Lab earlier in the day, 12:30 - 1:30pm in B-411 Wells Hall. This will be on a new project investigating Latinx speech in southwest Kansas. Please let me know if you plan to come along, in case we need to find a bigger venue.</div><div><br></div><div>If you or a colleague or student would like to meet individually with Dr Kohn, please contact the graduate student organizers, Kaylin Smith (<a href="mailto:smit2297@msu.edu">smit2297@msu.edu</a>) and Scott Nelson (<a href="mailto:nelso672@msu.edu">nelso672@msu.edu</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Suzanne</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: Smith, Kaylin Marie <<a href="mailto:smit2297@msu.edu">smit2297@msu.edu</a>><br>Date: Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:13 AM<br>Subject: [lin-colloq] MSU Linguistics Colloquium with Prof. Mary Kohn (Kansas State) this Thursday (3/22)<br>To: <a href="mailto:lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu">lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu">lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu</a>><br>Cc: Nelson, Scott James <<a href="mailto:nelso672@msu.edu">nelso672@msu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This is a reminder from the MSU </span>Linguistics<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><font color="black">Colloquium</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Committee
that the next </span>colloquium<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> will take place this Thursday,
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">March</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> 22nd at 4:30pm, in B342 Wells Hall. Our speaker is Professor
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Mary Kohn</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Kansas State </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">University),
whose talk is titled "</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Supra-local change and social meaning: TRAP backing in the Great Plains</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">" (abstract below). </span><font size="3" color="#911844"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span class="m_1907249078976211523contextualExtensionHighlight m_1907249078976211523ms-font-color-themePrimary m_1907249078976211523ms-border-color-themePrimary m_1907249078976211523ident_417_502"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">will
have a coffee reception at 4PM </span></span></span></font><font size="3" color="#911844"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span class="m_1907249078976211523contextualExtensionHighlight m_1907249078976211523ms-font-color-themePrimary m_1907249078976211523ms-border-color-themePrimary m_1907249078976211523ident_417_502"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">in
Wells B342 and will go to dinner at Altu's at </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">6:30PM.</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The schedule for the rest of the </span><span id="m_19072490789762115230.6460934977758515">colloquium</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> series can
be found on our website </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__msulinguists.weebly.com_colloquium-2Dand-2Devents.html&d=DwMF-g&c=nE__W8dFE-shTxStwXtp0A&r=QmhZA4PVAobB5LX6f20h_A&m=nLYDHW_PAY5bi0t44SOCgFHWn7WlOV_R5_G4MMKtbLU&s=17GRay_wjJkvHx9aEmyVSiqnP1j1Rt-6RMZHB3pwvHA&e=" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="m_1907249078976211523LPlnk986227" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">here</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. We
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Sincerely, </span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Kaylin Smith and Scott Nelson</span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">MSU </span>Linguistics<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><span id="m_19072490789762115230.07389548963773263">Colloquium</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Co</span>mmittee
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<div><b>Supra-local change and social meaning: TRAP backing in the Great Plains</b></div>
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<div>Over the last fifty years many varieties of English have undergone a dramatic change in which the front lax vowels undergo retraction. This supra-regional shift, known as the California Vowel Shift (CVS) is found throughout the American West (Fridland
et al. 2016, 2017), the Midwest (Durian 2012, Lusk 1974, Strelluf 2014) and even Lansing, MI (Wagner et al. 2016), to name just a few locations. While scholars have identified a wide-spread distribution for this change, little is known about the origin and
timing of this spread. Further, little is known about how such wide-spread changes gain indexical meanings. This talk will first review evidence for the presence of the CVS in Kansas. Through an apparent time analysis of over fifty speakers, I demonstrate
that the CVS has been present in Kansas for at least fifty years. I will then compare my findings to previous studies of the CVS to argue that the shift emerged simultaneously with similar patterns in the Southwest and West Coast. Finally, I will present evidence
from a perception study to examine social meanings of the shift in Kansas.<br>
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Thirty five listeners participated in a combination of a dialect recognition tasks (Williams et al. 1999) and matched-guise tasks (Campbell-Kibler 2007). Four critical stimuli belonged to one of two matched guises, which were acoustically manipulated so that
only trap F2 differed between matched guises (Villarreal 2016). Conservative guises contained fronted (higher F2) trap and shifted guises contained backed (lower F2) trap. In each trial, listeners identified speakers’ regional origin and rated speakers on
14 affective Likert scales. Results suggest that in Kansas trap backing is associated with California despite local participation in the sound shift and perhaps reflecting the enregisterment of this variable in national media. Instead of associating trap backing
with local identity, as Californians do, this sound change appears to index both prestige and youth in Kansas, perhaps motivating the spread of this sound change in the region. These results illuminate how local meanings interact with and are influenced by
more widespread discourses about language and social meaning at the national level, thus providing additional clues to how supra-regional variants are incorporated into local varieties. </div>
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