<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Friends of Sociolinguistics,</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> We're delighted to welcome back Dr. Wil Rankinen (Grand Valley State University) to the MSU Sociolinguistics Lab on Monday! <span style="margin:0px">One of Wil's current research projects is tracking the reversal of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift in Michigan. He'll talk to us about his results so far:</span></div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> <span style="margin:0px"><br> </span></div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> <b>Dr. Wil Rankinen </b></div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> <b>Grand Valley State University</b></div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> Monday, October 19, 2020</div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> 2:00-3:00 PM</div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> <a href="https://msu.zoom.us/j/98418360065" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://msu.zoom.us/j/98418360065" style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">https://msu.zoom.us/j/98418360065</a><br> </div> <div class="x__Entity x__EType_OWALinkPreview x__EId_OWALinkPreview_1 x__EReadonly_1" style="margin:0px"> </div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:white"> <span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black">ID: 984 1836 0065</span><br> </div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:white"> <span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black">Password:<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span style="margin:0px">sociolab</span></span></div> </div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> <br> </div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> This will be an informal meeting, so feel free to come and ask lots of questions. Wil completed his BA in Linguistics at MSU in 2008. He wrote his senior thesis on Upper Peninsula English under the supervision of Dennis Preston. Wil returned to MSU as a lecturer in 2013-2014, and we still consider him to be a Spartan sociolinguist<span> </span><span style="margin:0px">🙂</span></div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> <br> </div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> You can read more about Wil's research here: <a href="https://www.gvsu.edu/csd/sociolinguistics-sociophonetics-and-speech-science-research-lab-41.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">https://www.gvsu.edu/csd/sociolinguistics-sociophonetics-and-speech-science-research-lab-41.htm</a></div> <div class="x__Entity x__EType_OWALinkPreview x__EId_OWALinkPreview x__EReadonly_1" style="margin:0px"> </div> <div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> <br style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </div> Suzanne</div> <div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div id="Signature"> <div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"></p> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px"><br> </div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">-----------------------</div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">Suzanne Evans Wagner | she, her, hers </div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">Director of Graduate Studies for Linguistics</div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics and Languages</span><br> </div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">Michigan State University<br> East Lansing, MI 48824</div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px"><br> </div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px"><i>NOTE: Because of pandemic school/childcare arrangements, I will be slow to respond on Tuesdays.</i><br> <br> Tel: +1 (517) 355-9739<br> <a href="http://wagnersu.msu.domains" class="OWAAutoLink">wagnersu.msu.domains</a><br> <a href="http://sociolab.wagnersu.msu.domains" class="OWAAutoLink">sociolab.wagnersu.msu.domains</a></div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px"><br> </div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">Office hours: <a href="https://wagnersu.youcanbook.me">https://wagnersu.youcanbook.me</a></div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">Co-editor, </span><i style="font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; font-weight:inherit"><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/series/RSLC/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Routledge Studies in Language Change</a></i><br> </div> <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>