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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://sophieholmeselliott.com/about-1" title="https://sophieholmeselliott.com/about-1">Dr.
Sophie Holmes-Elliott</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Queen
Mary University of London) is invited to present at the MSU linguistics colloquium series this semester. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please save the date!</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Friday March 5th, 2021, 11:00am-12:30pm EST.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Dr. Sophie Holmes-Elliott's</span> research focuses on the
quantitative analysis of linguistic variation and change. Her work in language change and young speakers’ developmental shifts are especially germane to the theoretical goals of
<a href="https://www.mi-diaries.org" title="https://www.mi-diaries.org">the MI Diaries project</a> at the sociolinguistics lab. Additionally, we will also be reading one of her papers on p</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">re-adolescent
calibration</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">at
the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://sociolab.wagnersu.msu.domains/reading-groups/sociolinguistic-development-across-the-lifespan-reading-group/" title="http://sociolab.wagnersu.msu.domains/reading-groups/sociolinguistic-development-across-the-lifespan-reading-group/">Sociolinguistic
development across the lifespan reading group</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> on March 1, 2021. Please check out the reading
<a href="https://www-cambridge-org.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/core/journals/language-in-society/article/calibrate-to-innovate-community-age-vectors-and-the-real-time-incrementation-of-language-change/25944BA86C289F9AEF1A343003EAB517" title="https://www-cambridge-org.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/core/journals/language-in-society/article/calibrate-to-innovate-community-age-vectors-and-the-real-time-incrementation-of-language-change/25944BA86C289F9AEF1A343003EAB517">
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