Presentations

Conference Presentations

  • 2023 Berman, Elise, Rebecca Roeder and Katlyn Anderson. “Eye Gaze and Its Meaning: Marshallese students and listening conflicts in U.S. Schools.” American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, November 15-19.
  • 2023 Roeder, Rebecca and Matt Hunt Gardner. “STRUT and FOOT shift too!: Revisiting the Phonological Implications of the Low Back Merger.” American Dialect Society Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, January 5-8.
  • 2023 Roeder, Rebecca and Ally Gentry. “Dialect Contact and Merger Reversal: Production and Perception of Two Pre-lateral Mergers in Charlotte, NC.” American Dialect Society Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, January 5-8.
  • 2022 Roeder, Rebecca and Matt Hunt Gardner. “A Unified Account of the Low Back Merger Shift.” 17th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Mainz, Germany, August 1-5.
  • 2022 Roeder, Rebecca and Elise Berman. “Marshallese English in the United States: A First Sketch.” American Dialect Society Annual Meeting, January 6-9, online.
  • 2021 Berman, Elise and Rebecca Roeder. “Neocolonial Englishes: Marshallese Children’s Language in a Context of Migration.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 17- 21, online.
  • 2021 Roeder, Rebecca and Matt Hunt Gardner. “PALM and the low back merger shift: Evidence from Victoria, BC.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 49, hosted by University of Texas at Austin, October 19-24, online.
  • 2019 Berman, Elise and Rebecca Roeder. “Non-Standard English Speakers as English Learners?: Marshallese Students and the Effects of Language Policy on Neocolonial Subjects.” Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference, University of Toronto, August 22-24.
  • 2018 With Sky Onosson. “Best Practices in Automatic Vowel Production Analysis.” Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, University of Auckland, NZ, June 27-30.
  • 2018 “Mid-century Evidence on the Low Back Merger from Victoria, BC”. Canadian Variation and Change 10, Winnipeg, May 4-5. (Invited plenary)
  • 2016 With Matt Hunt Gardner. “A Phonological Model of the Canadian Shift.” Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 7-10.
  • 2015 With Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Elizabeth Miller. “Pedagogy, Audience, and Attitudes: Influencing Metalinguistic Awareness about Text Practices.” Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 1, Valencia, Spain, November 19-20.
  • 2015 With Sky Onosson and Alexandra D’Arcy. “Simultaneous Innovation and Conservation: Unpacking Victoria’s Vowels.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 44, University of Toronto, October 22-25.
  • 2015. “Conflict and Community: Spanish in the Linguistic Landscape of Charlotte, NC.” Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT), Washington, D.C., March 13-15.
  • 2015. With Sky Onosson and Alexandra D’Arcy. “City, Province or Region? What Do the Vowels of Victoria English Tell Us?” American Dialect Society, Portland, OR, January 8-10.
  • 2014. With Matt Hunt Gardner. “A Tale of Two Phonologies: English in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics 81, Myrtle Beach, SC, March 27-29.
  • 2013. With Matt Hunt Gardner. “Phonetics as a Complement to Phonology in the Canadian Shift.” Poster presentation. 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, CA, December 2-6.
  • 2012. With Matt Hunt Gardner. “The Phonology of the Canadian Shift: Thunder Bay and Industrial Cape Breton.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 41, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 25-28.
  • 2012. “Active Homogeneity: The Canadian Shift in Ontario.” Poster presentation. Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Freie Universität, Berlin, August 21-24.
  • 2011. “The Canadian Shift in Ontario: Transmission and Diffusion.” Poster presentation. 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA, October 31-November 4.
  • 2011. “Geolinguistic Diffusion of the Canadian Shift near Toronto?” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 27-30.
  • 2010. “The Phonetics-Phonology Interface in the Canadian Shift.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39, San Antonio, TX, November 4-6.
  • 2010. “Diffusion and dispersion in the Canadian Shift.” Change and Variation in Canada IV, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, June 19-20.
  • 2009. “Northern Cities Chicano English: Evidence from Vowel Production and Perception.” Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 12-15.
  • 2008. “Definite Article Reduction and the Obligatory Contour Principle.” 13th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, University of Leeds, England, August 4-8.
  • 2008. “Shifts and Splits: The Canadian Shift as a Catalyst for Phonemic Change.” Change and Variation in Canada II, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 21-22.
  • 2008. “Definite article reduction: Phonological conditioning of a zero form.” Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL, January 3-6.
  • 2007. With Sali Tagliamonte. “Variation in the definite article: Exploring the sociophonetics of its form and function.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 36, Philadelphia, PA, October 11-14.
  • 2007. With Lidia-Gabriela Jarmasz. “The Canadian Shift in Toronto.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 36, Philadelphia, PA, October 11-14.
  • 2007. “Understanding Lansing: Mexican American listeners in Michigan.” American Dialect Society, Anaheim, CA, January 4-6.
  • 2006. “The Northern Cities Shift and Chicano English in Lansing, MI.” American Dialect Society, Albuquerque, NM, January 6-7.
  • 2006. With Jaclyn Ocumpaugh. “Influences of contact on Latino English in Michigan.” Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, January 5-8.
  • 2005. “Chicano English in Michigan.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 34, New York, NY, October 20-23.
  • 2005. With Jaclyn Ocumpaugh. “Hispanic English in context: Accommodation to other available norms in urban Michigan.” 12th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, August 1-5.
  • 2005. “Speaking Chicana across generations: A case study in Michigan.” 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 24-29.
  • 2004. “Comparative Bantu vowel systems.” 35th Annual Conference for African Linguistics, Harvard University, Boston, MA, April 2-4.
  • 2002. With Bartek Plichta. “Creaky voice as a sociophonetic variable in Lower Michigan.” Michigan Linguistic Society, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, October 19.
  • 2000. With Christina Higgins and Mary Thompson. “Case study: Do secondary school students in the U.S. need critical thinking skills to achieve?” Second Language Research Forum, University of Wisconsini-Madison, September 7-10.

Invited Presentations

  • 2018 “The role of PALM in the low back merger: Theory and Evidence.” Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, November 29.
  • 2014. “Understanding Accent: The Canadian Shift as Default.” English Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, March 21.
  • 2012. “DAR in York: Exploring the Phonetics.” Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, February 6.
  • 2011. “Vowel shifting in North America: Evidence from two case studies.” Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, January 28.
  • 2009. “The production/perception interface in an immigrant speech community in the Midwest.” English Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, February 23.
  • 2009. Panelist for “The job market for linguists.” American Dialect Society, San Francisco, CA, January 8-11. [Held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting].
  • 2008. “Accent and Ethnicity: Mexican American English in the Midwest.” Department of English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, December 2.
  • 2008. “English in the Canadian heartland: Vowel change in progress.” Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, February 1.
  • 2007. “Regional dialects of North American English: Vowel patterns.” Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUGS), University of Toronto, November 22.
  • 2007. “Definite article reduction: Phonological conditioning of a zero form.” The Coronals Workshop, University of Toronto, November 9.
  • 2007. “Do Mexican Americans in lower Michigan have a distinct dialect of English? Evidence from production and perception.” Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, January 24.
  • 2007. “Do Mexican Americans in Lower Michigan have a distinct dialect? Evidence from production and perception.” French Department, University of Western Ontario, January 18.
  • 2007. “Do Mexican Americans in lower Michigan have a distinct dialect of English? Evidence from production and perception.” Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, January 16.
  • 2006. “Mexican American English and the Northern Cities Shift.” Spanish Microvariation Group, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto, November 27.
  • 2006. “Mexican American English and the Northern Cities Shift.” Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, April 17.
  • 2006. “Accent and ethnicity.” Linguistics Department, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL, March 9.
  • 2006. “Accent and ethnicity: The pronunciation of English vowels by Mexican Americans in Lansing, Michigan.” Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, February 27.