We are a group of graduate students and faculty at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa who are interested in Sociolinguistics. Using a wide variety of methods, we work together on projects which investigate the relationship between language and society and the use of language in society.
We meet every other Friday at 3:45pm, though this is subject to change every semester. Our current meeting place is behind Jefferson Hall, overlooking the Japanese Gardens. A map is available here. If you are interested in joining us, email Katie at katiedragerATgmail.com.
Shane Bauerle
Britney Carey
Rebecca Clifford
Yumiko Enyo
Kate Hardeman
Elena Indjieva
Heeyeong Jung
Kent Sakoda
Kaori Ueki
Mary Walworth
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January 2012
Drager, Katie, Rachel Schutz, Ivan Chik, Kate Hardeman and Victor Jih (2012) When hearing is believing: Perceptions of speaker style, gender, ethnicity, and pitch. Paper to be presented at the LSA Annual Meeting. Portland, January 2012.
Grama, James (2012) The indexical weight of a single formant in California English. Paper to be presented at the LSA Annual Meeting. Portland, January 2012.
Kirtley, M. Joelle (2012) Survival of the lowest? The effect of pitch difference on the perceptions of male speakers. Poster to be presented at the LSA Annual Meeting. Portland, January 2012.
Kanno, Kazue, Masumi Hannah, Sorin Huh, and Heeyeong Jung (2012) Does the head direction affect the choice of processing strategies? Poster to be presented at the LSA Annual Meeting. Portland, January 2012.
Walworth, Mary (2012) Who owns the words? Three principles for protecting native speakers in the archival record. Paper to be presented at the LSA Annual Meeting. Portland, January 2012.
October 2011Drager, Katie (2011) Sociophonetic variation and the lemma. Journal of Phonetics 39(4): 694-707.
Drager, Katie (2011) Style and perceived sexuality. Paper presented at Erez Levon Sexuality in Language: Analyzing complex social practice, themed panel at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40. Georgetown, Washington D.C., October 2011.
Drager, Katie, Rebecca Clifford, and Jennifer Hay (2011) The production and perception of a low back vowel merger. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40. Georgetown, October 2011.
Kirtley, M. Joelle (2011) A study of the perception of four linguistic variables and their relationship to military speech. Paper presented at NWAV 40 at Georgetown.
July 2011Drager, Katie (2011) Methods in Experimental Sociolinguistics. Paper presented at Yaegor-Dror, M. and M. DiPaolo Sociophonetics, workshop at the LSA Summer Institute. Boulder, CO, July 2011.
June 2011Drager, Katie and Jennifer Hay (2011) Mergers in Production and Perception. Paper presented at a workshop organized by Kevin Watson, Lynn Clark, and Warren Maguire on Mergers in English: Perspectives from phonology, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics at ISLE, Boston, USA, 17-21 June.
Drager, Katie (2011) Social Information and Speech Perception. Paper presented at a panel discussion on Perception and Attitude organized by Stefanie Jannedy and Melanie Weirich. ICLaVE, Freiburg, Germany, 29 June-1 July.
Drager, Katie (2011) Co-Constructing Identity: evidence from ethnographic and experimental research on language. Paper presented at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, June 2011.
April 2011Drager, Katie (2011) Style, Stereotypes, and Sound Change. Plenary address at the 15th Annual Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Hardeman, Kate (2011) Chuck Norris Jokes: Representations of gender stereotypes in American society. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
March 2011Drager, Katie (2011) Speaker age and vowel perception. Language and Speech 54(1):99-121.
Kirtley, M. Joelle (2011) Speech in the U.S. Military: A Sociophonetic Perception Approach to Identity and Meaning. MA thesis completed at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
February 2011Hardeman, Kate (2011) Foreigners Speaking Chinese: Native Mandarin speakers' perceptions of Chinese as a second language (CSL) speakers. Paper presented at the 10th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference on the Asia-Pacific Region. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
January 2011Drager, Katie (2011) The Present and Future of Linguistics: a panel discussion. With W. O'Grady and K. Rehg. Linguistics Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
December 2010Drager, Katie (2010) Perceived Style. Paper presented at the inaugural workshop on Language, Brain, and Behaviour. Christchurch, New Zealand.
Drager, Katie, Jennifer Hay, and Abby Walker (2010) Pronounced rivalries: Attitudes and speech production. Te Reo 53: 27-53.
Hay, Jennifer, Katie Drager, Paul Warren. (2010) Short-term exposure to one dialect affects processing of another. Language and Speech 53(4):447-471.
November 2010Kirtley, M. Joelle (2010) Making a Soldier out of a Civilian: Linguistic Identity in the U.S. Military. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society's Language Variation and Change in the United States and Canada 2010. Chicago, November 4-7, 2010.
Walworth, Mary (2010) title TBA. Paper presented at the New Zealand Language and Society Conference.
Glenn, Akiemi (2010) Malo ni, it's Saturday School: Navigating linguistic resources and negotiating diasporic spaces in Hawai'i's Tokelauan community. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, November 17-21, 2010.
Drager, Katie, Carly Salter and Megan Macinkowicz (2010) Perceived Style, Sexuality, and Pitch: An experimental approach. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39. San Antonio, November 2010.
Glenn, Akiemi (2010) Phonemic variation in the Hawai‘i Tokelauan diaspora. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39. San Antonio, November 2010.
Drager, Katie and Jennifer Hay (2010) A Novice's Guide to Understanding Mixed Effects Models. Paper presented as part of the workshop on Using Statistical Tools to Explain Linguistic Variation at NWAV 39, San Antonio.
September 2010Berbusse, Laura and Mike Clauss (2010) Lomnak Majol. Paper presented at the Foundation of Endangered Languages' conference on Reversing Language Shift: How to Re-awaken a Language Tradition Carmarthen, Wales, September 2010.
Hall-Lew, Lauren and Katie Drager (2010) Accounting for Variability in Measures of Vowel Merger. Paper presented in Pharao, N. Beyond Averages: different ways of looking at vowel variation, Sociolinguistics Symposium 18, University of Southampton, UK, September 2010.
Lee, Nala Huiying (2010) One lexifier, two substrates and the lexifier effect. Linguistics Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Waldrip, Aaron and Mary Walworth (2010) The Fua Le‘o Project: promoting self-publication in Polynesian languages. Paper presented at the Foundation of Endangered Languages' conference on Reversing Language Shift: How to Re-awaken a Language Tradition Carmarthen, Wales, September 2010.
July 2010Drager, Katie (2010) Sociophonetic Variation in Speech Perception. Language and Linguistics Compass 4(7):473-480.
Drager, Katie and Jennifer Hay. (2010) Visual subliminal primes affect vowel perception. Poster presented at the 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Albuquerque, July 2010.
Hay, Jennifer and Katie Drager (2010) Stuffed toys and speech perception. Linguistics 48(4):865-892.
June 2010Drager, Katie (2010) Exploring Stored Representations of Speaker Style. Paper presented at the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sociolinguistic Meaning, the Ohio State University, June 2010.
May 2010Grama, James and Bodo Winter. (2010) The Duality of a Homosexual Epithet in Sports. Proceedings of 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature.
Kirtley, M. Joelle (2010) Making a Soldier out of a Civilian: Linguistic Identity in the U.S. Military. Proceedings of 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature.
Drager, Katie (2010) Sensitivity to grammatical and sociophonetic variability in perception. Laboratory Phonology 1(1):93-120.
Place Names in Hawai‘i (ongoing research)
Carly Salter
Julia Wieting