Introduction
The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) aims at addressing any aspect of linguistic variation observed in languages spoken in present-day Europe. The idea of setting up this conference originated in the Coordination Committee of the European Science Foundation Network on the Convergence and Divergence of Dialects in a Changing Europe, which was funded from 1995 to 1998. ICLaVE will continue work in this and other areas related to language variation. The first ICLaVE took place in Barcelona June 29 - 30/ July 1, 2000, and was organized by M. Teresa Turell (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). The scientific program consisted of regular papers (selected on the basis of abstracts), invited papers and poster presentations.
The proceedings of ICLaVE 1 are currently being edited and are scheduled to appear in 2001.
ICLaVE 2 is tentatively planned for 2003 and will be held in a Scandinavian country still to be determined.
Programme for ICLaVE 1
| Day 1 (Thursday, June 29) |
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9:30
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Auditorium | Welcoming remarks. Excel·lentíssim i Magnífic Rector de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Auditorium) |
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10:00
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Auditorium | Invited Speaker: J. K. Chambers (U Toronto): Universal sources of the vernacular |
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11:30 | Break | |
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12:00
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Auditorium | Dominic Watt (U Leeds): An acoustic investigation of vowel fronting in urban Yorkshire English |
| Room 108 | Jarmo Lainio (Stockholm U): Quantification of variable syntax data in borrowing contact situation -a must or waste for reliable descriptions of a changing syntax? | ||
| Room 208 | Jannis K. Androutsopoulos (U Heidelberg): From the street to the screen and back again: On the mediated diffusion of variation patterns in contemporary German | ||
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12:30
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Auditorium | Paul Foulkes (U Leeds / U York), Gerard J. Docherty (U Newcastle) & Dominic Watt (U Leeds / U York): Tracking the emergence of structured variation in 2-4 year-olds | |
| Room 108 | Alazne Landa (Euskal Herriko U) & Jon Franco (U Deusto): The role of syntax in language variation | ||
| Room 208 | Leonie Cornips (R Netherlands Acad of A & S): Ethnic varieties of Dutch | ||
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13:00 | Lunch break | |
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15:00
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Auditorium | Anne Fabricius (Copenhagen Business S): T-glottalling: ‘rough’, ‘posh’, or somewhere in between? |
| Room 108 | Caroline Sandström (Uppsala U): Synchronic variation in the gender system during dialect levelling | ||
| Room 208 | Lorenz Hofer (U Basel): Urban dialects in Basel, Switzerland: Variation, change and attitudes | ||
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15:30
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Auditorium | Carmen Llamas (U Leeds): Convergent and divergent trends in Teesside English | |
| Room 108 | Anthony J. Naro & Maria Marta Pereira Scherre (UF Rio Janeiro): The historical evolution of variable concord in Portuguese | ||
| Room 208 | Eva Sundgren (Unit Adv. Studies in Modern Swedish): A Swedish case study of language change in real time: The impact of integration in the local community on linguistic behaviour | ||
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16:00
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Auditorium | Franny P. Hsiao (MIT): Word order variation in the West Germanic verb clusters and the functional/lexical distinction | |
| Room 108 | José Carrasquel (Northern Illionois U): The grammaticalization chain from Classical Latin illi(s) to Spanish le(s) | ||
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16:30 | Break | |
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17:00
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Auditorium | Mark J. Jones (U Cambridge): Evidence for the origin of definite article reduction in Northern English |
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| Room 208 | Silvia Dal Negro (U Piemonte Orientale): ‘Ma, weiss nit’: Discourse markers in a context of language shift and death | ||
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17:30
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Auditorium | Sali Tagliamonte (U York): Variation in the English definite article system: Evidence form Northeast English | |
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| Room 208 | Agurtzane Elordui (Euskal Herriko U): The influence of language contact in the process of language loss | ||
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18:00 | End of sessions | |
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Poster Sessions: |
| Aquiles Iglesias, José Ignacio Castaño & Raúl Rojas: Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) for Spanish-speaking children | |
| Celia Pollán: Interaction of factors in the variationist methodology | |
| Noemí Argerich, Melina Aparici, Joan Perera, Elisa Rosado & Liliana Tolchinsky: Lexical variation in different ages, genres and modalities | |
| Luis Escoriza Morera: Frequency of use as a criterion to establish lexical variants | |
| Necdet Osam: The change of Turkish at lexical level: A historical study | |
| Danijela Stojanovi´c: Infinitive/da+present variation in Serbian and Croatian: Evidence from child grammars | |
| Yolanda Sánchez Mateo: On the use of swearing in English: An empirical study | |
| Virginia Hill & France Martineau: Infinitive subordinators in Acadian French | |
| Gregory Garretson: Spanish word order 'variability' and information packaging |
| Day 2 (Friday, June 30) |
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9:30 | Auditorium | Stefan Grondelaers & Dirk Geeraerts (K U Leuven): Colloquialisms in on line conversations: comparing Belgium and The Netherlands |
| Room 108 | David Heap (U Western Ontario): Spanish object clitic variation and feature geometry | ||
| Room 208 | Sarah N. Dart (Macalester C): Geographic and individual phonetic variation in Corbières Occitan | ||
| 10:00 | Auditorium | ||
| Room 108 | Elisa Rosado, Melina Aparici, Noemí Argerich, Joan Perera & Liliana Tolchinsky (U Barcelona): Spanish se as a means of depersonalization across ages, genres and modalities | ||
| Room 208 | Frank Schlichting (Tübingen U): Does the prosody change with changes in segmental phonology? --Turn-taking in a German dialect | ||
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10:30 | Break | |
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11:00 | Auditorium | Invited Speaker: Humberto López Morales (U Puerto Rico): Syntactic variation, revisited |
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13:00 | Lunch break | |
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15:00 | Auditorium | Mario Cal Varela (U Santiago): /i:/ and /I/ in Gibraltar English: A sociolinguistic analysis of interference from Spanish |
| Room 108 | Csilla Bartha (Eötvös Loránd U) & Anna Borbély (Hungarian Acad of Sciences): Folk evaluation of "Proper Hungarian": Evidence from the Survey of Spoken Hungarian | ||
| Room 208 | Raphael Berthele (U Fribourg): On the history of European sociolinguistic concepts: A continual search for mechanical solidarity | ||
| 15:30 | Auditorium | Hans Van de Velde (U Libre Bruxelles) & Roeland van Hout (U NIjmegen): The diphthongization of /e./, /o/ and /ø./ in Dutch: a peripheral phenomenon | |
| Room 108 | Marilena Karyolemou & Pavlos Pavlou (U Cyprus): Language attitudes and assessment of salient variables in a bi-dialectal speech community | ||
| Room 208 | J. Clancy Clements (Indiana U) & David Sutcliffe (U Pompeu Fabra): Addressing long-standing issues in language variation | ||
| 16:00 | Auditorium | Marc van Oostendorp (R Netherlands Acad of A & S): Betuwe Dutch vowel lengthening and phonological theory | |
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| Room 208 | Naomi Nagy (U New Hampshire): Variation in the grammar (book): The sociogrammarian’s dilemma | ||
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16:30 | Break | |
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17:00 | Auditorium | Antonio Romano (U Stendhal): Convergence and divergence of prosodic subsystems of the dialects spoken in the Salento (Italy)-- a linguistic and instrumental approach |
| Room 108 | Barbara A. Fennell & Lesley Jane Black (U Aberdeen): Sources of lexical variation in the German of returning settlers | ||
| Room 208 | Alain Thomas (U Guelph): Can Southern French pronunciation resist the influence of Standard French? | ||
| 17:30 | Auditorium | Julie Auger (Indiana U): Phonology, variation and prosodic structure: word-final epenthesis in Vimeu Picard | |
| Room 108 | Hilde van Aken (Free U Amsterdam): Measuring lexical variation and convergence/divergence in standard Dutch: A corpus-based study of prepositions (CONDIV project) | ||
| Room 208 | Unn Røyneland (U Oslo): Measuring lexical variation and convergence/divergence in standard Dutch: A corpus-based study of verbs | ||
| 18:00 | Auditorium | Jeff Tennant (U Western Ontario): Speech rate and French schwa | |
| Room 108 | Vicky Van Den Heede (U Gent): Methodological problems and possible solutions in a study of dialect levelling | ||
| Room 208 | Paul Kerswill & Ann Williams (U Reading): Dialect levelling in England: internal vs. external factors | ||
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18:30 | End of sessions | |
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Poster Sessions: |
| Elena Bedisti: Social class differences in the use of stigmatized forms by school children in Greece | |
| M. Isabel González Cruz & Carmen Isabel Luján García: English borrowings in contemporary Canarian Spanish: Uses and attitudes | |
| Mark Patrick Logue: Obsolete Occitan loanwords of the French language | |
| Anna Borbély: Determinants of intralanguage codeswitching in the community of Romanians living in Hungary | |
| Carmen Pena Díaz: Code-mixing between trilinguals: A case study | |
| Maria Pilar Safont Jordà: The influence of previously learnt second languages in L3 English oral production | |
| Natalia Glukhova: The Mari language territory variations | |
| Claudia Kunschak: Language planning abroad: Promoting the Austrian variety of German internationally | |
| Francisco Moreno Fernández, Ana M. Cestero Mancera, Isabel Molina Martos & Florentino Paredes García: Project for the sociolinguistic study of Spanish of Spain in the Community of Madrid | |
| Olga Ozolina: Diversité linguistique et citoyenneté démocratique: politique linguistique éducative en Lettonie |
| Day 3 (Saturday, July 1) |
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9:00 | Auditorium | Inmaculada Cuevas Molina & Matilde Vida Castro (U Málaga): Corpora creation and stylistic variation: Two methodological approaches to southern Spanish varieties |
| Room 108 | Célia Regina dos Santos Lopes (UF Rio Janeiro): Grammaticalization of a gente in Portuguese: long and short term real time | ||
| Room 208 | Peter Trudgill (U Fribourg), Elizabeth Gordon, Gillian Lewis & Margaret Mclagan (U Canetrbury): Determinism in new-dialect formation and the genesis of New Zealand English | ||
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9:30 | Auditorium | Felipe Pieras (U Alberta): Catalan dark /l/ in Palma: The social interpretation of a change in apparent time |
| Room 108 | Inge Callebaut (Vrije U Brussel): About the thens and thoughs, at least in Dutch | ||
| Room 208 | Angel G. Angelov (St. Kliment Ohridski U Sofia): The political border as a factor for language divergence | ||
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10:00 | Auditorium | Stig Örjan Ohlsson (Tartu U): R-variation in Europe, with special reference to Norway and Sweden |
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| Room 208 | Alexander D. Hoyt (U Zagreb): Change and variation in Zagreb Croatian | ||
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10:30 | Break | |
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11:00 | Auditorium | Invited Speaker: Peter Auer (U Freiburg): A European perspective on social dialectology |
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13:00 | End of sessions | |
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