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New Ways of Analyzing Variation – Asia Pacific 3 NEW WAYS OF ANALYZING VARIATION – ASIA PACIFIC 3 Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand 1-3 May 2014 WELCOME TO NEW WAYS OF ANALYSING VARIATION ASIA-PACIFIC 3 We are delighted to welcome you to the third meeting of the NWAV Asia-Pacific conference series, held 1-3 May 2014, in Wellington, New Zealand. The conference is hosted by the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies and the Deaf Studies Research Unit of Victoria University of Wellington (Te Whare Wānanga o te ŪpoKo o te Ika a Māui). We have an exciting conference scheduled, including three terrific plenary speaKers and over 35 individual paper presentations. This booklet has been compiled to help you navigate both the conference and the city of Wellington. Many of our delegates have come quite a distance to be here, and we hope that you’ll be able to maKe the most of your trip, and get to see some of this beautiful city while you’re here. We hope you enjoy the conference! About NWAV-AP3 NWAV Asia-Pacific endeavours to bring together research that is firmly based on empirical data with an emphasis on the quantitative analysis of variation and change. Its priorities are to promote and showcase research on: (1) the indigenous languages of the Asia-Pacific region, and (2) restructured or contact varieties that have emerged in the Asia-Pacific region. This year, we are particularly pleased to have a number of presentations on the sign languages of Asia and the Pacific. Other areas of focus include real-time/apparent-time language change, dialect variation and change, speech communities, multilingualism, urbanisation and migration, sociophonetics, style-shifting, language/dialect contact, variation in minority languages, variation in acquisition, perceptual dialectology, and other topics that enrich our understandings of the region and its indigenous languages. At the first meeting of the conference, NWAV AP established a tradition of showcasing the innovative descriptive, philological, historical and socially informed research being conducted by emerging and established scholars in some of the world's most fertile arenas of language and dialect contact. CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE NWAV-AP INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE Miriam Meyerhoff YoshiyuKi Asahi Evan Hazenberg Miriam Meyerhoff Sasha Calhoun Victoria Rau Rachel McKee Shobha Satyanath Elizabeth Pearce James Stanford 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Welcome to the conference 1 Conference locations 3 Schedule 4 Abstracts Plenary speakers Michael Dunn 7 Lisa Lim 8 Adam Schembri 9 Papers (alphabetical by author) 10 GettinG around WellinGton 49 Places to eat, drink, and be merry 50 Note paGes 55 2 CONFERENCE LOCATIONS Conference hotel Rydges, Featherston Street Rydges is conveniently located in the Central Business District of Wellington, and is a short walk from the conference site at the Pipitea campus of Victoria University of Wellington. Conference site The conference’s parallel sessions will be held in two buildings, directly across the street from each other: Rutherford House • presentation room: RHLT2 Government Building • presentation room: GBG04 Plenaries, breaks, lunches and the reception will all be held in Rutherford House. Conference dinner The conference dinner will be held at Wharewaka, on the waterfront, close to the Te Papa museum. It’s about a 15-20 minute walk from the Pipitea campus. If the weather is nice, a walk along the waterfront is highly recommended, but if it’s rainy and windy, the waterfront can be particularly exposed, so an alternative walking route has also been provided. 3 DAY 1: THURSDAY 1 MAY 8.30-9.00 Registration – Rutherford House 9.00-9.15 Welcome – Rutherford House 9.15-10.45 Plenary: ADAM SCHEMBRI [Chair: David McKee] – Rutherford House LT2 10.45-11.15 Break – Rutherford House RUTHERFORD HOUSE LT2 GOVERNMENT BUILDING G04 Session: Sign Languages 1 Session: Formal/typological Chair: Adam Schembri Chair: Elizabeth Pearce 11.15-11.45 Palfreyman Chen Grazing in new pastures: Integrating Minimal Word Effect in Northern Bunun multiple analytic practices on Dialects sociolinguistic variation in Indonesian sign language varieties. 11.45-12.15 Gruber Reid Variations of the hand and brow: Patterns Morphological Instability: Accounting for of non-verbal communication in New Variability in the Forms of Proto-Malayo- Zealand Polynesian Pronouns 12.15-12.45 McKee & McKee Sociolinguistic variation in use of ‘brow- raise’ in New Zealand Sign Language 12.45-2.30 Lunch + Asia-Pacific Language Variation Journal – meet the editors Rutherford House Session: MoDelling 1 Session: Lexical Chair: Sasha Calhoun Chair: Felicity Meakins 2.30-3.00 Yang, Stanford & Yang Meyerhoff An apparent-time study of tone change in Borrowing in apparent time progress in Lalo 3.00-3.30 Chuang, Yueh-Chin & Feng-Fan Huang & Rau When Hokkien meets Malay: synchronic Sociolinguistic Variation in Chinese Near- reorganizations of tonal inventories in Synonyms Penang Hokkien 3.30-4.00 Break – Rutherford House Session: English contact Session: Migration Chair: John Mansfield Chair: Chie Adachi 4.00-4.30 Marsden Strycharz-Banaś Contemporary influences on dialect change Saying ‘no’ In a Community of Practice: in New Zealand English Standard and dialectal negation among Japanese immigrant women in The Netherlands. 4.30-5.00 Liu Asahi Variation in code-switching in Chinese Legacy of Gifu and Tosa dialects in a small discourse among 1st generation Chinese coast town of Tokoro in Hokkaido immigrants: the influence of social variables 5.00-5.30 Hansen Edwards Sociolinguistic Variation in Asian Englishes: The Case of /t,d/ Deletion 5.30-7.00 Reception: sponsored by the Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) Mezzanine foyer, Rutherford House 4 DAY 2: FRIDAY 2 MAY RUTHERFORD HOUSE LT2 GOVERNMENT BUILDING G04 Session: Japanese structures Session: New variation Chair: Yoshi Asahi Chair: Katie Drager 9.00-9.30 Heffernan & Hiratsuka Cottet & Turpin The Collapse and Replacement of the Lectal variation in the pronunciation of Verbal Negative Mode System in Kansai prestopped nasal phonemes in Kaytetye Spoken Japanese 9.30-10.00 Vance Meakins The Actuation of the Shift from Word- The tyranny of variation: Mixed languages Medial [ŋ] to [ɡ] in Tokyo Japanese and perpetually emergent grammars 10.00-10.30 Sherwood Satyanath Social Pressures Condition ranuki in the Studying a restructured variety in a Potential Form of Japanese Verbs multilingual context 10.30-11.00 Break – Rutherford House Session: Ethnology Session: Formal phon. Chair: Anna Strycharz-Banaś Chair: Sophie Barr 11.00-11.30 Adachi Calhoun New ways of analysing compliment Changing patterns in the use of prosody in responses - a case of Japanese young Samoan speaker 11.30-12.00 Miller Brown & Mandal Exogamy Multilingualism and Rhythmic Variation in Urama Microvariation: Language Ecology in Bimadbn Village, Papua New Guinea 12.00-12.30 Fleming Sano Styling Linguistic Repertoires among South Lexical Frequency and Applicability of Asian Students in Hong Kong Rendaku, and its Productivity 12.30-2.00 Lunch – Rutherford House 2.00-3.30 Plenary: MICHAEL DUNN [Chair: Jim Stanford] – Rutherford House LT2 3.30-4.00 Break – Rutherford House Session: Attention & orientation Session: 3rd wave Japanese Chair: Victoria Rau Chair: Evan Hazenberg 4.00-4.30 Clothier Adachi & Strycharz-Banaś Adapting the Ethnic Orientation Revisiting the ‘status’ in complimenting – Questionnaire for use in a sociophonetic senpai, kohai and the power of power investigation of ethnolectal variation in Melbourne 4.30-5.00 Away, Britton, Dailey, Drager, Hamer, Kroo Kim, Kirtley, Lee Reevaluating `Gendered Language' Among Factors Influencing the Pronunciation of Japanese Sooshokukeidanshi `Herbivore Hawaiian Place Names Men' 6.30- Conference dinner – Wharewaka, Wellington (see map on p3) 5 DAY 3: SATURDAY 3 MAY 9.00-9.30 Business meeting 9.30-11.00 Plenary: LISA LIM [Chair: Miriam Meyerhoff] – Rutherford House LT2 11.00-11.30 Break – Rutherford House RUTHERFORD HOUSE LT2 GOVERNMENT BUILDING G04 Session: Sign Language 2 Session: Youth Chair: David Mckee Chair: Emily Greenbank 11.30-12.00 Siu Michael Sociolinguistic Variation in Hong Kong Sign Two Phonologies: A Case Study of Delhi Language (HKSL) born Malayalee Children 12.00-12.30 Sagara & Palfreyman Mansfield Counting the difference: variation in the Phonetic variation corresponding to age number systems of Japanese, Taiwan and and ethnolinguistic group in Murrinh Patha South Korean Sign Language 12.30-1.00 Sze, Xiao, Wong Lexical variations in signs of sexual behaviour in Hong Kong Sign Language 1.00-2.00 Lunch – Rutherford House Session: MoDelling 2 Session: Surveys Chair: TBA Chair: TBA 2.00-2.30 Watson, King, Keegan, Maclagan, Nambu, Asahi, Aizawa Harlow On the Change of Allophones of /g/ in Measuring Moving Monophthongs in Japanese: A quantitative analysis based on Māori large-scale surveys 2.30-3.00 Greenhill Zhao Quantifying the variation in rates of The Changed and the Unchanged: A language diversification. language attitude survey on neutral tone variation in Modern Standard Chinese 6 USING PHYLOGENIES TO EXPLAIN SEMANTIC VARIATION MICHAEL DUNN [email protected] Semantics is one of the hard problems in the study of language variation, and the difficulty in establishing semantic equivalence cross-linguistically has meant that variationists have paid less attention to semantics than to other linguistic domains. The exceptions are in domains such kinship, colour terminologies, or folk taxomony, which can be studied in terms of an 'etic grid' - language neutral divisions of the semantic space into sets of logically possible dimensions. Within semantic typology (see, for example Bowerman and Choi 2001) this has led to the development of an empirical tradition which uses non-linguistic stimuli to elicit extensional semantics. My own work takes a phylogenetic perspective on such structured domains in order to examine causal processes in semantic variation. The phylogenetic comparative methods (not related to our linguistic Comparative Method) are a set of tools for understanding diversity, including semantic diversity, through modelling its evolution in time and space.
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