A kick-off seminar will be held 9th of November 2023 at the auditorium at the National and University Library of Iceland in Reykjavík.
Program:
Chair: Kristján Árnason
- 10:30-11:00. Finnur Friðriksson og Ásgrímur Angantýsson. Regional pronunciation, attitudes and real-time change: Latest developments. (Click for the presentation on pdf)
- 11:00-11:30. Margrét Guðmundsdóttir. Lifespan changes: A changing status of a local variant.
- 11:30-12:00. Stefanie Bade. How can folk linguistics contribute to investigations of L1 and L2 accents?
- 12:00-13:00. Lunch.
Chair: Ari Páll Kristinsson
- 13:00-13:30. Ása Bergný Tómasdóttir og Salome Lilja Sigurðardóttir. Conducting interviews with participants from Björn Guðfinnsson’s study.
- 13:30-14:00. Eva Hrund Sigurjónsdóttir. Debuccalization in Icelandic: the distribution and nature of a new phonological variant.
- 14:00-14:30. Coffee break.
Chair: Rósa Signý Gísladóttir
- 14:30-15:00. Eva Sundgren. Eskilstuna revisited: Variation, stability and change in real time – Experiences from collection and analysis of data.
- 15:00-15:30. Nicole Dehé. Icelandic prosodic phonology: previous research and available data.
- 15:30-16:00 Kaffihlé.
- 16:00-16:30. Gunnar Ólafur Hansson. Phonological variation as a window on covert structure.
- 16:30-17:00. Laurel MacKenzie. Style and the lifespan.
