Chris Lee, Lee-Ann Vidal Covas, & Kevin Samejon

NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation)

BU represented at the 52nd annual NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation)!

From left to right: Chris Lee, Lee-Ann Vidal CovasDanielle Dionne (alumna), Kevin Samejon

Chris Lee: “Regional variation among Standard Mandarin listeners’ perceptual cue weighting for prosodic focus marking: Comparing Beijing, Jilu, and Zhongyuan Mandarin”

Lee-Ann Vidal Covas: “How Salience Influences Dialectal Persistence and Covariation: Insights from Boston’s Spanish-Speaking Community”

Kevin Samejon: “Post-colonial Englishes in Asian societies: The case of variable word-final /z/ production in of Philippine English”