The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity

Wellsprings Talks

2016
Response to Trudgill	Ruth Singer	Canberra, 1 February
Regional variation in Samoan: If not why not?	Hedvig Skirgard	Canberra, 1 February
Complexity in Small Languages: What is the evidence?	Peter Trudgill	Canberra, 1 February
Sociolinguistics of Sui Clans and other Communities of Descent	James Stanford	Canberra, 2 February
Investigating Language Variation and Change in Small Communities	James Stanford	Canberra, 4 February
Complexity in small languages: How can we account for it?	Peter Trudgill	Canberra, 4 February
Quantitative variationist sociolinguistics and Asia/Pacific languages	James Stanford	Canberra, 5 February
2017
Investigating small-scale multilingual communities: an ethnographic perspective from the Vaupés (Northwest Amazonia) (Slides)	Pattie Epps	Canberra, 13 February
1. Big languages in small communities: a variationist sociolinguistic approach to language contact and change (Slides)	Shana Poplack	Canberra, 14 February
Investigating small-scale multilingual communities: a comparative view (Slides)	Pattie Epps	Canberra, 15 February
Contact-induced change in the wild: Using linguistic variation to detect, analyze and distinguish it from internal evolution (Slides)	Shana Poplack	Canberra, 16 February