Several Chicagoans presented at NWAV 40 at Georgetown University, Oct 27-31.

• Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (BA/MA ’98) and Abby Walker: Vocalic accommodation in a cross dialectal shadowing task
• Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (BA/MA ’98): Measuring implicit dialect awareness using the IAT
• Salikoko Mufwene: The Emergence of Complexity in Language: An Evolutionary Perspective
• Morgan Sonderegger, Andrea Beltrama, Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Erin Franklin, Brett Kirken, Jackson Lee, Maria Nelson, Krista Nicoletto, Talia Penslar, Hannah Provenza, Natalie Rothfels, Maximilian Bane, Peter Graff and Jason Riggle: Coronal stop deletion on reality TV
• Alan Yu, Carissa Abrego-Collier and Morgan Sonderegger: Attitudinal effects in phonetic convergence