Proceedings of Methods XVI

Yoshiyuki Asahi is an associate professor of sociolinguistics at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. He holds a PhD in Japanese linguistics from Osaka University. He works on language variation and change through dialect contact and published several books on these topics.

• Katharina Pabst, Lex Konnelly, Melanie Rothlisberger, and Sali A. Tagliamonte: Individual- vs. community-level variation: New evidence from variable (t,d) in Canadian English ● Akiko Okumura: Variation and change in a Japanese new town: Production and perception of variable (ng) ● Hajime Oshima: Innovative possessive marker in the Burgenland dialect of Hungarian in Austria ● Chingduang Yurayong: Postposed demonstrative: An innovation from contact between North Russian and Central Veps dialects ● Jos Swanenberg: Does dialect loss give more or less variation?: On dialect leveling and language creativity ● Kazuko Matsumoto: Nativisation in adolescent Palauan English: A discourse-pragmatic perspective ● Rika Ito: But I’m embarrassed!: The representation of Hokkaido dialect in the Japanese anime, Silver Spoon ● Keiko Hirano and David Britain: Accommodation and social networks: Grammatical variation among expatriate English speakers in Japan ● Heike Wiese: Language situations: A method for capturing variation within speakers’ repertoires ● Kevin Heffernan: The diffusion of lexical bundles from an urban center to a rural community in Japan ● Harumi Mitsui, Kanetaka Yarimizu, and Motoei Sawaki: The structure of diversified language usage in metropolitan Tokyo: Analyses using large-scale database for word accent ● Mihoko Kubota: Different paths in the acquisition of Japanese negative words meaning prohibition: Dame in the standard form and akan in the western dialect ● Kazuko Tanabe: Analysis of the transmission of reference honorifics in the Japanese household ● Salvatore Carlino: The state of dialect usage and transmission in Iheya ● Marjatta Palander: Change in spoken Finnish: The dialect of 7-year-olds of two generations ● Brian Jose: A real-time perspective on the Southern vowel shift in Kentuckiana ● Nobuko Kibe, Kumiko Sato, Taro Nakanishi, and Kohei Nakazawa: Corpus-based study of Japanese dialects: Regional differences in accusative case marking system ● Hitoshi Nikaido: The speaking style of elderly assembly members in the Fukuoka prefectural assembly ● Kenjiro Matsuda: The birth and diffusion of group languages in the National Diet ● Suguru Kawase: Regional differences in conjunctives in the minutes of local assemblies ● Stephen Levey and Heike Pichler: Revisiting transatlantic relatives: Evidence from British and Canadian English ● Martin Schweinberger: Using semantic vector space models to investigate lexical replacement: A corpus-based study of ongoing changes in intensifier use ● Chihkai Lin: Pazeh-Kaxabu affinity revisited: from a corpus-based approach ● Yuji Kawaguchi: Standardization and distance: A case study of the linguistic atlas of Champagne and Brie (ALCB) ● Jung-min Li and Hsiao-feng Cheng: A geolinguistic study on Taiwanese in the west coast of Taiwan using ‘Glottograms’ ● Hiroyuki Suzuki and Lozong Lhamo: ‘Where’ as a negative prefix in Khams Tibetan: A geolinguistic approach towards a grammaticalisation process