New Ways of Analysing Variation
Asia Pacific 9 / Hong Kong
Keynote Speakers
Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh)
Lauren Hall-Lew is Professor and Personal Chair of Sociolinguistics in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, especially phonetic variation and change, social meaning, and their intersection with identity and social factors. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University, and her research spans variation in vowel, consonant, and prosodic production among different social communities. Hall-Lew’s work also engages with broader methodological and theoretical issues in variationist sociolinguistics.
Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania)
Meredith Tamminga is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Language Variation & Cognition Lab. She completed her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014, training in variationist sociolinguistic field methods and now working at the intersection of sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Her research explores how sociolinguistic variation is mentally represented and processed, how experimental and naturalistic data can be integrated across diverse populations, and how individual and group-level linguistic behavior interact in shaping language patterns. She also investigates variation and change in sign languages, notably through the Philadelphia Signs Project. Tamminga’s work has been published in leading journals such as Language Variation and Change, Journal of Phonetics, and Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and she serves as an Associate Editor at Glossa Psycholinguistics.
Early Career Keynote Speaker
Tsung-Lun Alan Wan (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
Tsung-Lun Alan Wan is Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. His research centers on sociolinguistic theory and social meaning, including indexicality, identity politics, disability, and linguistic contact phenomena. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, where he explored sociophonetic variation and deaf accents, and has worked on languages including Taiwan Mandarin, Hokkien, and Singapore English. Wan’s work also engages with issues of race, disability, and marginalized language practices within sociolinguistics.
Keynote Speakers
Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh)
Lauren Hall-Lew is Professor and Personal Chair of Sociolinguistics in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, especially phonetic variation and change, social meaning, and their intersection with identity and social factors. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University, and her research spans variation in vowel, consonant, and prosodic production among different social communities. Hall-Lew’s work also engages with broader methodological and theoretical issues in variationist sociolinguistics.
Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania)
Meredith Tamminga is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Language Variation & Cognition Lab. She completed her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014, training in variationist sociolinguistic field methods and now working at the intersection of sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Her research explores how sociolinguistic variation is mentally represented and processed, how experimental and naturalistic data can be integrated across diverse populations, and how individual and group-level linguistic behavior interact in shaping language patterns. She also investigates variation and change in sign languages, notably through the Philadelphia Signs Project. Tamminga’s work has been published in leading journals such as Language Variation and Change, Journal of Phonetics, and Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and she serves as an Associate Editor at Glossa Psycholinguistics.
Early Career Keynote Speaker
Tsung-Lun Alan Wan (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
Tsung-Lun Alan Wan is Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. His research centers on sociolinguistic theory and social meaning, including indexicality, identity politics, disability, and linguistic contact phenomena. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, where he explored sociophonetic variation and deaf accents, and has worked on languages including Taiwan Mandarin, Hokkien, and Singapore English. Wan’s work also engages with issues of race, disability, and marginalized language practices within sociolinguistics.
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