{"654243":{"#nid":"654243","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Glass Presents at Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELelia Glass, coordinator of the linguistics program and assistant professor of linguistics in the School of Modern Languages, presented two research projects at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/8af23dda-e19a-5930-82e7-c057ef649a38\u0022\u003ELinguistics Society of America\u003C\/a\u003E (LSA) Annual Meeting held from Jan. 6-9, 2022.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first project analyzes transcribed sociolinguistic data from 106 Black and White speakers from Georgia born between 1887-2004 and raises questions about the relation between Southern and African American vowel systems as well as the decline of region-specific White accents observed across the U.S. Titled \u0026ldquo;Perspectives on Georgia vowels: From legacy to synchrony,\u0026rdquo; the research was conducted and presented with Joseph Stanley, professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University; Jon Forrest, assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Georgia; and Margaret Renwick, associate professor of linguistics at the University of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second presentation highlighted Glass\u0026rsquo; paper \u0026ldquo;Quantifying Relational Nouns in Corpora.\u0026rdquo; In the paper, Glass compares nouns and uses of the same noun in different web communities and presents evidence that \u0026ldquo;a noun is more often used as relational when human interaction with its referent is more conventional\u0026rdquo; and how nouns reflect the conventions of people who use them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe hybrid meeting was held virtually and in Washington, D.C. International linguistics scholars from Georg-August University G\u0026ouml;ttingen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National University of Singapore, University of Queensland, Yale University, and more were among the presenters. The meeting was the 96\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E Annual Meeting for the LSA.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The hybrid meeting was held virtually and in Washington, D.C. and was the 96th Annual Meeting for the LSA."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2022-01-10 20:47:41","changed_gmt":"2022-01-10 21:04:10","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-01-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-01-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"654236":{"id":"654236","type":"image","title":"Lelia Glass Presents at the 96th LSA Annual Meeting.","body":null,"created":"1641846254","gmt_created":"2022-01-10 20:24:14","changed":"1641846254","gmt_changed":"2022-01-10 20:24:14","alt":"","file":{"fid":"248135","name":"Glass @ LSA.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Glass%20%40%20LSA.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Glass%20%40%20LSA.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":163987,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Glass%20%40%20LSA.jpeg?itok=gmju7F-z"}}},"media_ids":["654236"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"28061","name":"Linguistics"},{"id":"189660","name":"lsa"},{"id":"182089","name":"Lelia Glass"},{"id":"3643","name":"Modern Languages"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECassidy Chreene Whittle\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Literature, Media, and Communication | School of Modern Languages\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:cwhittle9@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecwhittle9@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}