ADSRI1: American Dialect Society Research Incubator

We are excited to announce our first ADS Research Incubator, an online opportunity to present work in progress for discussion. Our aim is ultimately to encourage and provide feedback on work that can later be presented at the ADS Annual Meeting. While the Research Incubator is designed for early-career researchers, especially students, all are welcome to submit. The forum is designed to be collaborative and provide rich feedback at every stage from initial abstract submission through the 20-minute presentation. Each accepted presenter will have the opportunity to work with an ADS mentor or a colleague to brainstorm and converse with them to develop the presentation. At the incubator, sets of three presentations will be followed by an hour-long discussion period where the audience will actively help presenters sharpen their work and explore future directions. We invite presentations on any aspect of any language variety used or found in North America, associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic, and in the Caribbean Basin. We also invite work on the language varieties that influence them: spoken, signed, or written, modern or historical, Indigenous or introduced, common or rare. We encourage topics related to lexicography, linguistic atlas projects, linguistic landscapes, language and society, and public language-awareness programs.