Talks
| Date | Presentation |
| 2026 | Owens, Kaitlyn and Monica Nesbitt. Negative evaluation as a precursor to chain shift reversal: An apparent-time study of the Northern Cities Shift in Michigan English. American Dialect Society Annual Meeting. January 8-11 in New Orleans, Louisianna. |
| 2026 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Language ideology as a predictor of sociophonetic variation: Evidence from /ʎ/ in Breton. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. January 8-11 in New Orleans, Louisianna. |
| 2025 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Phonemic representations in variable communities: Individual grammar formation in native and non-native Breton speakers. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 53. November 5-7 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
| 2025 | Lamontagne, Jeffrey, Kaitlyn Owens, and Jane Gilbert. Perceptibility of prominence in French: Weight, cue weighting or “stress deafness”. 30th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference. October 10-11 in Bloomington, Indiana. |
| 2025 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Variable grammars in language revitalization: A long-term priming study of /ʎ/ in Breton. 30th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference. October 10-11 in Bloomington, Indiana. |
| 2025 | Owens, Kaitlyn and Monica Nesbitt. Undoing a chain shift: The impact of attitudes on Northern Cities Shift reversal. 2025 Annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. June 3-5 in Montréal, Québec. |
| 2025 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Old variants and new speakers: The influence of attitudes on Breton /ʎ/ production. Department of French and Italian 2025 Graduate Conference. April 4-5 in Bloomington, Indiana. |
| 2025 | Tézil, David and Kaitlyn Owens. Lexifier distance conditions phonological variation between /r/ and /w/ in Haitian Creole.Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. January 9-12, 2025, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 2025 | Morgan, Madison and Kaitlyn Owens. Dying languages do not always show phonological simplification or convergence: Evidence from nasal vowel phonemes in Frenchville French. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. January 9-12, 2025, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 2024 | Owens, Kaitlyn and Monica Nesbitt. Changing boundaries: Evidence from Northern Cities Shift categorical perception in Michigan. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 52, November 7-9, 2024, in Miami, Florida. |
| 2024 | Tézil, David and Kaitlyn Owens. Distance from the lexifier as a predictor of variation in creoles: Evidence from /r/ and /w/ alternation in Haitian Creole. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 52, November 7-9, 2024, in Miami, Florida. |
| 2024 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Now playing: A corpus of Quebec French music designed for sociolinguistic research. 16th International American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference. September 13-15, 2024, in Eugene, Oregon (USA). |
| 2024 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Est-ce qu’on comprend les personnes qu’on n’aime pas ? : Le lien entre les attitudes et l’intelligibilité en français laurentien. Les français d’ici 2024. June 10-12, 2024, in Shippagan, New Brunswick (Canada). |
| 2024 | Lamontagne, Jeffrey, Kaitlyn Owens, Dav Rosychuk, and Anne-José Villeneuve. Notre registre quand on enregistre : La diphtongaison en français québécois télévisé. Le français parlé dans les médias : pratiques langagières non standardisées, attitudes et représentations dans les formats médiatiques oraux associés au divertissement at 91ième Congrès ACFAS. May 13-15, 2024, in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada). |
| 2024 | Owens, Kaitlyn, Monica Nesbitt, and Jeffrey Lamontagne. Dialect attitudes influence perceptions of intelligibility in varieties of French. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. January 4-7, 2024, in New York City, New York (USA). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn, Monica Nesbitt, and Jeffrey Lamontagne. Investigating the link between intelligibility and attitudes towards varieties of French. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 51, October 13th-15th, in New York City, New York (USA). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Dans un autre monde : Dialectal trait accommodation across Céline Dion’s music career. Change and Variation in Canada 12, June 3rd-4th, in Toronto, Ontario (Canada). |
| 2023 | Lamontagne, Jeffrey, Kaitlyn Owens, Dav Rosychuk, and Anne-José Villeneuve. /ʁ/ all lengthening consonants created equal in Québec French? Annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, May 31st-June 2nd, in Toronto, Ontario (Canada). |
| 2023 | Lamontagne, Jeffrey, Dav Rosychuk, Kaitlyn Owens, and Anne-José Villeneuve. Au-delà de la morphosyntaxe, la variation phonique en français québécois soutenu. Décrire le français montréalais au 21e siècle : enjeux théoriques et méthodologiques colloquium at 90e Congrès ACFAS. May 11-12, 2023, in Montréal, Québec (Canada). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn and Jeffrey Lamontagne. L’influence de la stigmatisation dialectale sur la musique Québécoise. 90e Congrès ACFAS. May 8-12, 2023, in Montréal, Québec (Canada). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Laxed standards: Coarticulatory effects on high vowel laxing in Québec French. Department of French and Italian 2023 Graduate Conference. March 31-April 1, 2023, in Bloomington, Indiana (USA). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Language-internal evidence for resisting contact-induced change in Gascon and Languedocien. 47th Penn Linguistics Conference. March 18-19, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn and Alexandra O’Neil. The role of perception in isiZulu loanwords: A case study of English s-clusters. 15th Annual Meeting of Illinois Language and Linguistics Society. March 3-4, 2023, in Urbana, Illinois (USA). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Keep your voice down: Support for a typology of affrication from Quebec French. 15th Annual Meeting of Illinois Language and Linguistics Society. March 3-4, 2023, in Urbana, Illinois (USA). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Doesn’t everyone want to be popular?: Variable affrication in Quebec French music. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2023. March 2-3, 2023, in Urbana, Illinois (USA). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Musical genres exhibit distinct sociophonetic targets in Quebec French. Linguistic Society of America 2023 Annual Meeting. January 5-8, 2023, in Denver, CO (USA). |
| 2022 | Owens, Kaitlyn. In the right place at the right time: Effects of codas on laxing in Quebec French. 27th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 27). October 7-8, 2022, in St. Louis, MO (USA). |
| 2022 | Owens, Kaitlyn and Jeffrey Lamontagne. Sa muse s’amuse : La modération de traits laurentiens dans la musique de Roxane Bruneau. Les français d’ici 2022. June 15-17, 2022, in Chicoutimi, Québec (Canada). |
| 2022 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Jazzing up grammar: Introducing syntactic forms through music. Indiana University Foreign/Second Language Share Fair. April 8, 2022, in Bloomington, IN (USA). |
| 2021 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Une comparaison linguistique de Le Petit Prince par Antoine de Saint- Exupéry en français et en occitan: A linguistic comparison of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in French and Occitan. Truman State University’s 34th Annual Undergraduate Student Research Conference. April 22, 2021, in Kirksville, MO (USA). |
Posters
| Date | Presentation |
| 2025 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Sticking with tradition: The role of attitudes on Breton phonological feature use. Annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. June 3-5 in Montréal, Québec. |
| 2025 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Do speakers’ beliefs about language impact the variants they produce?: Investigating style shifting in the Northern Cities Shift. 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. May 19-23 in New Orleans, Louisianna. |
| 2025 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Both phonetic and morphosyntactic variables exhibit gradient stylistic effects. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. January 9-12, 2025, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 2024 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Investigating the impact of language regard on language change: Evidence from the Northern Cities shift in Michigan English. 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference. October 4-5, 2024, in Urbana, Illinois. |
| 2024 | Morgan, Madison and Kaitlyn Owens. Phoneme transmission in obsolescent language communities: Evidence from Frenchville. 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference. October 4-5, 2024, in Urbana, Illinois. |
| 2024 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Musical genres as registers: Future tense selection in Laurentian French. 2024 Annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. June 17-19, 2024, in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada). |
| 2024 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Losing ground?: Towards a description of palatal lateral variation in Breton. 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. May 13-17, 2024, in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Simplifying complexities: Analyzing palatal lateral change in Occitan as coda simplification. 2023 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP). October 20-22, 2023. [virtual]. |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Solving complex problems: Analyzing palatal lateral change in Occitan. 28th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference. October 20-21, 2023, in West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Re-evaluating the role of duration in Laurentian French high vowel laxing. Annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, May 31st-June 2nd, in Toronto, Ontario (Canada). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn. Duration impedes loss of the palatal lateral in Languedocien as compared to Gascon. 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. May 8-12, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois (USA). |
| 2023 | Owens, Kaitlyn and Jeffrey Lamontagne. Community and lifespan changes in music: Sociophonetic variation in Quebec French. Linguistic Society of America 2023 Annual Meeting. January 5-8, 2023, in Denver, CO (USA). |
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