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.

The deadline for abstracts is Friday, August 21, 11:59 pm Central. Presenters must be ADS members by the time of the Incubator (ADS memberships are only $25 for students). Anybody can attend.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words as a PDF (with a second page for data and references) will be submitted, reviewed, and processed for the Incubator via the EasyChair system using this website.

Only include the title of the study at the top of the abstract. Do not include your name or other identifying information on the abstract. Abstracts that include the author’s names will not be considered. See here for the Linguistic Society of America’s advice on abstract preparation.[link]

Contact Joe Salmons, jsalmons@wisc.edu, with questions.

We happily acknowledge that we owe this idea to the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics, which created the first Research Incubator.

Committees

Program Committee

• Marie Bissell
• Kendra Calhoun
• Paul Reed
• Joey Stanley

Contact

Joe Salmons, jsalmons@wisc.edu