2019. Wang, Xiaomei, and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Local identity and standardization: Evidence from Tianjin Chinese tone sandhi. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 48, University of Oregon, October 10-12.
2019. Zaykovskaya, Irina, and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Remarkably aware: Non-native usage of remarkable LIKE and sensitivity to local patterns. Paper presented at Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Michigan State University, September 20-22.
2019. Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Michiganders think they sound normal: Is that turning out to be true? Invited talk at Northwestern University, May 10.
2018. (with Meisam Arjmand and Laura Dilley). Investigation of acoustic dimension use in dialect production: Machine learning of sonorant sound for modeling acoustic cues of African American dialect. Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, Michigan State University, July 31 – August 3.
2018. (with Saya Uehara). Perception of sound change in progress. Poster presented at Cognitive Science of Communication Symposium, Michigan State University, April 20.
2018. (with Laura Dilley and Meisam Arjmandi). Acoustic cues to linguistic profiling? Machine learning of phonetic features of African American English. Poster to be presented at the 175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, May 11.
2018. (with Saya Uehara). Outlier perception accuracy for a vowel undergoing change in progress. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Salt Lake City, January 4-7.
2017. The new normal: Supralocal sound change in Michigan. Invited talk at Georgetown Speaker Series in Linguistics, Georgetown University, December 8.
2017. (with Saya Uehara). Progressive outliers in listener perception of sound change. Paper presented at NWAV 46, Madison, Wisconsin, November 2-5.
2016. Vernacular stability: Comparative evidence from two lifespan studies. (with Sali Tagliamonte). Paper presented at NWAV 45, Vancouver, Canada, November 3-6.
2016. The role of imagination in tracking variant frequency. (with Ashley Hesson and Derek Denis). Poster presented at NWAV 45, Vancouver, Canada, November 3-6.
2016. An analysis of the vowels of African American English. (with Meisam K. Arjmandi, Zachary Ireland, Alex Mason and Laura Dilley). Paper presented at the 21st Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference (MidPhon), Michigan State University, September 16-18.
2016. Scaling up reliably: The pros and cons of rigorous protocols. Invited plenary presentation at Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change 3, University of Ottawa, May 5-7.
2016. Conceptualizing and coding social class in North American sociolinguistics. (with Robin Dodsworth). Invited presentation at satellite NSF workshop Preparing your Corpus for Archival Storage: Coding for Socioeconomics, Education, Language Choice, and Stance (co-organizers Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Christopher Cieri), Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Washington, DC, January 7.
2015. Reversal and re-organization of the Northern Cities Shift in Michigan. (with Alexander Mason, Monica Nesbitt, Erin Pevan & Matt Savage). Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 44), Toronto, Canada, October 22-25 and American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2016, January 8.
2015. Ignorant and annoying: Inland Northerners’ attitudes toward NCS short-o. (with Alexander Mason, Monica Nesbitt, Erin Pevan & Matt Savage). Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 44), Toronto, Canada, October 22-25 and American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2016, January 8.
2015. Assessing sociolinguistic monitor performance as a function of individual differences. (with Ashley Hesson). Linguistic Society of American annual meeting, Portland, OR, January 8-11.
2014. ‘Senior peer pressure’ and late stage language change. (with Gillian Sankoff). New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 43, Chicago, University of Illinois, October 23-26.
2014. Incrementation in adolescence: Tapping the force that drives linguistic change. (with Sali Tagliamonte). International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) conference 3, Zurich, Switzerland, August 24-27.
2014. What makes a panel study work? Researcher and participant in real time. (with Sali Tagliamonte). International Conference on Methods in Dialectology XV, University of Groningen, as part of the workshop Panel Studies: Challenges, food for thought and ways forward, August 15, 2014.
2013. A study of the future tenses in 20th century Montreal French. Laurence Porter French Colloquium Series, Michigan State University, September 13.
2013. Individual differences in social competence and attention to detail affect the sociolinguistic monitor. UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC) 9, University of Sheffield, UK, September 2-4.
2013. Referential general extender use across registers in American English speech. (with Ashley Hesson and Heidi Little). UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC) 9, University of Sheffield, UK, September 2-4.
2013. What might individual differences tell us about language change across the lifespan? University of Pennsylvania Linguistics Department Speaker Series, Philadelphia, PA, March 14.
2012. Reliability, accountability and stuff like that: Quantifying pragmatic function in general extenders. (with Ashley Hesson and Kali Bybel) Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change, University of Salford, UK, April 18-20.
2012. A shot in the arm for sociolinguistics. (with Ashley Hesson and J. Daniel Hasty). Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) 2012, Georgetown University, March 8-11.
2012. Shifting and separating: Directions in individual lifespan linguistic change. (with Madeline Shellgren). Conference on Sources of Individual Linguistic Differences. University of Ottawa, Canada, March 2-4. abstract
2011. The long tail of language change: Québécois French futures in real time. (with Gillian Sankoff and Laura Jensen). NWAV 40, Georgetown University, October 27-30 2011. abstract, handout