Background
New Ways of Analyzing Variation – Asia Pacific is a sister conference of New Ways of Analyzing Variation, a long-standing conference held annually in North America. Like the North American NWAV, NWAV-AP showcases innovative and socially-informed research by emerging and established scholars working in the quantitative variationist tradition. NWAV-AP highlights and re-acknowledges the long and rich history of research on language variation and change in the Asia-Pacific region, which has often been overlooked in the field of sociolinguistics.
The first NWAV-AP conference was held in 2011, at the University of Delhi (India). Subsequent NWAV-AP meetings have been held at the National Institution for Japanese Language and Linguistics (Japan), Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan), and the University of Queensland (Australia).
NWAV-AP steering committee
Shobha Satyanath, University of Delhi, India
James N. Stanford, Dartmouth College, USA
Victoria Rau, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Oxford, England
Yoshiyuki Asahi, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan
NWAV-AP 6 organizing committee
Co-chair: Mie Hiramoto, National University of Singapore
Co-chair: Rebecca Starr, National University of Singapore
Assistant coordinator: Charlene Tan, National University of Singapore
Volunteer coordinators: Firqin Sumartono & Vincent Pak, National University of Singapore
Volunteers: Cai Jiajia, Grace Huang, Hasini Damsara Makawita, Kang You-Jin, Sophia Lim, Wei Rui Xue, Wesley Wang, Wong Jo-yen, Zhou Qinyao
You may contact the organizing committee at nwavap6@gmail.com.
NWAV-AP abstract reviewers
Abby Walker, Abigail Cohn, Alan Wan, Alan Yu, Brinda Balasubramaniam, Brook Bolander, Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Christian Albert Go, Daming Xu, Devyani Sharma, Felicity Meakins, Hui Zhao, James Stanford, Jun Jie Lim, Jonathan Kasstan, Kazuko Matsumoto, Kelvin Wong, Kenjiro Matsuda, Kevin Heffernan, Lauren Yeo, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian, Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Mie Hiramoto, Miriam Meyerhoff, Mihi Park, Nala H. Lee, Peter Keegan, Rowland Anthony Imperial, Rebecca Starr, Robert Bayley, Roey Gafter, Shobha Satyanath, Shrutika Kapoor, Tianxiao Wang, Victoria Rau, Vincent Pak, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Ying Ying Tan, Yoshiyuki Asahi, Yuhan Lin