NWAV

English Etymology The pronunciation comes from en NWAVE, the initials of the name of earlier iterations of the conference, en New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English. Pronunciation en /ˈɛn.weɪv/ Proper noun ~ en w:New Ways of Analyzing Variation: an annual academic conference in sociolinguistics. en 2015 Susan Tamasi; Lamont Antieau Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US: An Introduction New York, NY Routledge 978-0-415-80667-1 i https://books.google.com/books?id=KClWBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR1 Susan Tamasi is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Program in Linguistics, Emory University, Atlanta. She has presented at NWAV, AAAL, Sociolinguistics Symposium, and American Dialect Society. en 2016 Sali A. Tagliamonte Making Waves: The Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics Chichester, West Sussex John Wiley & Sons, Inc 9781118455166 10.1002/9781118455494 68 The researchers who had sent in their papers were frustrated – three NWAVs without publications. en 2019 Stefan Dollinger Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English Cambridge Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49771-8 253 https://books.google.com/books?id=GSmbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA253 One of the problems of NWAV reviewing is that it is carried out by self-declared experts with basically no conference organizer oversight, veto, or corrective. Everyone who went to NWAV can self-identify their areas of expertise and significantly affect the inclusion or rejection of a given paper. en 2023 Frances Jessica Ruth Maddeaux Individual Differences as Predictors of Participation in Sound Change University of Toronto vi https://hdl.handle.net/1807/127936 I found so many enthusiastic supporters at various NWAVs, too many to name, and I will always be grateful to have “grown up” in this dynamic, challenging environment of researchers.