Katie Drager - Publications

Journal Articles

Drager, Katie and James Grama (to appear) "De tawk dakain ova dea": Mapping Language Ideologies on O‘ahu. To appear in Dialectologia 12 in January 2014.
Drager, Katie (2012) Pidgin and Hawai‘i English: an overview. Journal of Language, Translation, and Intercultural Communication. 1(1): 61-73.
Drager, Katie and Jennifer Hay (2012) Exploiting random intercepts: Two case studies in sociophonetics. Language Variation and Change 24(1): 59-78.
Drager, Katie (2011) Sociophonetic variation and the lemma. Journal of Phonetics 39(4): 694-707. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2011.08.005.
Drager, Katie (2011) Speaker age and vowel perception. Language and Speech 54(1):99-121. doi: 10.1177/0023830910388017.
Drager, Katie (2010) Sensitivity to grammatical and sociophonetic variability in perception. Laboratory Phonology 1(1):93-120. doi: 10.1515/labphon.2010.006.
Drager, Katie (2010) Sociophonetic variation in speech perception. Language and Linguistics Compass 4(7):473-480.
Drager, Katie, Jennifer Hay, and Abby Walker (2010) Pronounced rivalries: Attitudes and speech production. Te Reo 53: 27-53.
Hay, Jennifer and Katie Drager (2010) Stuffed toys and speech perception. Linguistics 48(4):865-892.
Hay, Jennifer, Paul Warren and Katie Drager (2010) Short-term exposure to one dialect affects processing of another. Language and Speech 53(4):447-471.
Hay, Jennifer, Katie Drager and Paul Warren (2009) Careful who you talk to: An effect of experimenter identity on the production of the NEAR/SQUARE merger in New Zealand English. Australian Journal of Linguistics 29(2):269-285.
Hay, Jennifer and Katie Drager (2007) Sociophonetics. Annual Review of Anthropology 36:89-103.
Hay, Jennifer, Aaron Nolan and Katie Drager (2006) From fush to feesh: Exemplar priming in speech perception. The Linguistic Review 23:351-79.
Hay, Jennifer, Paul Warren and Katie Drager (2006) Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a merger-in-progress. Journal of Phonetics 34, 4:458-84.
Drager, Katie (2005) From bad to bed: the relationship between perceived age and vowel perception in New Zealand English. Te Reo 48:55-68 .

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Book Chapters

Drager, Katie (forthcoming) Experimental Methods in Sociolinguistics. In Janet Holmes and Kirk Hazen (eds.) Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A practical guide, Wiley-Blackwell.

Select Conference Presentations, Posters, and Papers

Grama, James, M. Joelle Kirtley, Katie Drager, Sean Simpson and Rebecca Clifford (2012) Language Change in Hawai‘i: KIT, DRESS & TRAP in Motion. Paper to be presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 41. Bloomington, October 2012.
Grama, James and Katie Drager. (2012) Mapping Linguistic Ideologies on O‘ahu. Paper to be presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia Pacific 2. Tokyo, August 2012.
Drager, Katie, Rachel Schutz, Ivan Chik, Kate Hardeman and Victor Jih (2012) When hearing is believing: Perceptions of speaker style, gender, ethnicity, and pitch. Paper presented at the LSA Annual Meeting. Portland, January 2012.
Drager, Katie, Rebecca Clifford and Jennifer Hay (2011) The production and perception of a low back vowel merger. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40. Georgetown, October 2011.
Drager, Katie (2011) Style and Perceived Sexuality. Paper presented at E. Levon and R. Beline Mendes Sexuality in Language: Analyzing complex social practice, themed panel at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40. Georgetown, Washington D.C., October 2011.
Drager, Katie and Jennifer Hay (2010) A novice's guide to understanding mixed effects models. Paper presented as part of the workshop on Using Statistical Tools to Explain Linguistic Variation at NWAV 39, San Antonio.
Drager, Katie and Jennifer Hay. (2010) Visual subliminal primes affect vowel perception. Poster presented at the 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Albuquerque, July 2010.
Drager, Katie (2010) Exploring stored representations of speaker style. Paper presented at the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sociolinguistic Meaning, the Ohio State University, June 2010.
Kaiser, Eden and Katie Drager. (2009) A sociophonetic investigation of nasalization, vowel perception, and speaker characteristics. Poster presented at The International Nasal Workshop. Montpellier, June 2009.
Drager, Katie and Abby Walker (2009) Phonetic variation in polysemous words. Paper presented at The LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 2009.
Drager, Katie, Penelope Eckert and Kyuwon Moon (2008) Style and prosodic variation. Paper presented at NWAV 37, Houston, November 2008.
Drager, Katie (2008) Language, stance, and identity at Selwyn Girls' High. Paper presented at the 5th International Gender and Language Association Conference. Wellington, July 2008.
Drager, Katie (2006) Social categories, grammatical categories, and the likelihood of "like" monophthongisation. Paper presented at the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology.University of Auckland, New Zealand, December 6-8, 2006. Christchurch, August 2006. Digital proceedings pp. 384-87.

Invited Talks

2012 (with M. Joelle Kirtley, James Grama, Sean Simpson, and Rebecca Clifford) Phonetic Variation and Change in Hawai‘i English. Linguistics Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, May 2012.
2012 Variation and Change in Hawai‘i English. Keynote speaker at the Symposium about Language and Society - Austin (SALSA) XX: Languages and Societies in Contact, Austin, April 2012.
2011 Conducting Speech Perception Experiments. Paper presented at Yaegor-Dror, M. and M. DiPaolo Sociophonetics Workshop at the LSA Summer Institute, Boulder, CO, July 2011.
2011 Co-Constructing Identity: evidence from ethnographic and experimental research on language. Paper presented at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, June 2011.
2011 Style, Stereotypes, and Sound Change. Plenary address at the 15th Annual Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, April 2011.
2011 The Present and Future of Linguistics: a panel discussion. With W. O'Grady and K. Rehg. Linguistics Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, January 2011.
2010 Perceived Style. Paper presented at the inaugural workshop of the New Zealand Institute for Language, Behaviour and the Brain, Christchurch, December 2010.
2010 Variation in Speech Perception (and Why Sociolinguists Should Care). Senior Citizen Visitor Program, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, January 2010.
2009 Form Variation in Speech Production and Perception. Languages and Linguistics Seminar, University of York, June 2009.
2009 Toward a Model of Sociophonetic Variation in Production and Perception. Linguistics Seminar, Newcastle University, June 2009.
2009 Mum's like "why do you say that?" The production and perception of like at Selwyn Girls' High. Linguistics Seminar Series, Queen Mary, University of London, May 2009.
2009 Social Psycholinguistics: Toward a model of speech production and identity construction. Linguistics Department Seminar, University of Canterbury, March 2009.
2008 Speech Perception with Attitude. Linguistics Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, December 2008.
2008 Phonetic Variation and Speaker Identity. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, November 2008.
2008 Speech Divergence as Performance. Sociorap, Stanford University, March 2008.
2008 Effect of the Experimenter. Phonetics Phorum, UC Berkeley, February 2008.
2007 Multiple Methodologies. University of Canterbury, October 2007.
2007 Sociophonetics in New Zealand. University of Essex, June 2007.
2007 Socially-Conditioned Variation in the Production and Perception of New Zealand English. Newcastle University, June 2007.
2007 A Sociolinguistic Ethnography in a New Zealand High School. Sociolinguistic Research Seminar, University of Oxford, June 2007.
2007 Sociophonetic Variation in New Zealand English. General Linguistics Graduate Seminar, University of Oxford, May 2007.
2006 Toying with Speech Perception. University of the Third Age, Christchurch, August 2006.
2004 Social Influences on the Perception of DRESS and TRAP in New Zealand English. Departmental seminar at the University of Canterbury. Christchurch, August 2004.

Katie Drager
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

kdragerAThawaii.edu