Katie Drager - Publications

Journal Articles

Drager, Katie (to appear) Speaker age and vowel perception. To appear in Language and Speech.
Drager, Katie (to appear) Sensitivity to grammatical and sociophonetic variability in perception. To appear in Laboratory Phonology.
Hay, Jennifer and Katie Drager (to appear) Stuffed toys and speech perception. To appear in Linguistics.
Hay, Jennifer, Paul Warren and Katie Drager (to appear) Short-term exposure to one dialect affects processing of another. To appear in Language and Speech.
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.
Drager, Katie (2006) From Bad to Bed: the relationship between perceived age and vowel perception in New Zealand English. Te Reo 48: 55-68 .
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.

Conference Presentations, Posters, and Papers

Drager, Katie and Jennifer Hay. Exploiting random intercepts: Two case studies in socio-phonetics. Paper presented as part of the workshop on Using statistical tools to explain linguistic variation at NWAV 38, Ottawa.
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, Penny 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 (2008) Sensitivity to grammatical and sociophonetic variability in perception. Paper presented at the 11th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Wellington, July 2008.
Drager, Katie (2008) Ethnographic Acoustics: Socially-conditioned phonetic variation of quotative ‘like’. Paper presented at The LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2008.
Hay, Jen, Abby Walker, and Katie Drager (2008) Emotional Affect Influencing Vowel Perception. Paper presented at The LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2008.
Hay, Jen, Abby Walker, and Katie Drager (2007) Getting your facts right: The effect of affect on speech perception. Paper presented at The 17th Linguistic Society of New Zealand Conference. Hamilton, November 2007.
Drager, Katie (2007) A Sociophonetic Ethnography of an All Girls' High School in New Zealand. Paper presented at the International Summer School of Sociolinguistics, University of Copenhagen, 9 June 2007.
Drager, Katie (2007) Social Information Shifting Phoneme Boundaries in Speech Perception. Paper presented at the 15th Manchester Phonology Meeting, 25 May 2007.
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. (PDF, 200 KB)
Drager, Katie (2006) A Sociolinguistic Ethnography of a New Zealand Girls’ High School: A work in progress. Paper presented at the New Zealand Language and Society Conference.
Drager, Katie, and Jen Hay (2006) Can you really believe your ears? The effect of stuffed toys on vowel perception. Paper presented at the New Zealand Language and Society Conference. Christchurch, August 2006.
Hay, Jennifer, Katie Drager, and Paul Warren (2006) Cross-Dialectal Exemplar Priming. Poster presented at the Tenth Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Paris, June 2006.
Drager, Katie (2006) Hearing Each Other Differently: a gender-based effect on vowel perception. Paper presented at the LSA Summer Meeting. Michigan, June 2006.
Drager, Katie (2005) Listeners As Social Perceivers: Investigating the link between social characteristics and speech perception. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of New Zealand Conference. Auckland, November 2005.
Nolan, Aaron, Jen Hay and Katie Drager (2005) Fush and Cheeps: The effect of regional labels on speech perception. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of New Zealand Conference. Auckland, November 2005.
Drager, Katie (2004) Social Influences on the Perception of DRESS and TRAP in New Zealand English. Paper presented at the New Zealand Language and Society Conference. Palmerston North, September 2004.
Hay, Jen, Paul Warren, and Katie Drager (2004) Sound change and the social indexing of lexical exemplars: evidence from near the square. Paper presented at the New Zealand Language and Society Conference. Palmerston North, September 2004.
Drager, Katie (2004) When Good Beds Go Bad: a study of front vowels in New Zealand English. Paper presented at the University of Victoria Postgraduate Conference. Wellington, August 2004.
Drager, Katie (2004) Social Influences on the Perception of DRESS and TRAP in New Zealand English. Departmental seminar at the University of Canterbury. Christchurch, August 2004.

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Invited Talks

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. 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

katie.dragerAThawaii.edu