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'''New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific''' (often shortened to '''NWAV Asia-Pacific''' or '''NWAV-AP''') is a biennial academic conference in [[Social:Sociolinguistics|sociolinguistics]] and the first sister conference of [[Social:New Ways of Analyzing Variation|New Ways of Analyzing Variation]]. NWAV Asia-Pacific focuses on research based on empirical data with an emphasis on [[Statistics|quantitative analysis]] of [[Social:Variation (linguistics)|variation and change]] across the [[Earth:Asia-Pacific|Asia-Pacific]] region, including speech communities, multilingualism, [[Earth:Urbanization|urbanization]] and [[Biology:Human migration|migration]], sociophonetics, style-shifting, language contact, variation in minority languages, [[Social:Dialect|dialect]] variation and change, dialect contact, variation in [[Social:Language acquisition|acquisition]], language change across the lifespan, [[Social:Perceptual dialectology|perceptual dialectology]], and other related topics such as technological resources for sociolinguistic research. The first NWAV Asia-Pacific conference was held at University of Delhi, India in February, 2011, which included an inaugural conference address by William Labov.

The NWAV Asia/Pacific conference series has also led to the founding of a new peer-reviewed journal focused on language variation and change in this region:
[https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/aplv/main Asia-Pacific Language Variation] (Benjamins Publishing).

==Past conferences==

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! Year !! Title !! Location !! Host !! Website
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| 2022 || NWAV-AP 7 || Bangkok, Thailand || [[Organization:Chulalongkorn University|Chulalongkorn University]] || [https://www.arts.chula.ac.th/ling/nwavap7/]
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| 2021 || NWAV-AP 6 || [[Place:Singapore|Singapore]] || National University of Singapore || [https://blog.nus.edu.sg/nwavap6/]
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| 2018 || NWAV-AP 5|| Brisbane, Australia || University of Queensland || [http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/nwav-ap5/]
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| 2016 || NWAV-AP 4 || Chiayi, Taiwan || National Chung Cheng University || [http://angel.ccu.edu.tw/Site/nwav-ap4/dir_EaFmtT/]
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| 2014 || NWAV-AP 3 || Wellington, New Zealand || [[Organization:Victoria University of Wellington|Victoria University of Wellington]] || [https://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/nwav-ap3]
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| 2012 || NWAV-AP 2 || Tokyo, Japan || National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics || [https://pj.ninjal.ac.jp/socioling/nwavap02/]
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| 2011 || NWAV-AP || Delhi, India || University of Delhi || [http://nwavap.du.ac.in/]
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== See also==
* [[Social:New Ways of Analyzing Variation|New Ways of Analyzing Variation]]
* [[Social:Variation (linguistics)|Researching language variation and change]]
* Dialectology
* Linguistics conferences
* [[Social:Sociolinguistics|Sociolinguistics]]
* [[Variable rules analysis]]

[[Category:Sociolinguistics]]

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