Social:New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific

New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific (often shortened to NWAV Asia-Pacific or NWAV-AP) is a biennial academic conference in sociolinguistics and the first sister conference of New Ways of Analyzing Variation. NWAV Asia-Pacific focuses on research based on empirical data with an emphasis on quantitative analysis of variation and change across the Asia-Pacific region, including speech communities, multilingualism, urbanization and migration, sociophonetics, style-shifting, language contact, variation in minority languages, dialect variation and change, dialect contact, variation in acquisition, language change across the lifespan, 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: Asia-Pacific Language Variation (Benjamins Publishing).

Past conferences

Year	Title	Location	Host	Website
2022	NWAV-AP 7	Bangkok, Thailand	Chulalongkorn University	[1]
2021	NWAV-AP 6	Singapore	National University of Singapore	[2]
2018	NWAV-AP 5	Brisbane, Australia	University of Queensland	[3]
2016	NWAV-AP 4	Chiayi, Taiwan	National Chung Cheng University	[4]
2014	NWAV-AP 3	Wellington, New Zealand	Victoria University of Wellington	[5]
2012	NWAV-AP 2	Tokyo, Japan	National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics	[6]
2011	NWAV-AP	Delhi, India	University of Delhi	[7]

See also

• New Ways of Analyzing Variation
• Researching language variation and change
• Dialectology
• Linguistics conferences
• Sociolinguistics
• Variable rules analysis