Andries Coetzee  taught a course on “Variation in gradience in phonology” at the 19th Linguistics Institute of the Associação Brasileira de Lingüística (abbreviated as ABRALIN, “Brazilian Association of Linguistics”) at the UFPB ( Universidade Federal da Paraíba, “Federal University of Paraiba”) in João Pessoa,  March 2-4.

From Andries

The class was attended by about 30 people, both graduate students and professors. There was a good mix in the class of phonologists and sociolinguists of the variationist ilk, which made for very interesting and productive in class discussions. I was pleasantly surprised to see how active the phonology research community is in Brazil, and I have learned a lot from my interactions
with both faculty and students in the class.

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