The fourth meeting of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Asia-Pacific (NWAV-AP 4) conference series will be held April 22-24 2016, in Chiayi, Taiwan with the theme “Interface between sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics.” 

NWAV ASIA-PACIFIC endeavors to bring together research that is firmly based on empirical data with an emphasis on the quantitative analysis of variation and change. Its priorities are to promote and showcase research on (1) the indigenous languages of the Asia-Pacific region, and (2) restructured or contact varieties that have emerged in the Asia-Pacific region.

NWAV AP 4 welcomes submissions for papers and posters on all scientific approaches to analyzing and interpreting language variation and change across the Asia-Pacific region including: real-time/apparent-time language change, dialect variation and change, speech communities, multilingualism, urbanization and migration, sociophonetics, style-shifting, language/dialect contact, variation in minority languages, variation in acquisition, perceptual dialectology, and other topics that enrich our understandings of the region and its indigenous languages.

At the first meeting of the conference held at the University of New Delhi, India in February 2011, NWAV AP established a tradition of showcasing the innovative descriptive, philological, historical and socially informed research being conducted by emerging and established scholars in some of the world's most fertile arenas of language and dialect contact. The second meeting was hosted by NINJAL (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) in Tokyo in August 2012, and the third meeting was hosted by the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies and the Deaf Studies Research Unit of Victoria University of Wellington in May 2014.