Accent Variation in Scotland
@accentsinscotland.bsky.social
Occasional posts about and related to interdisciplinary research on Accent Variation in Scotland. Led by Dr Sonja Schaeffler at CASL, QMU, Edinburgh: https://tinyurl.com/CASL-at-QMU -- #speech #sociolinguistics #socialcognition #accents #dialect #CASL #QMU
Oh hooray and huge congratulations to @adrianleemann.bsky.social and his team! Very exciting to see a big dialect project getting the go-ahead! Also, brilliant project name! 😂 Recording L2 speakers pronouncing that would make a lovely project in itself! #dialects
David Britain, Paul Foulkes, David Willis and I have been awarded 2.5M CHF by SNSF & AHRC for CURLEW – the first major survey of English dialects in England & Wales in 75+ years. Starts: 2026 – posts to come. Outputs: papers + a public dialect atlas 🗺️ 📸 Drafting the proposal, Bern, Jan 2025.
October 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Oh hooray and huge congratulations to @adrianleemann.bsky.social and his team! Very exciting to see a big dialect project getting the go-ahead! Also, brilliant project name! 😂 Recording L2 speakers pronouncing that would make a lovely project in itself! #dialects
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💡 The idea that children drive language change is widely accepted — but does it hold up?
New research co-authored by Dr Vera Kempe challenges this view, showing little evidence that child-led innovations spread through communities.
Read more: www.mpi.nl/publications...
New research co-authored by Dr Vera Kempe challenges this view, showing little evidence that child-led innovations spread through communities.
Read more: www.mpi.nl/publications...
September 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
💡 The idea that children drive language change is widely accepted — but does it hold up?
New research co-authored by Dr Vera Kempe challenges this view, showing little evidence that child-led innovations spread through communities.
Read more: www.mpi.nl/publications...
New research co-authored by Dr Vera Kempe challenges this view, showing little evidence that child-led innovations spread through communities.
Read more: www.mpi.nl/publications...
Talking of -isms!!
December 7, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Talking of -isms!!
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🚌 New paper out on the dynamics of saying goodbye to and thanking bus drivers in rural vs. urban settings. Published in Journal of Pragmatics – w/ Jonathan Culpeper of @lancslinguistics.bsky.social. @snf-ch.bsky.social. @unibern.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #sociolinguistics
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #sociolinguistics
December 2, 2024 at 8:22 PM
🚌 New paper out on the dynamics of saying goodbye to and thanking bus drivers in rural vs. urban settings. Published in Journal of Pragmatics – w/ Jonathan Culpeper of @lancslinguistics.bsky.social. @snf-ch.bsky.social. @unibern.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #sociolinguistics
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #sociolinguistics
Fab workshop at QMU, run by my EdiUni colleague @christianilbury.bsky.social & Grace Mai Clark, Edi's 93% Club President. QMU may have fewer problems with elitism, but we can all do more to tackle #accentism, along with other -isms, at our unis. Let’s make the most of the momentum that is building.
December 7, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Fab workshop at QMU, run by my EdiUni colleague @christianilbury.bsky.social & Grace Mai Clark, Edi's 93% Club President. QMU may have fewer problems with elitism, but we can all do more to tackle #accentism, along with other -isms, at our unis. Let’s make the most of the momentum that is building.