Edinburgh University hosted the 14th edition of UK Language Variation and Change conference this week. The programme featured no fewer than seven contributions co-authored by LEL alumni/ae or colleagues, as listed below (marked in bold are authors with an LEL connection).
Language attitudes condition gender-based asymmetries in child-directed speech: exploring morphological variation in Bangla – Poroma Mostafiz and Michael Ramsammy
Reconciling spatial and dynamic aspects of vowel variation and change –
Sam Kirkham, Patrycja Strycharczuk and Emily Gorman
An articulatory study of /s/-retraction: How does thish change behave across word boundaries? –
George Bailey and Stephen Nichols
The acquisition of stylistic variation in Welsh-medium education –
Katharine Young, Jonathan Morris and Mercedes Durham
The loss of rhoticity in Blackburn, Lancashire: Evidence from sociolinguistic interviews and ultrasound – Danielle Turton and Robert Lennon
Occupation vs. education as the optimal indicator of socioeconomic status: a study of the Manchester speech community – Maciej Baranowski and Danielle Turton
Accents of Southeast England: feature co-variation vs. speaker's self identification – Amanda Cole and Patrycja Strycharczuk
Evidently, Manchester as a variety continues to inspire internationally leading work, but we can also see that LEL sociolinguists have broadened their typological scope to include Bangla, Welsh and even Essex.
The LEL Scottish reunion was also joined by alumnus Stefano Coretta, who now works Senior Teaching Coordinator for Statistics at U. Edinburgh, and George Walkden, who is now a professor in Konstanz, but it so happened he was around.
Featured photo, top row from left to right: George Bailey, Danielle Turton, Patrycja Strycharczuk, George Walkden; bottom row from left to right: Michael Ramsammy, Stefano Coretta
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