A Mancunian moment in some Manchester Voices data processing

Formalised h-dropping
#Leigh #Wigan Manchester Voices⁩

Remember that these displays are available to be borrowed by any school, library, community centre etc in or around Greater Manchester! Just get in touch here or via manchestervoices.org

Brilliant! And for those of you interested in Manchester accents, check out the first speaker’s lettER vowel (proper, banter, mother) and happY vowel (city) 😁😁 Manchester Voices

We have two sets of portable banners describing key findings from the Manchester Voices project. If any Greater Manchester schools, colleges, libraries, community centres etc would like to host them for a bit, please get in touch!
Manchester Libraries Mayor of Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Research with ongoing real-world measurable impact. Keeping people dry in Manchester ☔️

We’re looking for a Research Associate in Linguistics at ⁦Manchester Metropolitan Uni⁩! A great opportunity in a fantastic team. Working with ⁦Manchester Voices⁩ data among many other things. Lots of opportunities for development. Details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/r…

As part of #ManchesterVoices , an AHRC-funded project based at Manchester Metropolitan Uni, linguistics experts drove around the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester to map how different communities speak, and how they perceive each other’s accents: discover.ukri.org/AHRC-impact/in…

#AHRCat25 #WeAreAHRC

A book about the project and all its findings is on its way (eventually)! CUP Linguistics

I was recording an episode of Free Thinking for BBC Radio 3 yesterday (with Claire Nance, John Gallagher, Dr Andrea Smith and Shane O’Mara) and was delighted that the Manchester Voices Accent Van got a mention! Its legacy lives on 😁😁🐝

For anyone who feels that they need to change the way they speak for work, here's to a linguistically relaxing weekend. explore.manchestervoices.org #accents #dialects #styleshifting #perceptions

We have two sets of portable banners describing key findings from the Manchester Voices project. If any Greater Manchester schools, colleges, libraries, community centres etc would like to host them for a bit, please get in touch! Manchester Libraries Mayor of Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Malika Booker, a renowned writer and creative writing lecturer at Manchester Met has won the prestigious Forward Prize for best poem for her evocative work on grief and Caribbean rituals! 🎉

Read more here 👉mmu.ac.uk/news-and-event…

The Accentism Project collects and shares stories of language-based prejudice, discrimination and negative stereotyping. It is also a repository for related information and articles (academic and non-academic). Please consider sharing your own story at accentism.org.

Join us this morning for our drop in session on how to use the Archives+ Sound and Vision pods!

Lang Van Man ⁦Rob Drummond⁩ in latest emagazine

Amazing! Thanks so much for letting us know. We'll be in this week to have a look 😊😊 Manchester Metropolitan Uni MMU Research & Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council

We had this, also from Tameside, in the original Manchester Voices pilot study in 2016!