Paper in press in LVC by Jenny showing topic/attitude effects for variables linked to place (attn Kevin Watson) #SocioPhonAus

Cox et al show regional and age effects in /s/ retraction in 'Australia' in Australia. (Also effects of piercings!) #SocioPhonAus

My favourite result so far from Andy Gibson's fantastic work on accent in singing. 'Singy' words (used more in song than speech) are more rhotic in NZers' singing than 'speaky' words #sociophonaus

Jacq Jones talking about the speed bumps in their research #SocioPhonAus

Shaw et al: vowel #perception by #Australian listeners is stable across 5 accents of English. By tolerating phonetic differences, listeners can perceive variation in terms of #phonological categories; & accent adaptation is likely a long process. #labphon doi.org/10.5334/labpho…

Academic Xmas present - paper accepted: Age estimation in foreign-accented speech by non-native speakers of English (with Jiao Dan, Vicky Watson, Sidney Wong, and Jessie Nixon) doi.org/10.1016/j.spec…

Congratulations to all participants at the 4-day Sociophonetics Workshop on a highly 'productive' gathering. And is that the new 'Triple C', the Canberra Corpus Collective Ksenia Gnevsheva jen hay @dalaigrama Debbie Loakes Chloé Diskin-Holdaway Simon Gonzalez ??

Workshop: Language variation & change (LVC-A4) at 2019 @AusLingSoc Conference, 10-11 Dec MQ Linguistics feat. Catherine Travis, Dr Celeste R Louro 🌿 @dalaigrama Debbie Loakes Simon Gonzalez Chloé Diskin-Holdaway jen hay @bulletproofling @MunangaLinguist Ksenia Gnevsheva dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/news-and-media…

Male-to-male address terms in the UK. Updated, but still incomplete, unscientific, and anecdotal. Interesting though, because dialect.

Come and join ⁦jen hay⁩ and me at ⁦NZILBB⁩ to work on two cool projects looking at implications of Māori language proto-lexicons in NZ adults⁦⁩ - Post-Doctoral Fellow x 2 - University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/aji…

I've updated my Linguistics Jobs page, which now contains links to nearly a hundred advice posts and interviews on things people do with a linguistics degree (Mostly non-academic, but including some academia/grad school advice) RT to help a student allthingslinguistic.com/jobs

1st and 2nd generation bilinguals style-shift similarly, but vowel quality and ling conditioning in 2nd gen speakers is more similar to monolingual English speakers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

New preprint w/ @jhstuartsmith: "Voice quality and coda /r/ in Glasgow English in the early 20th century" (to appear in LVC). We set out to find changes in /r/ but found a general shift in voice quality instead... which is surprising but also cool! psyarxiv.com/td4px/

Hot off the presses! A new special issue on Innovative #Methods in #Sociophonetics (Pharao & Fabricius, eds.) degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan… |£| DM me with your email address for a copy of my paper with Zac Boyd! #sociolinguistics #phonetics

Many migrant parents want their children to be fluent in their family language as well as English. But why? Is it heritage, family ties, the job market? In my latest article Frontiers Education, I explore how migrants keep their languages alive: frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

“So she goes, she goes, she goes...” No more. “Like” has killed “go”, says Catherine Travis, describing 100 years of change in Australian English. #CoedlFest2020

Dear all, apologies for belated notification. This has been a busy and momentous day. We have just made the hard decision to postpone SS23 to 2021. Initial notification will go up on the website in a few moments. Registration should be closed by now.

New paper w/ @kj_vanengen examining pupil response for native- and nonnative-accented speech! Key pts: 👁 pupil response is greater for nonnative accent 💯 all speech was accurately recognized 📊 nonnative speaker was rated more effortful to understand 👉 doi.org/10.1121/10.000…

My article with Simon Gonzalez and Robert Fromont is out! Spoiler alert: Automatic alignment in English was more accurate than in Russian and automatic alignment accuracy in Russian improved if stressed and unstressed vowels were treated separately. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New article! How does speaker visual ethnicity info affect listeners' evaluation of their accentedness and personality characteristics? Spoiler alert: Asian speakers and females are rated as more accented and less powerful and competent. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…