Delighted to celebrate the graduation of Dr Shadiya AlHashmi!
Shadiya’s PhD is in historical phonology, reconstructing the trajectory of phonetic adaptation of Arabic loanwords into Turkish.
Data citation in linguistics
I’ve endorsed the Austin Principles of Data Citation in Linguistics.
The Intonational Variation in Arabic corpus is published by the UK Data Service and will be available open access from September 29th 2018.
Arabic questions at Speech Prosody 2018
Poster presented at the 9th Speech Prosody conference in Poznań June 13-16th 2018; the paper is available open access at: www.isca-speech.org/archive/SpeechProsody_2018/pdfs/240.pdf
Intonational variation in Middlesbrough
New work on systematic inter-generational variation in the intonation patterns of speakers from Middlesbrough, in collaboration with Carmen Llamas, presented at the 8th Northern Englishes Workshop.
Postgrad-uation
Proud to see two of my most recent research students graduate this last weekend:
- Cath Pease: MA by Research for work on accentedness and intelligibility in the speech of L1 Arabic learners of L2 English
- Saudi Sadiq: PhD for work on dialect (non-)levelling in Egypt (co-supervised with Paul Kerswill)
English: Shared Futures
Great day out to Newcastle with Ann Taylor and Rebecca Woods to present a taster of our York CPD work with teachers of English Language A level at the inaugural English: Shared Futures conference.
4 x Radio 4 in Four
Four (count ’em, 4) Radio 4 in Four clips about intonation:
- why do people go up at the end of their sentences?
- what does your intonation say about you?
- how does Welsh differ in its use of intonation?
- to point out that this is Welsh English, of course, not Welsh…
- how does intonation differ across languages?
R4 in Four?
Some Word of Mouth discussion on uptalk (that going up at the end even when it’s not a question thing?) features in a Radio 4 in Four clip.
I have to acknowledge that everything I learned about uptalk I learned from Paul Warren’s excellent (2015) CUP book of the same name.
Word of Mouth
In which I attempt to explain what intonation does for a living in an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, with Michael Rosen and Laura Wright, on the topic of “Intonation: The Music of Speaking”. Available as a podcast.
A big thanks to Justin Watkins of SOAS for sharing the Burmese tones sound files which we used in the programme (and which also appear in the Illustration of the IPA for Burmese).