Show notes for Episode 8
Here are the show notes for Episode 8 which is a special edition on Northern accents where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew (2 proper Northerners, a Welsh person and a soft, southern shandy drinker) talk about:
Northern accents, dialect levelling and reports of a new ‘educated middle class northern English accent’ emerging.
And we talk to Dr Georgina Brown from Lancaster University about the study itself.
Georgina Brown’s Lancaster University page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/georgina-brown
Northern accents are becoming more similar, suggests new research
A link posted by project leader Patrycja Strycharczuk about the Manchester research: Strycharczuk et al.’s Frontiers paper sparks controversy
The paper itself can be found here: General Northern English. Exploring Regional Variation in the North of England With Machine Learning
Patrycja Strycharczuk (@PatStrycharczuk)
Kevin Watson on Scouse: Scousers are proud of their accent
Cambridge University’s app to measure dialect change: Do you say splinter, spool, spile or spell? English Dialects app tries to guess your regional accent
Cambridge app maps decline in regional diversity of English dialects
Media reports on the paper
Guardian: Northern English accents becoming more similar, researchers find
Mail Online: Northern accents 'are becoming more similar'
Daily Telegraph: Northern accents becoming more similar as middle-class 'General Northern English' emerges, study finds
Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/northern-accents-more-similar-distinct-cities-manchester-leeds-sheffield-a9623071.html
A great Twitter account to follow if you want to see how Twitter can be used for dialect research: https://twitter.com/tweetolectology
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Lisa Casey
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Dan Clayton
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Jacky Glancey
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