Mian Feng with her poster and supervisors

At #BAAP2026 with Mian Feng presenting her PhD project on
"L2 listeners' perception of vowels in an unfamiliar accent: Lexical decision and transcription of West Yorkshire English". Co-authored with Gisela Tomé Lourido and pictured with Leendert Plug (co-supervisors).

This is super interesting

Interesting study 😊

Your task sounds amazing 😊

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Few lower tariff unis offer languages, excluding people from under-represented backgrounds who can't travel far to uni.

The Uni of Essex is a shining star, offering French, German, Italian, Portuguese & Spanish.

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Is this a linguistic thing? To you the vowel is "ay" (spelt with letter "i") and so stopping at "a" doesn't feel right?

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Good luck 🤞

Wow, good for you 😊

Cool 😊

Nice thread. Didn't go where I was expecting 😊

This is excellent. Love the distinction about different types of stuck - "productive discomfort" and "unproductive stuckness" - and the different approaches they need.

It is bizarre but also weirdly satisfying to find the tiny little sliver that works 😂

I can make it scroll if I put my finger on the very far right of the profile blurb (as well as anywhere on the posts below). How odd.

This made me laugh 😂

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This sounds interesting but if you follow the link there is nothing on March 2nd...?

This is brilliant. Entertaining and educational.

Wow. I'd forgotten about sunsets. It's been so long!!

So proud of my two brilliant colleagues 🧡

Great!

Good thread about French.

Oh that's interesting. And worrying! Thank you for commenting.

That's cool! I learned something 😊

Ongoing post available in interpreting and translation studies! They're a really lovely team in a great school!

This whole thread is brilliant - full of useful tips.

Cool. Will look forward to enjoying this next year 😊

I think the best time to say is if they offer you the job. You could say "I'd love it if I could do one day in office per fortnight". They decide whether to say yes or not. Unless one of the application or interview questions is "Can you do one day per week?" in which case you'd have to say then.

The video is brilliant. Big success with my ten year old.