📣 Save the date: Friday 10th July 2026!
This year's FREE and fully hybrid York English Language Toolkit CPD workshop for teachers of English Language A level is on Friday 10th July 2026 10.30am-4.30pm, with talks on Multicultural London English and more. Registration from April. Pass the word!
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New postdoc position with the LEVANTE project! We're looking for someone with language development / reading knowledge to help work on our international adaptations of language assessments. Please forward to interested candidates
last few days to support Robyn if you would like to she has made a lot of effort doing this and we cannot thank her enough.
her fundraising page is still open please give what you can. Thank you
OED says "toe-rag" www.oed.com/dictionary/t... @susiedentwords.bsky.social #TheArchers
Very happy to announce another article is out this week 🎉!
This paper took some time to get from my PhD to here, but I'm so happy it has now found a home in SSLA: doi.org/10.1017/S027....
Special thanks to my supervisors and co-authors @samhellmuth.bsky.social and Leah Roberts.
First paper of 2026 with Rhys Sandow, @jwgrieve.bsky.social, and Rose Stamp!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2025/12/19
The new @lagbling.bsky.social website is looking very snazzy 👀 www.lagb.org.uk #linguistics
I’ve written a long blog here that comes out of various things that I’ve worked on with other people this term. It’s about accents... again! Sorry, not sorry.
englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/pride-a...
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Accent bias logo. Four speech bubbles in four different coloured squares.
Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work:
accentbias.ed.ac.uk
Hi @lner.co.uk - can you contact your rail replacement contractor asap and ask them to ensure the coaches parked along Knavesmire Road this morning do *not* leave their engines running while parked up please? There are kids and families at football matches having to breathe the fumes. Thanks!
A nice one for #EnglishLanguage A level #accents and #diversity @englangblog.bsky.social
Source: BBC
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Yes - I wouldn't expect TRAP in 'magic' to vary.. I've had a happy time listening to Grimsby accents on TikTok though to check, but so far noone has said 'magic' so, who knows? 😂
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A pitch contours plot showing the shape of pitch rise at the end of questions in Cairene Egyptian Arabic, on words with different numbers of syllables, and with the stress on different syllables of the word. The rise typically starts at the beginning of the stressed syllable then carries on rising towards the end of the utterance. There are some dinks in the rise along the way in some cases, but those can mostly be explained by the properties of the sounds in the word, such as a fully voiced /d/ between two vowels, that depresses the F0 contour due to voicing during the closure.
Today I made this plot (among other things)
The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Touring bike leaning against the pavement on a bright sunny day, with wall of the Larpool Viaduct behind and Whitby Abbey in the background on the horizon
@sustrans.bsky.social great trip this weekend 🌞 #BucketList
I'm glad we'll see you the week after next. And yeay for the plants :)
Oh, I was in but didn't know you were there :( I wondered why your plant had suddenly appeared in the foyer...
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Only one month to go till York English Language Toolkit 2025!
Friday 11th July 2025 10.00am-4.30pm englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops
Registration link: bit.ly/yelt2025work...
We've just got a new episode in the can which will come out very soon. It's our annual preview of the @yorktoolkit.bsky.social teacher CPD event. Coming soon! Get signed up here if you haven't already: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops
Please share widely: The dates for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 have changed to November 5-7, 2025, due to a late-breaking university calendar change.
Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)
Yet another reason to use @ecosiasearch.bsky.social !
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~Karol Balfe CEO ActionAid Ireland
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Would 100% recommend this.
The University of York’s English Language Toolkit brings cutting-edge linguistic research into the sixth-form classroom, offering free resources, case studies, and CPD opportunities to inspire and support A-level English Language teachers. #NATE www.nate.org.uk/2025/05/01/l...
FREE registration for the 2025 York English English Language Toolkit is now open! Outline programme and registration link are at: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops
The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online!
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