Absolutely. I noted in one of my #uklvc15 posts how much I loved that there was a session on kids. There's so much more for us to learn about the relationship between acquisition and stylisation (for example).
Great paper! So many Halls :)
After 15 min talks with 5 min for questions at #UKLVC15 last week, next week I get 30 min with 15 min for questions at #LiCLA1 next week. *adds more cool left/right dislocation and fronting examples to slides* lime.meertens.knaw.nl/en/events/li...
Had a great time at #UKLVC15, held at
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social
I presented my research that looked at using large-scale corpora and real-time methods to model non-linear trajectories of sound change, and explore any social relevance for these significant timepoints of change. (1)
This week I had the privilege of presenting my recently submitted MSc dissertation work at #uklvc15, my first major conference where I met some incredible people who had some very inspiring comments.
Thank you to @clrnance.bsky.social for providing the opportunity to present at such short notice!
Just back from #UKLVC15 in Lancaster. Huge thank you to the organising committee (special shout-out to Claire Nance!) who managed to make it relaxed, relevant and rigorous, all at once. Fab conference.
#UKLVC15 you've been wonderful. Thank you to everyone who organised, presented, asked questions, had intelligent sensitive conversations...all the things. If that was my academic swansong (tbc), it was a pretty great one.
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social
Anyone at #uklvc15 travelling north: all trains north of Lancaster are cancelled at least until the end of the day. Please check your journey tomorrow for amendments. I’m currently making my way to Edinburgh via Preston & York.
An A4 sheet stuck on a bollard signposting the way to the conference venue
A PhD student standing in front of her poster in conversation with a conference attendant.
Another PhD student standing in front of her poster in conversation with a conference attendant.
Our wee 'Accent Variation in Scotland/ by Scots' delegation at #UKLVC15.
Brendan Regan's #uklvc15 talk on Andalucía Spanish shows that listeners from outside Sevilla attribute Sevilla features (seseo & rotacismo) as indexing Sevilla, but listeners *from* Sevilla hear the same features as indexing rural spaces *outside* of Sevilla.
Enregisterment is awesome.
The ways in which sign languages can be shaped by specific deaf schools is so interesting. Waddell & Lafferty's #uklvc15 poster documents the mixed signs of a Glaswegian school initially staffed by Irish nuns: things like BSL signs with ISL handshape. Now a generational marker; an endangered lect.
Thanks to Célia Richy for her #uklvc15 talk on Bourdeaux #French. Many different variables and a very careful statistical test of the hypothesis some call "coherence." Very convincing argument that bricolage offers a stronger account of the data.
#variation #linguistics #sociolinguistics #LVC
Chiu et al. #uklvc15 show that UK evaluations of doctors' knowledge & helpfulness correlate with accent: SSBE & Indian always highest, Essex & Nigerian always lowest.
Random fun finding: listeners from the Highland and Islands gave overall more positive ratings vs. all other regions of listeners! 🏴
We chatted! Emma's Q was about the persistence of markedness in the lower right case. And yes, absolutely, we can't have indexicality without markedness first. It's not on my slide because complex indexicality means that what is (un)marked becomes highly context-based. #uklvc15
Keynote No. 2 at #uklvc15 — Gabrielle Hodge (University of Edinburgh) using an Australian forest (or “bush”) as a metaphor for a linguistic ecosystem.
At the end of my Q&A yesterday @scillym.bsky.social asked a Q that I think I got wrong. She sat down thinking she'd misunderstood something but I think I misunderstood her Q. Here's the relevant slide... Can you ask it again, Emma? Apologies!! #uklvc15
I'm really looking forward to Gabrielle Hodge's #uklvc15 plenary this morning. Gab is my colleague at @schoolofppls.bsky.social and has become a dear friend. She's also a badass linguist and activist. Check out her website and I'll see you there at 9am!
www.gabriellehodge.com
#linguistics
Since we have established theories about preadolescent linguistic variation and change (Eckert 2011), it's with these pre-preadolescents where our field really stands to learn a lot, imo. Both talks showed how very variable this age group is but who better to tackle that than variationists! #uklvc15
So cool that #uklvc15 had a session just on kids: Ryan et al. on Polish and Libyan teens in Glasgow, and two talks on the dreadfully understudied demographic of upper primary school: Jones et al. on Somali kids in East London and Stuart-Smith et al. on kids across central/southern Scotland. /1
I hadn't thought about the phonetics of sarcasm before seeing Karatepe's #uklvc15 poster yesterday. She looked at spontaneous speech in a Turkish comedy show and found a general correlation with high tonal contours, unless the speaker was trying to avoid offence, and then they used "murmur tone".
I'm so impressed at Palfreyman et al.'s #uklvc15 poster on grammaticalization in both Creoles and sign languages. We had a great discussion about phonetic/phonological reduction processes in sign. There can be reduction in both modes of articulation: manual and mouthings. So complex and interesting!
Staying with me after yesterday's #uklvc15 poster session is Schaeffler et al.'s point that Child-Directed Speech was different in soviet East Germany than in the West. Less influence on individualism influences CDS phonetic features!
#acquisition #linguistics #sociolinguistics #contextmatters
#ManchesterVoices in the wild(ish). Maya Dewhurst is looking at nasal vowels in Blackpool and Manchester, based on folk and literature associations between nasal quality and Manchester accents. #UKLVC15
Deep comparison of 4 girls from 4 different communities of practice by @scillym.bsky.social & Rob Podesva (from Bolton, UK).
Affect is a defining characteristic of personhood only for some of the CofPs, so members are constrained in different ways in how they can index affect.
#uklvc15
Three cheers to @lucy-jackson.bsky.social for showing how awesome the Scottish CAT vowel is 🥰🏴 #uklvc15
Also the study of changes in social class and class indexicality over time! More of this please 🙏🏼
#sociolinguistics #variation #change #LVC #phonetics
My obligatory (and likely only) post from #uklvc15 (United Kingdom Language Variation and Change) in Lancaster.
On the stylisation and alignment of non-locals towards Roadman person; @christianilbury.bsky.social's #uklvc15 plenary hits home with me because my 13-year-old Edinburgh-raised daughter is going as a Roadman for Halloween this year!
Social media and "linguistic concept collapse," indeed.
Random thought about how very ideological cardinal directions are, e.g., "East London" being where the London borough of Hackney is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_...
(from
@christianilbury.bsky.social's #uklvc15 plenary about the Roadman persona)
Ilbury & Walcott (under review) analyses how people contest the labels "Gen Z language" and "TikTok language" #uklvc15
P.S. Rianna Walcott is awesome: www.riannawalcott.com
Where would we be without Peter Trudgill to argue against?! Kind of like how he is so sure that identity has no effect on language change.
#uklvc15 -- Christian quotes Trudgill (paraphrased): there is no role of social media in answering theoretical questions in linguistics.
::eyeroll::
