Can accents change without in-person contact? My new chapter with Dr Ella Jeffries shows they can! We tracked first-year university students during Covid when learning and social activities were all online. If they had regular contact with new people, change was possible. brill.com/edcollchap-o...
Can young people in South East England identify where in the region others are from based only on their accent? My first post on Bluesky is a new paper alert! I explore methodological advancements in dialect identification tasks. Available Open Access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Amanda Cole
Amanda Cole
This study presents a dialect identification task in which 191 listeners drew on a digital map around the area(s) they thought 99 speakers were from and provided evaluative responses based on speech ....
