Accent Variation in Scotland
Occasional posts about and related to interdisciplinary research on Accent Variation in Scotland. Led by Dr Sonja Schaeffler at CASL, QMU, Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/CASL-at-QMU -- #speech #sociolinguistics #socialcognition #accents #dialect #CASL #QMU
- Oh hooray and huge congratulations to @adrianleemann.bsky.social and his team! Very exciting to see a big dialect project getting the go-ahead! Also, brilliant project name! 😂 Recording L2 speakers pronouncing that would make a lovely project in itself! #dialects
- Reposted by Accent Variation in Scotland💡 The idea that children drive language change is widely accepted — but does it hold up? New research co-authored by Dr Vera Kempe challenges this view, showing little evidence that child-led innovations spread through communities. Read more: www.mpi.nl/publications...
- Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... www.mpi.nl/publications...
- Our wee 'Accent Variation in Scotland/ by Scots' delegation at #UKLVC15.
- Very proud of our PhD students who did a great job presenting their work! 🎉 Janet Coulson with "Caught in the act: Capturing interactional style-shifting in bidialectal speakers through improvisation" And Ciera Haggar with "Characteristics Influence Listener Perceptions of Personality"
- Talking of -isms!!
- Reposted by Accent Variation in Scotland🚌 New paper out on the dynamics of saying goodbye to and thanking bus drivers in rural vs. urban settings. Published in Journal of Pragmatics – w/ Jonathan Culpeper of @lancslinguistics.bsky.social. @snf-ch.bsky.social. @unibern.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #sociolinguistics
