Language Variation Phonological levelling, diffusion & divergence in Liverpool and its hinterland
Summary: The project, coordinated by Dr Kevin Watson and Professor Paul Kerswill, will investigate the roles of and interaction between linguistic and non-linguistic factors in accent levelling, geographical diffusion and phonological divergence in the north-west of England, by examining the varieties of English spoken in three localities in the Merseyside region: Liverpool, arguably the most well-recognised and stereotyped accent in the area, Skelmersdale, a new town which has been subjected to migration from Liverpool, and St Helens, a smaller town which, because of changes in country boundaries, is variably affiliated with Merseyside and Lancashire.
Key Facts
Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/phono_levelling/index.htm
Funder: ESRC
Type of Activity: Academic Research - Externally Funded
Principal Investigator: Kevin Watson
Consultant: Paul Kerswill
Dept/Research Groups: Linguistics and English Language, Language Variation and Linguistic Theory (LVLT)
Keywords: English phonetics, Phonetics, Sociophonetics, Sociolinguistics, Phonology
Purpose of Research
Academic Research - Externally Funded
Project Funder
ESRC
Associated News Stories
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give invited talk at the Poznan Linguistics Meeting
Date: 2 May 2011
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give an invited paper at the workshop on 'Experimental Approaches to Sociolinguistics', being held at the Poznan Linguis ... Read more»
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give paper at the 'Variation and Language Processing' Conference
Date: 11 April 2011
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give a paper at the first 'Variation and Language Processing' conference (VaLP2011), being held at the University of Che ... Read more»
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give invited talk at Sheffield Hallam
Date: 29 March 2011
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give invited talk at Sheffield Hallam's Language Seminar Series, entitled:"Sociolinguistics, salience & statistics: ... Read more»
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark present a talk at NWAV39
Date: 3 November 2010
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark presented a talk called 't-to-r in British English: on frequency, constructions and sociolinguistics' at the New Ways of ... Read more»
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give invited talk at University of York
Date: 1 November 2010
Kevin Watson and Lynn Clark gavea guest lectureat the University of York. The talk was called 'Sociolinguistic and cognitive linguistic approaches to ... Read more»
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark run workshop for A Level students at Stockport College
Date: 13 October 2010
Kevin Watson and Lynn Clark ran a workshop for A Level English Language students at Stockport College. The workshop was about accent variation in the ... Read more»
Associated Events
LVLT talk: 'Sociolinguistics, salience and statistics: outlining some new directions in language attitude research' Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark
Date: 10 March 2011 Time: 12.00-1.00
The LVLT talk this week will be given byKevin Watson & Lynn ClarkTitle: Sociolinguistics, salience and statistics: outlining some new directions i ... Read more»
LVLT workshop on using RBrul (Lynn Clark)
Date: 16 December 2010 Time: 9.30 - 11.30am
As part of the LVLT research group, Lynn Clark is running a workshop about using RBrul. Rbrul (Johnson 2009) runs on the R environment and allows the ... Read more»
LVLT meeting: Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark '/t/s and /r/s and t-to-r in Northern British English'
Date: 28 October 2010 Time: 12.00-1.00
Meeting of the Language Variation and Linguistic Theory Research GroupKevin Watson & Lynn Clark will give a talk called/t/s and /r/s and t-to-r in ... Read more»