Language Variation Dr Kevin Watson
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Research Activities
Previous Research Activities
Lenition in 'old Scouse': a corpus study of Liverpool English plosives
Phonological influences on children's spelling mistakes
Phonological levelling, diffusion & divergence in Liverpool and its hinterland
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Kevin Watson has 2 selected publication records listed on this webpage.
Previous Events
The 6th UK Language Variation and Change Conference, 11 -13 September 2007
GaL talk: Doing gender phonetically: indexical information in phonology (Kevin Watson), 8 November 2007
Speech RG talk: Francis Katamba, 8 November 2007
Guest Lecture: Anne Wichman 'Prosody and Discourse Markers in English', 29 November 2007
Speech RG: Eivind Torgersen - How to do resynthesis and make perception tests in Praat, 13 December 2007
Conference for Teachers of A Level English Language, 26 June 2009
Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 29 October 2009
Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 5 November 2009
Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 12 November 2009
Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 26 November 2009
Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 3 December 2009
Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 10 December 2009
LVLT talk: "An investigation of rhythm in London English" Eivind Torgersen & Anita Szakay, 28 June 2010
Workshop by guest speaker Dr Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary, London) 'Sociolinguistic fieldwork in an urban contact context', 26 October 2010
Guest lecture by Dr Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary, London) 'Dialect and social change in London Asian English', 26 October 2010
LVLT meeting: Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark '/t/s and /r/s and t-to-r in Northern British English', 28 October 2010
LVLT talk: Jen Nycz (York) 'Testing phonological theory with second dialect data', 9 December 2010
LVLT talk: Dr Yoshiyuki Asahi 'Japanese and British contributions to sociolinguistic typology', 16 December 2010
News
Undergraduates present at UKLVC conference, 4 September 2009
ESRC research grant success, 4 September 2009
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark run workshop for A Level students at Stockport College, 13 October 2010
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give invited talk at University of York, 1 November 2010
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark present a talk at NWAV39, 3 November 2010
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give invited talk at Sheffield Hallam, 29 March 2011
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give paper at the 'Variation and Language Processing' Conference, 11 April 2011
Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give invited talk at the Poznan Linguistics Meeting, 2 May 2011
Paul Kerswill interviewed in the Economist about the future of dialects, 2 June 2011
Keywords
Cognitive linguistics, Corpora and sociolinguistics/discourse, Corpora of nonstandard languages, Dialect, English language, English phonetics, Language, Language change, Language variation and change, Linguistics, Migration and diaspora, Phonetics, Phonological theory, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Spoken language corpora
Associated Research Centres and Groups
Centre for Language in Social Life
Cognitive Linguistics
Language Variation and Linguistic Theory (LVLT)