Language Variation 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 north west of England, covering issues to do with prestige, phonological change, and the representation of accent in literature. The workshop also involved some preliminary results of Kevin and Lynn's current research project, funded by the ESRC.
News website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/phono_levelling/index.htm
Further information
Associated staff: Lynn Clark (Linguistics and English Language), Kevin Watson
Associated projects: Phonological levelling, diffusion & divergence in Liverpool and its hinterland
Associated departments and research centres: Language Variation and Linguistic Theory (LVLT), Linguistics and English Language