Language Variation Paul Kerswill speaks at the Lancashire Society's Dialect Day, and judges performances
Date: 16 October 2010
Paul gave a lecture entitled "London's multicultural Cockney: the new voice of the nation?" to the annual Dialect Day meeting of the Lancashire Society in Chorley. Afterwards, he judged 25 dialect performances by people from the Lancashire, Lakeland, East Lincolnshire and Devon societies. Some 45 people attended.
Further information
Associated staff: Paul Kerswill
Associated projects: Multicultural London English: the emergence, acquisition and diffusion of a new variety
Associated departments and research centres: Language Variation and Linguistic Theory (LVLT), Linguistics and English Language