Language Variation and Change Research Group
LVC is concerned with the description and explanation of language variation (regional, social) and language change employing methods from sociolinguistics, phonetics, corpus linguistics and historical linguistics.
Our activities include:
- discussion of recent published research
- discussion of members' own research
- the planning of projects based in the North West and elsewhere
Coordinator(s)
Meetings
Meetings are held fortnightly during term time.
| When | Where | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 31st October, 2pm | Bowland College B87a | Eivind Torgersen & Paul Kerswill (LAEL) | Perceiving ethnicity and place in Multicultural London English |
| Thursday 4th December, 2pm | Bowland North Seminar Room 4 | Philip Tipton (Essex) | Speech perception and sociolinguistic variation: synchrony, diachrony and Exemplar Theory |
| Friday 12th December, 2pm | Bowland North Seminar Room 1 | Jen Hay (Canterbury) | Coronal stop deletion revisited |