If you speak, you have an accent.

That one when you’re on radio to talk about dismantling concepts of “correct” grammar and someone texts in: “Try getting someone who can speak correctly if you’re going to talk about grammar”
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Lang & Ling
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If you’re craving NWAV content, check out our latest PWPL with papers from last year in Oregon! repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol26/iss…
Authors on Twitter include Derek Denis🦦🦥,Alexandra D'Arcy,Carmen Ciancia,Charlie,Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her), @[email protected],Katie Drager,Abby Walker,Suzanne Evans Wagner
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Happy to announce that Peter Patrick and I have a paper out in the latest issue of Penn Working Papers in Linguistics on the sociolinguistic profile of (t,d) deletion in East Anglian English: repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol26/iss… Thanks to the editors Ruaridh Purse and Yosiane White.

Our new episode is out, featuring Dr. Ella Jeffries, Ella Jeffries 🙌🏻🎈 Learn more about accents, accent perception and our attitudes! We also talk about Bilingualism Matters new campaign #AccentPositivity : mlstpodcast.wordpress.com/2020/11/26/epi…

Should I have spent so many hours this week developing an IPA countdown game? Probably not, but here it is anyway: grbails.shinyapps.io/ipa-countdown/ I tested it out in a seminar last week and it went down a treat, so feel free to use it in any introductory phonetics classes! ⌚️🗣️

My PhD thesis on 'Language shift or maintenance in Tamazight: a sociolinguistic study of Chaouia in Batna, Algeria' is available to download through: repository.essex.ac.uk/28557/

My latest article: Palestinian dialects and identities shifting across physical and virtual borders degruyter.com/view/journals/…

Very many congratulations to Peter Patrick, winner of the Faculty of Social Sciences Supervisor of the Year.

Well done and very well deserved!

It’s not redundant. Otherwise it wouldn’t be used. Maybe we should try ringing a bell every time this headmaster says the equally redundant ‘kind of’, ‘sort of, or ‘you know’ (middle-aged ‘like’). Full thread from Ian Cushing here: twitter.com/ian_cushing/st…

A link to a list of anti-racist resources, including a section on race and racism in the UK specifically.
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Congratulations to Siham Rouabah for passing her viva! The title of her thesis is: 'Language shift or maintenance in Tamazight: A sociolinguistic study of Chaouia in Batna, Algeria.'

Bill Labov gave a talk on 'Justice as a Linguistic Matter' youtu.be/cr5tyw8_gT0
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‘We are on the eve of a genocide’: Brazil urged to save Amazon tribes from Covid-19 theguardian.com/world/2020/may…

We're pleased to announce that registration for the workshop on 'Implications for Professional Recruiting' is now live!

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Reaser: We've been saying dialects are differences not deficits in education for DECADES - but still our education systems respond to dialect differences as problems. Why is knowledge not enough? #LSA2020

'Any foodbank which wishes to sign up to the app must first pay a fee of £180' independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

This feels like a punch in the gut to everyone who has immigrated here.

We found that accent attitudes found 50 years ago remain today. In fact, the same accents continue to attract high prestige and the same urban working class and ethnic accents attract low prestige.

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