York’s Department of Language and Linguistic Science at UKLVC14

Posted on 14 July 2023

York staff/students at the sociolinguistics conference

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science was very well represented at the recent UK Language Variation and Change 14 (UKLVC14) conference which took place at the University of Edinburgh from 26th to 28th June 2023.

The programme included the following talks by LLS staff:

Dr George Bailey (with Dr Stephen Nichols): ‘An articulatory study of /s/-retraction: How does thish change behave across word boundaries?’
Dr Claire Childs: ‘Morpho-syntactic co-variation in English dialects’
Prof. Paul Kerswill (with Dr Christian Ilbury): ‘How multiethnic is a multiethnolect? The recontextualisation of Multicultural London English’

There were also several poster presentations delivered by LLS staff and PhD students:

Amereh Almossa - ‘Discourse-pragmatic variation and change of TAYYIB in Najdi Arabic’
Dr Vincent Hughes, Prof. Carmen Llamas and Dr Thomas Kettig - ‘Typicality and regional salience: Results from a gamified experiment on speaker recognition’
Dr Jessica Wormald, Prof. Paul Foulkes, Dr Philip Harrison, Dr Vincent Hughes and Dr Chenzi Xu (with Dr David van der Vloed, Dr Finnian Kelly and Prof. Francis Nolan) - ‘Analysing vocal settings to help understand segmental variation’
Leila Yaqoub and Prof. Sam Hellmuth - ‘A sociophonetic study of the velar stop /k/ in the dialect of Rijal Alma Arabic’

The next UKLVC conference will take place at the University of Lancaster in 2025.

“The conference was a fantastic event to be able to showcase our department’s work in language variation and change, with talks/posters spanning phonetic, grammatical and discourse-pragmatic variation. Looking forward to the next one!” - Dr Claire Childs