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Professor of Phonetics at @UniofReading & @UniRdg_EngLang, NTF, SFHEA, FRSA. Author, Your Voice Speaks Volumes. [email protected]. Menopausal. She/her.
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Joined July 2009
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An excellent gift for anyone interested in (British English) speech, accents, voice quality and their link with identity and cultural stereotyping. Or so I’m told … 😉
#language #linguistics #EngLang
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If you’d like to hear my musings on RP and creaky voice, you’ll enjoy this podcast!
morejamtomorrow.com/episode/…
If all goes to plan, I’ll be on Times Radio at 11:20pm GMT tonight (2 Nov) on the topic of “the increasing number of (British) children adopting American slang and accent as a result of the media they consume”.
Unboxing video! My copies of the Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice, co-edited with Sender Dovchin and Vijay Ramjattan, have finally arrived! Available at all good booksellers. 😊 global.oup.com/academic/prod…
Honoured to interview Prof David Crystal for the 60th Anniversary of Linguistics at Reading! View the entire conversation here.
youtu.be/j63j2OjVgmI?si=YXzo…
Out now! The Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice, co-edited with @SDovchin and @Vijay_Ramjattan, is available here and from all good booksellers: global.oup.com/academic/prod…
Turns out the youth of today refers to fashion as “drip”. This seems to derive from describing people who wear a lot of items from top fashion houses as “dripping with it”.
Every day is a school day.
Owing to this morning’s sad news, this is not going ahead.
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If all goes to plan, I’ll be on @bbc5live at around 10:30am tomorrow (21/04/2025) contributing to a discussion about names.
If all goes to plan, I’ll be on @bbc5live at around 10:30am tomorrow (21/04/2025) contributing to a discussion about names.
Another example of how the media - and a respected institution such as the BBC - perpetuates negative stereotypes about #English #accents. #englang
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025…
I’m quoted here - and it was a long time ago I talked to the Guardian! huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/z…
#English #pronunciation
Wishing all my followers who celebrate it health and happiness in the Year of the Snake!
#LunarNewYear2025 #YearOfTheSnake
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TODAY (Fri 17th Jan 2025)! I will be on BBC Radio 5 Live with Nicky Campbell talking about (what else?) how English accents are perceived from 10am UK time.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:b…
Be quick! Catch me on BBC Radio Leicester just after 8am UK time this morning, talking again about accents in #TheTraitorsUK. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:b…
Time now moved earlier to 14:05.
TODAY (8th Jan)! I'll be on BBC Radio Berkshire talking about accents and #TheTraitorsUK from about 14.15 UK time. I'll be chatting with Katie Tyler. Follow this link to listen live:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:b…
TODAY (8th Jan)! I'll be on BBC Radio Berkshire talking about accents and #TheTraitorsUK from about 14.15 UK time. I'll be chatting with Katie Tyler. Follow this link to listen live:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:b…
Very pleased to have taken on the role of the Secretary to the Association of National Teaching Fellows! You can find the committee members list here. @NTF_Tweet
ntf-association.com/about/co…
I was asked by @LDNdailynews to suggest how to pronounce some of London's most challenging place names, without using phonetic symbols. Here's the result!
londondaily.news/londons-mos…
#English #pronunciation #EngLang #London #phoneticnames
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Congrats to @Eldin_Milak & @AnaTankosic for breaking the ground! From Chomsky, Labov to @sureshcanax, Pennycook … Pre-order below! A must read! @CurtinEducation @CurtinLibrary routledge.com/Becoming-a-Lin…
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Jane is making the most of opportunities while she’s on secondment in Japan. Here’s a news article from the Kobe Gakuin University website (you may find Google Translate helpful!):
kobegakuin.ac.jp/education/f…