Mancunians at Methods in Dialectology

The programme for Methods in Dialectology XV, 11th-15th August 2014 in Groningen, is packed with current and former Manchester linguists. We’ve got:

• Lecturer Maciej Baranowski on The sociolinguistics of back vowel fronting in Manchester English
• SALC senior language tutor Rasha Solaiman on Mutual intelligibility between the Arabic dialects
• Former research associate Nicholas Flynn on Potential pitfalls when choosing to normalize
• The crack team of Laurel MacKenzie, George Bailey and Danielle Turton on Crowdsourcing dialectology in the undergraduate classroom
• PhD alumnus Jonathan Morris on The Future of Welsh Dialects? The Effects of Societal
  Changes on (r) Variation in Northern Welsh
• Postgrad Danielle Turton on /l/-darkening in varieties of English: A dialectological approach to articulatory variation, in a workshop co-organized by PhD alum Patrycja Strycharczuk
• Former lecturer Benedikt Szmrecsanyi on Corpus-based dialectometry: why and how (with Freiburg’s Christoph Wolk)
• Baranowski and Turton again, on Linguistic and social constraints on consonantal variation in Manchester English

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