Hot on the heels of the UK Language Variation and Change, London is hosting the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. Keeping Virgin Trains in business, a rather large Mancunian contingent is in attendance, with the following contributions:
Juliette Angot
The meanings of je pense and je crois in French interaction
Stephen Nichols and Henri Kauhanen
Vowel-pair rank- frequency distributions are polylogarithmic
Stefano Coretta
Kaiyue Xing
Rhoticity in Mandarin Chinese: An articulatory study
Emily Hanink
A phrasal analysis of explicit comparatives in Fijian
Maria Chioti
The effect of priming on accent-attitudes: an investigation of their affective and cognitive bases
Tine Breban
Diagnosing grammatical change in English
Featured image: Kaiyue, Juliette, Stephen, Stefano, Mary, Tine and Emily at the conference.
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Posted on September 12, 2019 by manling