I recently had another book review published in the Voice and Speech Review. In this, I look at Now You’re Talking by Trevor Cox (2018), a fascinating book that examines human speech and conversation right from the earliest biological roots to the profound impact of technological advancements on our voices today.
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Very excited that a recent article I co-authored with Dr James Grama and Professor Catherine Travis of Sydney Speaks has been accepted and published online with the Voice and Speech Review! Our article is titled “Australian English Over Time: Using Sociolinguistic Analysis to Inform Dialect Coaching”, and brings together acoustic vowel data spanning forty years to examine the changes in Sydney English, and how this can apply to coaching of Australian accents. This is my first research publication, and I’m thrilled to be able to share this after all our hard work.
Continue reading “We’re published!”Book review: Second Dialect Acquisition
Excited to share that I recently had a book review published with the Voice and Speech Review, an international journal for the dialect and voice industry. I reviewed Jeff Siegel’s 2010 book “Second Dialect Acquisition”, which is a seminal work in the sociolinguistic and SDA fields.
Continue reading “Book review: Second Dialect Acquisition”Australian Linguistic Society annual conference
I’ve just wrapped up an insightful and engaging week at the Australian Linguistic Society annual conference, held this year at Macquarie University.
I presented as part of the fourth Language Variation and Change workshop, in collaboration with my colleagues Professor Catherine Travis and James Grama at the ANU. Our paper looked at methodological approaches for constructing social classes in sociolinguistic analysis, focusing on speakers of Sydney English. Our paper was well received, and our audience (comprising some of the foremost variationist researchers and sociophoneticians in Australia and internationally!) gave helpful feedback and suggestions for moving forward–I always appreciate the constructive academic environment that is fostered by fellow members of the linguistics field.
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