Selected talks and posters
Northern roots: Random forests and northern English dialect levelling revisited
(2025) Paper presented at UKLVC15
The development of the infant vocal tract: An ultrasound study
(2025) Paper presented at the 46th International Child Phonology Conference
An articulatory study of /s/-retraction: How does thish change behave across word boundaries?
(2023) Paper presented at UKLVC14
Post-lexical /s, z/-retraction in Manchester English: An ultrasound-tongue-imaging and lip-camera study
(2022) Paper presented at Ultrafest X
Tweetin' in your own voice: Parallels between written and spoken (ing)
(2021) Paper presented at NWAV49
Mapping the Mancunian Way: Dialectal variation and levelling in Greater Manchester
(2021) Paper presented at UKLVC13
Computational approaches to British English dialectology
(2021) Invited plenary presented at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics
[ʃ]tranger things have happened: Retraction in (str) and (stj) clusters in Manchester English
(2019) Invited talk at the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics
When sound change isn’t led by social change: The case of Northern English (ng)
(2018) Invited talk at the Philological Society meeting on ‘Language change in its socio-historical context’
Revealing covert articulation in s-retraction
(2018) Paper presented at the 2018 LAGB Annual Meeting
Gradience and categoricity in s-retraction: An ultrasound study of Manchester English
(2018) Poster presented at the 2018 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians
Retraction on Coronation [ʃ]treet: An ultrasound-tongue-imaging study of s-retraction in Manchester English
(2018) Paper presented at the 8th Northern Englishes Workshop
Emerging from below the social radar: Evaluation of post-nasal [g] in the North West of England
(2018) Paper presented at the 8th Northern Englishes Workshop
Synchronic evidence for diachronic pathways of change: /g/-deletion and the life cycle of phonological processes
(2017) Paper presented at the 4th Formal Ways of Analysing Variation
A stationary frequency effect in Manchester English
(2016) Paper presented at the 2016 LAGB Annual Meeting
Regional variation in 140 characters: mapping geospatial tweets
(2016) Invited talk at the Workshop on Using Twitter for Linguistic Research
A constant rate effect in Manchester /t/-glottalling: High-frequency words are ahead of, but change at the same rate as, low-frequency words
(2015) Paper presented at the 2nd Edinburgh Symposium of Historical Phonology
Orthographic reflections of (ing): A Twitter-based corpus study
(2015) Poster presented at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics
Automatic detection of sociolinguistic variation in forced-alignment
(2015) Paper presented at NWAV44
Linguistic markers of England's north-south dialectal divide: An attitudinal study of bath and strut
(2015) Poster presented at UKLVC10
East Fife, four... Forfar, five: Intonation of the classified football results
(2014) Paper presented at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics
Crowdsourcing dialectology in the undergraduate classroom
(2014) Paper presented at Methods in Dialectology XV
