Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at @UoYLangLing • sociophonetics • language variation and change • ultrasound tongue imaging • dialectology/Twittalectology
England, UK
Joined November 2009
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Should I have spent so many hours this week developing an IPA countdown game? Probably not, but here it is anyway: grbails.shinyapps.io/ipa-cou… I tested it out in a seminar last week and it went down a treat, so feel free to use it in any introductory phonetics classes! ⌚️🗣️
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Dr George Bailey (@grbails) spoke to an audience of over 850 people, mostly English Language A-level students, last week at the English and Media Centre conference, showing how AI and machine learning can reveal patterns of dialect change in the North of England.
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FREE registration for the 2025 York English English Language Toolkit is now open!
The outline programme and registration link are at: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.…
The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online!
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📣Save the date: This year's York English Language Toolkit workshop will be on *Friday 11th July*, with the option to attend in person in York or online. FREE registration will open by the start of the summer term!
🎁 Struggling for gift ideas this festive season?
Consider giving someone the gift of knowledge, and sending them my latest journal article: the fourth and final study from my PhD—on ternary variation in (ing)—is out now in LVC! @CambUP_LangLing
📖➡️ doi.org/10.1017/S09543945240…
Not quite the heights of last year’s 45.2k, but I’m nothing if not consistent. Perks of having a long commute 🎧
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🧠Vocabulary has always been a marker of social class in British society – but the way we speak now is becoming much more fluid, writes Ed Cumming
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10…
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@NatalieBraber and I have published in an article in the Conversation, building on work with @grbails and @EddieOHaraBrown published in EWW here- jbe-platform.com/content/jou…, showing that what we think we know about ‘posh’ words is all wrong!
Research shows our understanding of ‘posh’ words is all wrong, by Professor @NatalieBraber and Dr @sandow_linguist for @ConversationUK @ntuhum #linguistics #research
theconversation.com/research…
In the last two weeks I’ve now been:
(1) Promoted to senior lecturer 🧓
(2) Asked for my ID to buy paracetamol 👶
The duality of man
Aurora borealis? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within my garden?
Quick, new cow sociolinguistics has just dropped: doi.org/10.1017/S00474045240…
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I’ve got something in my eye 🥹
“This is it, this is happening”
Tickets on sale this Saturday 31st August (🇮🇪8AM IST / 🇬🇧9AM BST)
Dates:
Cardiff Principality Stadium - 4th/5th July
Manchester Heaton Park - 11th/12th/19th/20th July
London Wembley Stadium - 25th/26th July & 2nd/3rd August
Edinburgh Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium - 8th/9th August
Dublin Croke Park - 16th/17th August
An unexpected flavour of home today in Turton’s paper on rhoticity at @NEW10_Chester (context: I’m married to WendyJ!)
📋 If you have a spare 5-10 mins, a student on my undergraduate LVC module is conducting a survey about attitudes towards youth language use in the UK: forms.gle/N6vmLQ4EZf4UEB6M7 RTs appreciated!
Looking forward to being involved in this again - always a great day speaking with A-Level teachers at our CPD workshop and spreading the linguistics love 💙
Spoke to @bbcbitesize about the phonetics of ‘cute words’ 🥰 (also featuring @HazelLinguist) bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/…
