Presentations

2012	'Affricates are contour segments: evidence from morpheme-edge epenthesis in Serbo-Croat and English.' Presented at the twentieth Manchester Phonology Meeting fringe workshop on Segmental Architecture, Manchester.
2012	'The strangeness of verhauchung: coda lenition-inhibition and the effect of phonological structure on the innovation of phonological change.' Presented at the Eighth Old World Conference in Phonology, Berlin.
2011	'Ts, Hs, THs and Rs: categorical frequency effects in the phonology of English.' English Language Research Group, University of Edinburgh.
2011	'Splitting "intervocalic" - the first steps.' Presented at SynFonIJA 4, Budapest. [With Katalin Balgone Berces].
2011	'Not another case of final obstruent voicing? Laryngeal Realism, Late Middle English and impossible phonological change.' Presented at the Eighth Old World Conference in Phonology, Marrakesh.
2011	'Small but significant: English post-tonic pre-onset s-neutralisation as a systematic gap.' Presented as an invited talk at the University of Manchester
2010	'How symmetrical are English vowels?' English Language Research Group, University of Edinburgh.
2010	'Acquisitionism and hearer-bias in phonological change: why they must be wrong.' Presented as an invited talk to the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tromsø.
2010	'T-to-R and the NSR in Northern English and Southern Scots.' Presented at the fourth Northern Englishes Workshop, University of Sheffield. [With Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan, Anders Holmberg, Warren Maguire & April McMahon].
2010	'A non-predictable template with subsegmental specification: diddificating truncation in Liverpool English.' Presented at the Seventh Old World Conference in Phonology, University of Nice.
2010	''T-to-R' and the 'Northern Subject Rule': dialect convergence and divergence across the Anglo-Scottish border.' Presented at the Conference on Borders and Identities, Newcastle upon Tyne. [With Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan, Anders Holmberg, Warren Maguire & April McMahon].
2009	'Putting the fun into phonology? Practical and resource-based phonetics and phonology in intro-level courses.' Presented at the LAGB Student Committee / Subject Centre for LLAS Session on Teaching in Linguistics at the 2009 Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Edinburgh.
2009	'T-to-R and the Northern Subject Rule: Introspection, Production and Variation.' Presented at the Seventh UK Language Variation and Change Conference, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. [With Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan, Anders Holmberg, Warren Maguire & April McMahon].
2009	'History and historical linguistics: two types of cognitive reconstruction?' Presented as an invited talk to Language and History Interdisciplinary Seminar, University of Oxford. [download a copy of the handout]
2009	'The privative project: its history and basis.' Presented at the Sixth Old World Conference on Phonology Workshop on the Privative Project, University of Edinburgh. [With Bert Botma and John Anderson]. [download a copy of the handout]
2008	'Butties from the chippy outside Sevvie: templatic phonology in Liverpool English.' Presented as an invited talk to the Bangor Linguistics Circle, Bangor University. [With Nicola Gandy].
2008	'Scouse diddification (or, how does 'hospital' become 'ozzie'?) Templatic phonology in Liverpool English.' Presented at the PAC Workshop 2008: Structure and Variation in English Phonology, University of Toulouse-le Mirail. [With Nicola Gandy].
2008	'History and historical linguistics: independence and connections.' Presented as an invited talk at the AHRC-HiSoN interdisciplinary Workshop on History and Linguistics, Linguistics and Historiography, University of Bristol. [download a copy of the handout]
2008	'Writing Scouse right (Or: Ricing Scouse rice) How accurate is Scouse dialect literature?' Presented as an invited talk at the Celebrating Scouse event, University of Liverpool.
2008	'Why Language Variation and Change needs Phonological Theory.' Presented as an invited talk in the special session on (Socio)linguistic Theory at the Third  Northern Englishes Workshop, University of Salford. [download a copy of the handout]
2007	'When and where does language change? Syntax, phonology, acquisition and diachrony.' Presented as an invited talk to the Cambridge University Linguistic Society, University of Cambridge.
2007	'Diachronic tendencies in historical phonology: evidence for absolute principles or violable constraints? The case of "secondary contractions" in Northern English.' Presented at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Université du Québec à Montréal.
2007	'Is word-frequency a factor in phonological demergers? The sociophonology of SQUARE and NURSE in Lancashire English' Presented at the Second International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Toulouse le Mirail. [With Will Barras & Graeme Trousdale]. [download a copy of the handout]
2006	'Asymmetries in assimilation in English through the ages: new directions for the laryngeal phonology of English obstruents.' Presented at the Directions in English Language Studies conference, University of Manchester. [With Marleen Spaargaren].
2006	'Why everyone should be interested in Northern English "t-to-r".' Presented at the Northern Englishes Workshop, Lancaster University. [download a copy of the handout]
2006	'Revisiting the Development of the Fricative Contrast in English; or ... when is an "f" not an "f" - and how did it become a "v"?' Presented as an invited talk in the Language and Linguistics Invited Speakers Programme, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
2006	'When is an "f" not an "f" - and how did it become a "v"? The diachronic description and development of fricatives in English.' Presented as an invited talk to the Centre for Linguistic Research, University of Aberdeen.
2006	'An exception to the burst sound shift.' MILC 8. [download a copy of the abstract]
2006	'Disagreeing with AGREE - sharing and subsegmental theory.' Presented as a poster at the Third Old World Conference in Phonology, ELTE and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. [download a copy of the handout]
2005	'Segmental structure and phonological change: the irrelevance of acquisition.' Presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2005	'Scouse spelling? Sociolinguistic salience and Contemporary Humorous Localised Dialect Literature' Presented as an invited talk in the English Language seminar series, University of Liverpool.
2005	'Variation in English accents and problems with panlectal generalisations: "the phonology of English" or "the phonologies of Englishes"?' Presented as an invited talk to the winter conference of the Linguistic Society of Korea, Korea University, Seoul.
2005	'Spelling accents with sociolinguistic salience: Contemporary Humorous Localised Dialect Literature in Britain.' Presented as an invited talk to the winter conference of the English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Chosun University, Gwangju.
2004	'Laryngeal inheritance and borrowing: a new view of the development of the English fricative "voicing" contrast.' Presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Vienna.
2004	'The secret life of 'voicing' in fricatives.' Presented as an invited talk to the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tromsø.
2004	'Influences in Liverpool English Koineisation.' Presented at the Symposium on the Influence of the Languages of Ireland and Scotland on Linguistic Varieties in Northern England, University of Aberdeen. [download a copy of the article which has superseded this]
2004	'The rise of Optimality Theory in mid-twentieth century London.' Presented as an invited talk to the Linguistic Circle, University of Edinburgh. [download a copy of the handout]
2004	'The (continuing) development of Scouse: language meets history, society and culture.' Presented as an invited talk at the Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Liverpool and Merseyside Studies, Liverpool John Moores University. [With Kevin Watson].
2003	'Geordie reetwriting and Scouse ricewriting: issues in the orthographic representation of non-reference varieties of English.' Presented at the Fourth UK Language Variation and Change Conference, University of Sheffield.
2003	'Markedness and directionality in change: Old English fricatives and Inner-German stops.' Presented at the Autumn meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Oxford.
2003	'Doing the impossible: voicing, aspiration and phonological change.' Presented at the XVIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Copenhagen.
2003	'Old English fricatives and change in laryngeal specifications.' Poster presented at the Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting.
2003	'Linguistic antipurism: contemporary non-standard English orthographies (or: what's the difference between Geordie and Scouse?).' Presented at the Conference on Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages, University of Bristol.
2003	'When is a /t/ not a /t/? Obstruent laryngeal specifications and diachronic change.' Presented as an invited talk at a meeting of the Philological Society, Downing College , University of Cambridge.
2003	'Laryngeal specifications in obstruents: evidence from segmental change.' Presented at the First Old World Conference in Phonology, University of Leiden .
2003	'Should we degeminate the Second Sound Shift?' Presented at the Joint meeting of the Forum for Germanic Language Studies and the Society for Germanic Linguistics, King's College London.
2002	'Another difference between prosody and melody: patterns in process inhibition.' Presented as an invited talk at the Ninth International Phonology Meeting, University of Vienna.
2002	'Where did you get that [x]? The introduction of consonantal lenition into Liverpool English.' Presented at the Autumn meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, UMIST.
2002	'Endogeny and exogeny - the start of Scouse (affrico-)spirantisation.' Presented at the Twelfth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Glasgow University.
2002	'Liverpool English, visarga in pausa and the phonetics-phonology divide.' Presented at the Toulouse Conference on English Phonology,University of Toulouse le Mirail. [With Kevin Watson].
2002	'Visarga in pausa in Liverpool English.' Poster presented at the Tenth Manchester Phonology Meeting. [With Kevin Watson].
2002	' "t -> h" in Liverpool English. Or, when is a process not a process? Visiting Speakers Programme, Department of English Literary and Linguistic Studies, University of Newcastle.
2001	'The phonological potential of domain-final /t/ in Liverpool English.' Presented at the Autumn meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Reading. [With Kevin Watson].
2001	'Process-inhibition in historical phonology.' Presented at the XVth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
2000	'Lenition in Liverpool English.' Presented at the Linguistics and the English Language conference, University of Toulouse le Mirail.
2000	'When does synchrony become diachrony? The case of German dorsal fricatives.' Presented at the Eighth Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester.
2000	'German dorsal fricatives revisited - problematic segments and part-time assimilation.' Presented at the Spring meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University College London.
1999	'Prosodic weakness and phonological weakening: some problems of analysis.' Presented at the Inaugural Conference of the GDR Phonologie, University of Nice.
1999	'Affrication and laryngeal specifications: diachronic evidence in phonology.' Presented at the Spring meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Manchester.
1998	'I-language, E-language, phonology and change.' Durham Linguistics Colloquium series, University of Durham.
1998	'Germanic lenitions and phonological explanation.' Poster presented at the Sixth Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester.
1998	'Constraint creation and Gothic reduplication.' Presented at the Spring meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Lancaster.
1997	'The nature of constraints in Optimality Theory.' Presented at the Sixth Post-Graduate Conference in Linguistics, University of Manchester.
1997	'Is lenition naturally optimal?' Presented at the Post-Graduate Conference of the Centre for Research in Linguistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
1996	'If sounds don't change, what does?' Presented in the series: Language and Speech: Linguistic Theory and the Status of Phonology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
1996	'Does phonology change? Language, speech and representation.' Presented at the Fifth Post-Graduate Conference in Linguistics, University of Manchester.

Conferences and workshops organised

2012	Convenor and main organiser of the Twentieth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Unsolved Problems in Phonology. [website]
2012	Co-organiser of a fringe workshop, associated with the Twentieth Manchester Phonology Meeting, on Segmental Architecture. [With Bert Botma]. [website]
2011	Convenor and main organiser of the Nineteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Contrast in Phonology.
2010	Convenor and main organiser of the Eighteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Sociolinguistics, Variation and Phonology.
2009	Local co-organiser of the 2009 Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Edinburgh. [The LAGB's 50th Anniversary Jubilee Meeting.] [website]
2009	Convenor and main organiser of the Seventeenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled The History of Phonological Theory.
2009	Main organiser of the sixth Old World Conference in Phonology, University of Edinburgh. [website]
2009	Co-organiser of a workshop, associated with the sixth Old World Conference in Phonology, entitled The Privative Project: is it still worth Pursuing? [With Bert Botma]. [website]
2008	Convenor and main organiser of the Sixteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Phonology and the Mental Lexicon.
2007	Member of the Scientific Committee organising the second International Conference on Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail. [With Philip Carr, Jacques Durand, Bas Aarts, Devyani Sharma and Graeme Trousdale].
2007	Convenor and main organiser of the Fifteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Where is Allomorphy?
2006	Convenor and main organiser of the Fourteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Fieldwork and Phonological Theory.
2005	Co-organiser of the First International Conference on Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Edinburgh. [With Philip Carr, April McMahon, Heinz Giegerich, Nikolas Gisborne and Graeme Trousdale].
2005	Convenor and main organiser of the Thirteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled What is a Phonological Fact? [With Philip Carr and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero].
2004	Convenor and main organiser of the Twelfth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Phonology and Loan-word Adaptation. [With Philip Carr and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero].
2003	Convenor and main organiser of the Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session on Historical Phonology and Phonological Theory. [With Nigel Vincent and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero].
2003	Co-organiser of the conference on Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages, University of Bristol. [With Nils Langer].
2002	Co-organiser of the Toulouse Conference on English Phonology, University of Toulouse-le Mirail. [With Philip Carr].
2002	Convenor and main organiser of the Tenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled The Acquisition of Phonology. [With Philip Carr and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero].
2002	Local organiser of the Spring meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Edge Hill College.
2002	Co-organiser of the Third NWCL Research Training Workshop with the theme Researching talk: principles, practice and problems in the collection and analysis of spoken language data at Edge Hill College. [With Jo Arthur].
2001	Co-organiser of the Ninth Manchester Phonology Meeting and sole organiser of the special session entitled Phonology and Syntax - the Same or Different?
2000	Co-organiser of the special session at the Eighth Manchester Phonology Meeting on Segmental Markedness and Syllabic Position. [With Wiebke Brockhaus and Norval Smith].

 

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