My MSc dissertation, The SQUARE-NURSE merger in Greater Manchester: the impact of social and spatial identity on phonological variation, is available here.
April 2008: "We would say 'a bit Gretnarish' and we'd put an r in": rhoticity and r-sandhi in East Lancashire speech. LEL Postgraduate Conference, Edinburgh.
July 2007: 'Is word-frequency a factor in phonological demergers? The sociophonology of SQUARE and NURSE in Lancashire English'. Second International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Toulouse le Mirail (with Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale). (Handout)
March 2007: "You are now IN Salford": the spread of a SQUARE/NURSE contrast in Greater Manchester. Second Northern Englishes Workshop, University of Edinburgh. Click here to view my presentation (it is 2.9MB so it may take a while to load all the slides). Alternatively, it's available as a series of images here.
June 2006: The Exhalations Whizzing In The Air: SQUARE and NURSE in Lancashire English. LANGUE Conference, University of Essex.
April 2006: The Exhalations Whizzing In The Air: SQUARE and NURSE in Lancashire English. LEL Postgraduate Conference, Edinburgh.
February 2006: SQUARE-NURSE. English Language Research Group, Edinburgh.
December 2005: NURSE-SQUARE research project. Language in Context Research Group, Edinburgh.
