PhD placements students Andrew Booth and Sarah Rowan write:
Episode 1
The first episode of Linguistics at the Library introduces the British Library’s Evolving English Collection, which is a sound archive capturing the diversity of English accents and dialects. Podcast hosts Andrew Booth and Rowan Campbell are working with this archive as part of a PhD placement, and every few weeks will be bringing you a fresh discussion about linguistics and how to identify different accents.
This week’s ‘What’s the feature?’ used a clip from:
BBC Voices Recording in Newcastle. BBC, UK, rec. 2005 [digital audio file]. British Library, C1190/32/01. Available: sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialec…1190X0023XX-0101V0
Interesting links:
The glottal stop in Glasgow: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…ogenised-london
The Bristol ‘l’: blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/20…n-idea-dialect.html
An in-depth look at the Newcastle accent: www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sou…ase-studies/geordie/
Follow Rowan and Andrew on Twitter on @VoicesofEnglish
Linguistics at the Library Episode 1
Andrew Booth and Rowan Campbell
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