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SUMMARY: Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects - Adria
 n Leemann (Lancaster University)
DTSTART:20170504T153000Z
DTEND:20170504T173000Z
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CONTACT:Giulia Bovolenta
DESCRIPTION:What do you call an animal that carries its house on its back 
 – hoddy-doddy\, dod-man\, or snail? Do you think these terms have change
 d over the past decades? We set out to collect data to analyze how English
  dialects have evolved using 21st century methods. We developed the app En
 glish Dialects (www.englishdialectapp.com)\, a free iOS and Android app th
 at asks users to self-report usage of a number of linguistic variables –
  such as the example above – and then tells them where they are from bas
 ed on their dialects. The app further allows users to record their speech 
 by reading out loud ‘The boy who cried wolf’ passage. This new approac
 h is currently producing a large volume of dialect data (more than 40\,000
  people have participated) and thus a more comprehensive atlas of English 
 dialects than any since the ‘Survey of English Dialects’. In this talk
  I will present first results on language change and discuss broader impli
 cations for language variation and change as well for forensic phonetics.\
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LOCATION:GR06/7\, English Faculty\, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site)
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