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SUMMARY:The end of English dialects? Findings from the English Dialect App
  - Tam Blaxter (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20171010T200000Z
DTEND:20171010T203000Z
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CONTACT:Alisa Molotova
DESCRIPTION:Language is a topic close to everyone's heart: we are all acut
 ely aware of how we speak\, how those around us speak\, and what the diffe
 rences reveal about our social and geographical backgrounds. Yet shrinking
  humanities funding has meant that mapping speech across whole countries h
 as been practically impossible for several decades. In 2016\, a team at th
 e Universities of Cambridge\, Bern and Zurich released the 'English Dialec
 t App'\, a mobile app for iOS and Android that offers a new way to investi
 gate the ways people speak. In this paper\, I'll present some results from
  the over 100k respondents who have downloaded and used the app and show h
 ow dialect is changing in the UK today.
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville and Caius College
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