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CATEGORIES:Caius MCR/SCR research talks
SUMMARY:The end of English dialects? Findings from the Eng
 lish Dialect App - Tam Blaxter (University of Camb
 ridge)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171010T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171010T213000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/74061
DESCRIPTION:Language is a topic close to everyone's heart: we 
 are all acutely aware of how we speak\, how those 
 around us speak\, and what the differences reveal 
 about our social and geographical backgrounds. Yet
  shrinking humanities funding has meant that mappi
 ng speech across whole countries has been practica
 lly impossible for several decades. In 2016\, a te
 am at the Universities of Cambridge\, Bern and Zur
 ich released the 'English Dialect App'\, a mobile 
 app for iOS and Android that offers a new way to i
 nvestigate the ways people speak. In this paper\, 
 I'll present some results from the over 100k respo
 ndents who have downloaded and used the app and sh
 ow how dialect is changing in the UK today.
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville and Caius College
CONTACT:Alisa Molotova
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