Extra material linked to the essay titles

Crystal: the age of language

Effects of ageing on perception and cognition

How do listeners represent sociolinguistic knowledge

Imitating Accents or Speech Styles

Nativeness and non-nativeness

Voice changes and ability to replicate foreign accent - Eva, you might be particularly interested in this one!

Linguistic Accommodation and the Salience of National Identity Markers in a Border Town - this could be particularly useful to those of you writing about identity and language.

Essay Deadline Submission

Dear all,

This is a reminder for your essay deadline, which falls at 4 pm on Monday, 20th May 2013.

As agreed, I am going to look at your thesis statements and topic sentences on Friday; please prepare any questions you might have.

Good luck!

Katie

Two languages, two identities

Attached:

Two languages, two identities

Extra articles for your essays

Dear all,

Please find some extra articles that might be useful for your essays attached below. I will scan the badly scanned pages from Crystal in the evening and post them on the blog.

Article by Carmen Llamas

Speech and Language Community

Sociophonetics

A dissertation on (among others) interesting aspects of sociolinguistics

Happy reading

Katie

Videos about language changes

0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydjIOZPfGEA

0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9C5AHZKkk

0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoDKORhrNag

0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYjF5oOWooI

Additional handout on Language Families

Dear all,

I have scanned a page on language families from David Crystal's Encyclopaedia of Language. I hope it will help you understand different language families.

Language families

Best

Katie