Accentricity
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Élaina's Story
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the final episode (at least for now!) of The Moving Project. During the Covid-19 pandemic we worked with a group of people from all over the w...
Special episode: “Really this girl ought to be going to something better”
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few years, as well as making Accentricity, I’ve been working on the Manchester Voices research project at Manchester Metropolitan Univ...
Special episode: Talking About Voices
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As well as making Accentricity, I work on the Manchester Voices project at Manchester Metropolitan University, with Rob Drummond and Holly Dann. Durin...
Anna and Sadie's Story
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, during the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve been working with a group of people from all over the world, teaching them to podcast and he...
Lisa's Story
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, during the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve been working with a group of people from all over the world, teaching them to podcast and he...
Helen and Sam's Story
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, during the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve been working with a group of people from all over the world, teaching them to podcast and he...
Claire's Story
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, during the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve been working with a group of people from all over the world, teaching them to podcast and he...
Charles and Alejandra's Story
01 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, during the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve been working with a group of people from all over the world, teaching them to podcast and he...
Maria's Story
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, during the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve been working with a group of people from all over the world, teaching them to podcast and he...
Veronica's Story
04 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, during the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve been working with a group of people from all over the world, teaching them to podcast and he...
Don't Forget To Tell Them That You're Polish
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is Accentricity’s first audio research paper. In April this year, I was really excited to have an article published in a linguistics jo...
Introducing: The Sounds of Integration guest series
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, we bring you something a little bit different. A few months ago, we were invited to work in collaboration with the podcast Refugee V...
Bonus Episode: Learning To Talk, One Year Later
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you would like to take the Wug test (or test the tiny people in your life), I’ve done a blog post it which allows you to do the test here. Rememb...
Fake Accents
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
* Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa make The Vocal Fries, a podcast where they investigate and dismantle linguistic prejudice in all its forms. They ha...
Bonus Episode: The Best Thing I've Learned About Language part 2
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The students featured, in order of appearance, are: * Jo Pearce is a Masters student in English Language & Linguistics at the University of Glasgo...
Bonus Episode: The Best Thing I've Learned About Language part 1
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The students featured, in order of appearance, are: * Sinaed Callaghan is from Glasgow. She has just completed her joint honours degree with English L...
Multilingualism is not a Curse part 2
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it that despite all of the evidence that using multiple languages is good for you, multilingualism is still sometimes treated with suspicion? I...
Multilingualism is not a Curse part 1
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The contributors: * Antonella Sorace is Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She is a world leading authority o...
Learning to Talk
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you would like to take the Wug test (or test the tiny people in your life), I’ve done a blog post it which allows you to do so here. Remember tha...
Singing Voice, Speaking Voice
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The contributors: * Justin Currie performs solo and with his band Del Amitri. * Aidan Moffat’s most recent album is a collaboration with R...
More Than One Voice
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The contributors: * Jennifer Smith is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Glasgow. At the moment she’s working on two big research pr...
Making Assumptions
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The contributors: * Jenny Wartanby is working on a PhD about the Scottish movement to end violence against women. You can follow her on Twitter @arm...