June 2020
Presentation slides for the SPADE talk Desperately seeking ‘English’ sibilants: Discovering dialect norms and speaker variability for /s S/ from large-scale, multi-dialect analysis are now online in advance of the virtual LabPhon17 conference to be ‘held’ July 6-8 2020.
May 2020
Try out our prototype SPADE: Speech over time and space Shiny app here: http://152.1.64.33/spade/latest/
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May 2020
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SPADE is a feature of the presentation What can corpus phonetics tell us about ‘English’ phonology? given at the ICAME41 pre-conference digital workshop English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology, hosted by the University of Trier, Germany.
February 2020
The SPADE project team hosted a workshop in Glasgow with team members from two France-based projects, Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain (PAC) and Phonologie du Français Contemporain (PFC), on February 20th and 21st, 2020.
The SPADE-related presentations consisted of the project overview The SPADE project: large-scale analysis of a spoken language across space and time, along with Scottish English from a Scottish English from a large corpus perspective and Vowel variation across English dialects.
November 2019
SPADE features in the presentation Large-scale acoustic analysis of word-final /r/ in Scottish English, given at the R-atics conference held at the Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, UMR7018 – CNRS/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris, 7th-8th November 2019.
November 2019
The SPADE project features in a Data Management Use Case (DMUC) chapter in the forthcoming Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management. This volume is to be published by MIT Press Open, and is edited by Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren Collister.
October 2019
SPADE research is featured in the presentation Phonetic Processes behind Canadian Raising of /ai/ in Eastern Ohio given at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48 (NWAV48) conference held at the University of Oregon, USA, 10th-12th October, 2019.
September 2019
SPADE features in the presentation The fate of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in contemporary Scottish English and the poster How consistent is the Voicing Effect across dialects of English? at the 12th UK Language Variation and Change conference held at the Queen Mary University of London (co-hosted with UCL), 3rd-5th September 2019.
SPADE research features in the Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics article Vowel duration and the voicing effect across dialects of English (Volume 41).
August 2019
Three SPADE project papers were given as oral presentations at the 2019 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019) held from 5th-9th August 2019 in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia:
Code and anonymised data for this paper are available at the OSF project here.