NORTHERN ENGLISHES WORKSHOP

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Thursday 30 March 2006

Time	Event
13.30-14.15	Registration (Institute for Advanced Studies)
14.15-14.30	Introductions and scope of workshop
14.30-15.00	Isabelle Buchstaller & Karen Corrigan The Syntactic Atlas of British Isles’ Dialects (SABID): The Northern Phase
15.00-15.30	Tea
15.30-16.00	Willem Hollmann & Anna Siewierska The role of frequency in sociolinguistic perspective
16.00-16.30	Paul Kerswill & Eivind Torgersen Innovation and levelling in urban dialectology
19.30	Dinner

Friday 31 March 2006

Time	Event
09.30-10.00	Dominic Watt Rhoticity and national identity among Berwick English speakers
10.00-10.30	Carmen Llamas & Mark Jones Migration and language variation: Middlesbrough and Dublin compared
10.30-11.00	Joan Beal & Karen Corrigan The Synchrony and Diachrony of Youse and Thees in Northern England
11.00-11.30	Coffee
11.30-12.00	Emma Moore How do discourse markers fit into an integrated account of sociolinguistic identity?
12.00-12.30	Joan Beal & Lourdes Burbano Elizondo 'The Tyne-Wear Derby': analysing indexicality and identity in the North-east of England
12.30-13.00	Katie Wales The Future of Northern English
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.30	Judith Broadbent 't-to-r' in West Yorkshire
14.30-15.00	Patrick Honeybone Why everyone should be interested in Northern English 't-to-r'
15.00-15.30	Phillip Tipton The NURSE-SQUARE merger in Lancashire English
15.30-16.00	Tea
16.00-16.30	Warren Maguire, April McMahon & Paul Heggarty New methods for quantifying the similarity of English accents and dialects
16.30-17.00	Chris Montgomery Perceptions of English dialects in the north of England
17.00-17.30	Kevin Watson A gestural account of Liverpool English lenition
19.30	Dinner

Saturday 1 April 2006

Time	Event
09.30-10.00	Clive Upton Dialect Geography, the Midlands and the 'North-South Divide'
10.00-10.30	Esther Asprey The North-South divide: A view from the Midlands
10.30-11.00	Coffee
11.00-11.30	Mercedes Durham 'It's altered a lot has York': Right dislocation over time
11.30-13.00	Present and future collaboration and networks

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