Presentations

Conference presentations

50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (2025) (BUCLD50)

Home, school and caregiver speech in the acquisition of variation. (with Sophie Holmes-Elliott & Kathleen McCarthy) | View slides | Read abstract

New Ways of Analysing Variation 53 (2025) (NWAV53)

Leaving ‘ome be’ind: Home, school and caregiver speech in the acquisition of variation. | View slides | Read abstract

UK Language Variation and Change 15 (2025) (UKLVC15)

Reflex or Index? Using dialect poetry reading to untangle the motivations for vowel space area style effects in the Black Country. | View slides | Read abstract

16th Speech in Noise Workshop (2025) (SpiN25)

Kathleen McCarthy, Naomi Whittaker, Thomas Packer-Stucki, Outi Tuomainen | The role of accent familiarity in understanding speech in noise by younger and older listeners.

12th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE12)

An innovation on the isogloss? Apparent time changes in the BATH-TRAP-PALM system of Britain’s Black Country | View slides | Read abstract

2024 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP 2024)

Unmerging on the isogloss? Apparent time changes in the Black Country BATH-TRAP-PALM system | View poster | Read abstract

The role of accent familiarity in understanding speech in noise by younger and older listeners (with Kathleen McCarthy, Naomi Whittaker and Outi Tuomainen) | Read abstract

20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023)

LISTENING WITH STYLE: The effect of bidialectal style-shifting on PRICE vowel perception in Britain’s Black Country | Read paper | View poster

11th biennial conference of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA11)

Bilingual Answers to Non-Binary Questions: Are non-binary speakers more comfortable expressing their gender identity in English or in French? | Read abstract

Invited speaker talks

University of Lancaster (2025)

Invited to give a talk on my initial PhD findings as part of the Phonetics Lab Research Group Seminar Series.

University of Wolverhampton (2023)

Invited to the English Language and Linguistics department to present findings from my ICPhS paper (above) | Read paper

Other presentations

University of Copenhagen Winter School in Sociolinguistics (2022)

Accepted to give an oral presentation entitled Tuning in to Accentism on the status of the Black Country dialect and the extent of discrimination towards its speakers.