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Retired research fellow, formerly at the university of Lund, Sweden

Season’s greetings 2015

Posted on 2014/12/15 by swphonetics

Season’s greetings to all and best wishes for 2015 The Angel Tree, at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, decorated with 18th century Neapolitan crèche figures (the Loretta Hines Howard collection). Peasants at work _____ Serenading trubadours _____ A wise man … Continue reading →

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Said about Estuary English

Posted on 2014/10/27 by swphonetics

This turned up the other day Estuary English – the pride of Kent Susie Rushton’s Notebook: The Independent, Tuesday 7 June 2011 http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/columnists/susie-rushton-estuary-english-ndash-the-pride-of-kent-2293831.html “Let me make my own declamation of regional pride. Estuary is also the accent of people who, … Continue reading →

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Grandfather and Martha’s Vineyard

Posted on 2014/10/17 by swphonetics

xxx Map of Martha’s Vineyard. Source: Labov (1963) Martha’s Vineyard is an island off the Massachusetts coast SW of Cape Cod, and a popular resort for Bostonians. The permanent population are famous in various ways. Until not so very long … Continue reading →

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Remembering Gösta Bruce

Posted on 2014/06/03 by swphonetics

An international Symposium on Prosody to commemorate the life and work of the late Gösta Bruce (1947-2010) is being held at the Lund University Centre for Language and Literature on 2-3 June, 2014. The symposium web page is here. Photo: … Continue reading →

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Southern British English 3

Posted on 2014/03/03 by swphonetics

Home Counties SBE vowel formants This page continues from Part 2, that introduced a spectrographic study of the monophthong vowels of five speakers of RP. A similar study for five speakers of home counties SBE is presented now. The home … Continue reading →

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Southern British English 2

Posted on 2014/02/15 by swphonetics

RP SBE vowel formants This page introduces a spectrographic study of the monophthong vowels of five speakers of RP (the same five speakers who were introduced in Part 1). Together, they cover 100 years (birth years from 1874 to 1961), … Continue reading →

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Rhoticity in Lancashire 3: Preston to Colne

Posted on 2014/01/20 by swphonetics

This page continues from the first part of this series, which has the introduction, definition of rhoticity, and the report for Area A (Liverpool-Manchester). The report for Area B (Southport, Chorley, Bolton, Rochdale) is here. This page reports Area C … Continue reading →

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Southern British English 1

Posted on 2014/01/10 by swphonetics

  1. Estuary English before Rosewarne Some 25 years ago I was confronted with an enigmatic comment “You do this new thing awfully well”, followed by a necessary explanation, “the way you speak”. That new thing? What new thing? I’d … Continue reading →

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Season’s greetings 2013

Posted on 2013/12/20 by swphonetics

Season’s greetings Season’s greetings to you all, and best wishes for 2014 Illuminated Stockholm, December 1958 Top ©Sidney Wood and SWPhonetics, 1994-2013

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Other passions 5

Posted on 2013/12/08 by swphonetics

G. F. Händel: Messiah, at Sankta Maria church, Helsingborg, on 1 December, 2013, by Maria Oratorio Choir, soloists, baroque orchestra, conducted by Mats Hultkvist. Angel trumpets at the Rockefeller Centre, New York The choir organ at Sankta Maria church A … Continue reading →

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