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The impact of mental health and psychosocial support programmes on children and young people's mental health in the context of humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-02-12)Humanitarian emergencies pose a significant global health challenge for children and young people's mental and psychological health. This systematic review investigates the effectiveness of mental health and psychosocial ... -
The Role of Local Identity in the Usage and Recognition of Anglo-Cornish Dialect Lexis
(2024-03-01)Despite the well attested finding that orientation to place can exhibit correlations with sociolinguistic usage, the role of place identity in sociolinguistic variation and change has been long disputed. The disputes often ... -
The jet set: Modern RP and the (re)creation of social distinction
While the loss of regional distinctiveness across the southeastern UK is well studied and largely undisputed, there is less consensus about class-based divisions. This paper investigates this question through an updated ... -
How “U” are “U” words?
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Individual profiles amidst a multiethnolect: Acoustic hetereogeneity in London English
(Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2023-10-01) -
Registered report protocol: Perceptual effects of Arabic grammatical gender on occupational expectations in a gamified speech production task.
(2023)The default use of masculine morphology to refer to all genders in Arabic-speaking countries is largely unquestioned and widely accepted. However, research on masculine generic morphology in other gender-marked languages ... -
Voices, bodies, and the cultural organization of meaning
(University of Chicago Press, 2024-02-01)This article examines how the “arbitrary content of culture” (Bourdieu 1977) comes to be inscribed onto patterns of sociolinguistic variation. Specifically, we consider the role of iconicity in this process. Studies of ... -
DRESS-down: /ε/-lowering in apparent time in a rural Scottish community
(University of Glasgow, 2015)This paper presents a sociophonetic investigation of /ɛ/-lowering in apparent time. The data come from 24 speakers, across three generations from Buckie, northeast Scotland (12 males, 12 females). Acoustic analysis of the ... -
The urge to unmerge: a case of structural change across the lifespan
(Guarant International, 2023-08-14)This paper considers change across the lifespan by investigating an adult speaker’s development from a one-part low back vowel system to a two-part system. Specifically, we use podcast data to track the realtime development ...