Hello readers. Welcome to the Pets of LAEL recurring blog segment. Here at LAEL, most of our staff have a lovely pet (or two… or five) accompanying them through life. With this in mind, we decided to create a weekly blog posting which features pets of the department. This week’s pet of the week is…
In February, Lancaster hosted a Forensic Voice Comparison workshop hosted by our own Dr George Brown and Soundscape Voice Evidence’s Dr Christin Kirchhübel based here in Lancaster. The workshop was hosted at the beautiful Lancaster Castle, a fantastic setting for participants to enjoy after their travels from the universities of York, Cambridge, and Marburg! A total…
Last week, Modern Languages Open published a special collection including work from some of our wonderful PhD students! The collection titled “Sociolinguistic Methodologies at a Crossroads: Innovations from the Postgraduate Community” explores the rethinking of methodological approaches in Sociolinguistics, exploring novel ways in which we can apply research methods in a rapidly evolving research climate. This…
What do you get when you cross a duck with a linguist? A DuckLing!