A World of Englishes

I was recently called upon by Associated Press , the BBC News Channel  and Reading's Jack FM to comment on the spoken features of the ...

In my first year "Sounds of Language" class, one of the things we do is look at phonetic vs phonemic inventories. I've just h...

The BBC is airing a new game show on Saturday nights hosted by the wonderful Rob Brydon and amusingly entitled The Guess List. You can read ...

You know, I can't remember who I was talking to about this recently or why we got on to the topic, but I have always done my best to edu...

I am so sorry I've not posted for a while; it's been a hectic term! One of the reasons it's been hectic is because I've be...

This is a post about the intonation of announcements on trains in the UK.  I didn't actually think it was worth posting on this topic ...

I was recently asked to contribute some history and other information on the IPA chart for Babel Magazine 's fourth issue. The text bel...