Ella Bowen and Jada Obano interview Kathleen McCarthy about her research about and with East London communities

Kathy describes some of the research she has conducted with members of Tower Hamlet's Sylheti community, investigating features of their English, and collecting stories in Sylheti.

See the following papers for more details:

McCarthy, K. M. & Skoruppa, K. (2022) Language-specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti-English sequential bilinguals. Child Development, 94(2), e85–e102. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13880

McCarthy, K.M. & de Leeuw, E. (2021). Prosodic patterns in Sylheti-English bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 44(2), 562-579. https://doi.org/10.1017/S027226312100036X

Kirkham, S. & McCarthy, K.M. (2020). Acquiring allophonic structure and phonetic detail in a bilingual community: The production of laterals by Sylheti-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism.

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