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QMUL In conversation

QMUL In conversation

by QMUL Linguistics

Social Sciences

Season 1

Andrew Sudhooa and Matthew Hulse interview David Adger about his work on linguistic univerals

David describes the work he did with Jenny Culbertson (Edinburgh University) and Klaus Abels (UCL) investigating potential linguistic universals in word ordering. See the following for more details: A universal cognitive bias in word order: Evidence from speakers whose language goes against it. Martin, A., Adger, D., Abels, K., Kanampiu, P., & Culbertson, J. Psychological science. 2024.link Does a universal hierarchical structure underlie word order typology?. Martin, A., Kanampiu, P., Adger, D., Abels, K., & Culbertson, J. In Ravignani, A., Barbieri, C., Flaherty, M., Jadoul, Y., Lattenkamp, E., Little, H., Martins, M., Mudd, K., & Verhoef, T., editor(s), Proceedings of EVOLANG 13. 2020.link The transcript was generated using Whisper, and may contain errors.

Nishal Rai interviews Rémi Lamarque about cognitive effort involved in accent perception

Nishal has a chat with Rémi about his perspective on his research with Adam Chong, Marc Barnard, and Scott Kunkel, which Adam presented in the previous episode, on the cognitive effort associated with perceiving non-native and regional accents of English. See the following for more details: Listening Effort Across Non-Native and Regional Accents: A Pupillometry Study. Barnard, M., Kunkel, S., Lamarque, R., Chong, A. Language and Speech. 2025 The transcript was generated using Whisper, and may contain errors.

Jacob Muna and Urszula Osobka-Leszczynska interview Adam Chong about cognitive effort involved in accent perception

Jacob and Urszula have a chat with Adam Chong (Oxford University) about his research with Marc Barnard, Scott Kunkel and Rémi Lamarque on the cognitive effort associated with perceiving non-native and regional accents of English. See the following for more details: Listening Effort Across Non-Native and Regional Accents: A Pupillometry Study. Barnard, M., Kunkel, S., Lamarque, R., Chong, A. Language and Speech. 2025 The transcript was generated using Whisper, and may contain errors.

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. The transcript was generated using Whisper, and may contain errors.

Aya Al Chaya interviews Elliot Bush about inventing a language for experimental semantics

The transcript was generated using Whisper, and may contain errors.