Episode 69 - Natalie Braber & Alice Paver on accent stereotypes

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A podcast about language and linguistics for A Level English Language students, teachers and anyone else who's interested in language.

Language Learning

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Episode 69 - Natalie Braber & Alice Paver on accent stereotypes

Lexis

37 minutes 9 seconds

8 months ago

Episode 69 - Natalie Braber & Alice Paver on accent stereotypes

Welcome to Episode 69 of Lexis. Dan is joined by guest interviewer Amanda Cole for this episode as we talk to Dr Natalie Braber, Professor in linguistics at Nottingham Trent University and Alice Paver, Research Assistant at the Phonetics Laboratory, University of Cambridge about their new paper, ‘Stereotyped accent judgements in forensic contexts: listener perceptions of social traits and types of behaviour’.

We talk about:

Previous accent attitude research
What makes their research different and more expansive
Criminality and morality in relation to accent attitudes
The rise (and fall) of Brummie 😕
The real world, legal implications of accent prejudice
What happens in a voice parade

⚠️As part of the discussion, we touch on issues of criminality, including sexual assault⚠️

Alice Paver’s profile page:

https://www.phonetics.mmll.cam.ac.uk/staff/alice-paver

Natalie Braber’s profile page: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/natalie-braber

Their paper (with David Wright and Nikolas Pautz):

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1462013/full

Some of the media coverage:

The Traitors: Why Charlotte’s fake Welsh accent could be a stroke of genius | The Independent

Cambridge study raises concern about regional accents stereotypes - BBC News

People with working-class accents more likely to be suspected of committing crimes | UK criminal justice | The Guardian

UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid' - BBC News

Jorja Smith puts hometown accent on map

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Contributors

Lisa Casey

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton

blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social

Jacky Glancey

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana

Matthew Butler

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA

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