Presentations at conferences and research symposia
2022
Home language and year group differences in a standardised Welsh reading accuracy task. BAAL 2022 Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 1 – 3 Medi 2022 (with Rosanna Stenner, Geraint Palmer & Dylan Foster Evans).
Introducing the Welsh Text Summarisation Dataset and Baseline Systems. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 13, Marseille, 21 – 23 June 2022 (with Mahmoud El-Haj, Ignatius Ezeani & Dawn Knight).
Welsh Summaries Correlation between ROUGE and Human Evaluation. 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop, Marseille, 24 – 25 June 2022 (with Mahmoud El-Haj, Ignatius Ezeani & Dawn Knight).
Intersectional identities in minority-language contexts: LGBTQ+ speakers of Welsh. Lavender Languages and Linguistics 28, University of Catania, 23-25 May 2022 (with Sam Parker).
Stylistic variation and the possessive construction in Welsh. International Conference of Language Variation in Europe 11, Vienna/Online, 11 – 14 April 2022 (with Katharine Young and Mercedes Durham).
Welsh Automatic Text Summarisation. Wales Academic Symposium on Language Technologies 2022, Bangor University, 28 January 2022 (with Ignatius Ezeani, Ianto Gruffydd, Katharine Young, Lynne Davies, Mahmoud El-Haj a Dawn Knight).
2020
Fundamental Frequency Range in Welsh-English bilingual speech: An investigation of cross-linguistic differences and sociolinguistic variation. BAAP 2020 Colloquium, University of York, 1-3 April 2020.
The effects of home language and bilingualism on the realisation of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English. BAAP 2020 Colloquium, University of York, 1-3 April 2020 (with Ineke Mennen, Niamh Kelly & Robert Mayr).
2019
Intonational Variation in the speech of Welsh-English bilinguals in north Wales. UKLVC 12, QMUL and UCL, 3 -5 September 2019.
Can you tell by their English if they can speak Welsh? Accent perception in a language contact situation. UKLVC 12, QMUL and UCL, 3 -5 September 2019 (with Robert Mayr).
Cross-linguistic and areal differences in Fundamental Frequency Range in north Wales. Seminar Ieithyddiaeth Gymraeg, Plas Gregynog, 1 – 2 Gorffennaf 2019.
Fundamental Frequency Range in Welsh-English bilingual speech: An investigation of cross-linguistic differences and sociolinguistic variation. International Conference of Language Variation in Europe 10, Leeuwarden, 26 – 28 June 2019.
2018
‘He’s definitely a Welsh speaker’: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent in a language contact situation. BAAP 2018 Colloquium, University of Kent, 12 – 14 April 2018 (with Robert Mayr).
2017
Perceptions of Llanelli English: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent in a language contact situation. UKLVC 11, Cardiff University, 29 August – 1 September 2017 (with Robert Mayr).
Welsh influence on bilinguals' English: Results of a speech perception test. Welsh Linguistics Seminar, Plas Gregynog, University of Wales, 10 – 11 July 2017 (with Robert Mayr).
The influence of social and social psychological factors on the intergenerational transmission of Welsh. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), University of Limerick, 11 – 15 June 2017 (with Jeremy Evas a Lorraine Whitmarsh).
‘He’s definitely a Welsh speaker’: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent in a language contact situation. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), University of Limerick, 11 – 15 June 2017 (with Robert Mayr).
Disentangling (r) variation in Welsh. GURT2017: Variable Properties: Their Nature and Acquisition. Georgetown University, 10 – 12 March 2017.
2016
Convergence in the production of lexical (accented) stress cues of Welsh and Welsh English. Speech Research, University of Zagreb, 8 – 10 December 2016 (with Ineke Mennen, Robert Mayr & Niamh Kelly).
Convergence in lexical stress cues of Welsh and Welsh English. 2nd Workshop on Second Language Prosody (SLaP), University of Graz, 18 – 19 November 2016 (with Ineke Mennen, Robert Mayr & Niamh Kelly).
Lexical stress production in a long-term contact situation: the case of Welsh and Welsh English. 9th Celtic Linguistics Conference, Cardiff University, 1 – 2 September 2016 (with Ineke Mennen, Robert Mayr & Niamh Kelly).
Preaspiration in Bethesda Welsh. Welsh Linguistics Seminar, Plas Gregynog, 4 – 5 July 2016 (with Michaela Hejná).
Linguistic and extra-linguistic constraints on preaspiration in Bethesda Welsh. BAAP Colloquium, Lancaster University, 30 March – 1 April 2016 (with Michaela Hejná).
2015
Phonetic variation in a long-term contact situation: /l/ in Welsh-English bilingual speech. UKLVC 10, University of York, 1 - 3 September 2015.
Influences of language contact and linguistic background on the production of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English. 18th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, University of Glasgow, 10-14 August 2015 (with Ineke Mennen & Robert Mayr).
Linguistic and extra-linguistic constraints on preaspiration in Bethesda Welsh. The 15th International Congress of Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow, 13-17 July 2015 (with Michaela Hejná).
Examining historical convergence and synchronic variation in situations of long-term contact. International Conference of Language Variation in Europe, University of Leipzig, 17-29 May 2015.
Lexical Stress production and the role of the home language in Welsh monophthongs and Welsh-English bilinguals. 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Rutgers University, 20 - 24 May 2015 (with Ineke Mennen & Robert Mayr).
Disentangling the effects of language contact and individual bilingualism: the case of monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English. 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Rutgers University, 20 - 24 May 2015 (with Ineke Mennen & Robert Mayr).
2014
Socio-phonetic variation in a language contact situation: the case of word stress in Welsh and Welsh English. SinFonIJA 7: 7th Conference on Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis, University of Graz, 25 – 27 May 2014 (poster with Ineke Mennen & Robert Mayr).
The future of Welsh dialects? The effects of societal changes on (r) variation in Northern Welsh. Methods in Dialectology XV, University of Groningen, 11 – 15 August 2014.
Cydgyfeiriant ffonolegol ac amrywiad seinegol yng Nghymraeg a Saesneg Gogledd Cymru [Phonological convergence and phonetic variation in the Welsh and English of North Wales]. Linguistic Diversity in Wales, National Library of Wales, 18 – 19 July 2014.
Phonetic cues in Bethesda Welsh plosives. Welsh Linguistics Seminar, Plas Gregynog, University of Wales, 16 – 17 July 2014 (with Michaela Hejná).
The sociolinguistics of (r) in Northern Welsh. 8th Celtic Linguistics Conference, University of Edinburgh, 6 – 7 June 2014.
(r) variation in bilingual speech: an analysis of adolescent Welsh-English bilinguals. The 6th Northern Englishes Workshop, Lancaster University, 16 – 17 April 2014.
Interaction effects in a language contact situation: the case of monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English. BAAP 2014 Colloquium, University of Oxford, 7 – 9 April 2014 (with Robert Mayr, Ineke Mennen & Daniel Williams).
Interaction effects in a language contact situation: the case of monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English. Southern Englishes Workshop, University of Brighton, 8 – 9 March 2014 (with Robert Mayr & Ineke Mennen).
2013
Socio-phonetic variation in a language contact situation: the case of Welsh and Welsh English. UKLVC 9 , University of Sheffield, 2 – 4 September 2013 (with Robert Mayr & Ineke Mennen).
Phonological variation and ‘transfer’ amongst Welsh speakers in Caernarfon and Mold. Welsh Linguistics Seminar, Plas Gregynog, University of Wales, 8 – 9 July 2013.
2012
The social meaning of input factors: Home language and community in northern Wales. New Researchers Forum in Linguistics, Universities of Manchester and Salford, 2 – 3 November 2012.
Social constraints on bilingual speech production: phonological variation and language transfer in the speech of Welsh-English bilinguals. International Conference of Bilingual and Multilingual Interaction, Bangor University, 30 March – 1 April 2012.
Velarisation of /l/ in Welsh-English bilingual speech: An acoustic investigation. BAAP 2012 Colloquium, University of Leeds, 26 – 28 March 2012 (Poster).
2011
Phonetic variation in the production of /l/ by Welsh-English bilinguals. 14th International Congress of Celtic Studies. National University of Ireland Maynooth, 1 – 5 August 2011.
(r) variation in the repertoire of Welsh-English bilinguals. 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), University of Freiburg, 29 June – 1 July 2011.
Acoustic evidence for /l/ variation in the repertoire of Welsh-English bilinguals. Variation and Language Processing (VaLP) 2011, University of Chester, 11 – 13 April 2011.
2010
The linguistic behaviour of German migrants in German-speaking Switzerland. CAMling 2010, Cambridge, 7 – 8 December 2010.
Deutsche in der Deutschschweiz: eine sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchung [Germans in German-speaking Switzerland: A Linguistic Study]. 48. studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft, University of Potsdam, 17 – 21 November 2010.
Welsh-English bilinguals: the same accent in both languages? 3rd Postgraduate Celtic Conference, University of Aberdeen, 28 – 29 October 2010.
Phonetic variation in North Wales: preaspiration. Summer School of Sociolinguistics, University of Edinburgh, 14 – 20 June 2010.
2009
Pre-aspiration in Welsh. Bangor Postgraduate Conference and Bilingualism and Bimodalism, Bangor University, 2 – 3 October 2009.
Home language and year group differences in a standardised Welsh reading accuracy task. BAAL 2022 Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 1 – 3 Medi 2022 (with Rosanna Stenner, Geraint Palmer & Dylan Foster Evans).
Introducing the Welsh Text Summarisation Dataset and Baseline Systems. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 13, Marseille, 21 – 23 June 2022 (with Mahmoud El-Haj, Ignatius Ezeani & Dawn Knight).
Welsh Summaries Correlation between ROUGE and Human Evaluation. 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop, Marseille, 24 – 25 June 2022 (with Mahmoud El-Haj, Ignatius Ezeani & Dawn Knight).
Intersectional identities in minority-language contexts: LGBTQ+ speakers of Welsh. Lavender Languages and Linguistics 28, University of Catania, 23-25 May 2022 (with Sam Parker).
Stylistic variation and the possessive construction in Welsh. International Conference of Language Variation in Europe 11, Vienna/Online, 11 – 14 April 2022 (with Katharine Young and Mercedes Durham).
Welsh Automatic Text Summarisation. Wales Academic Symposium on Language Technologies 2022, Bangor University, 28 January 2022 (with Ignatius Ezeani, Ianto Gruffydd, Katharine Young, Lynne Davies, Mahmoud El-Haj a Dawn Knight).
2020
Fundamental Frequency Range in Welsh-English bilingual speech: An investigation of cross-linguistic differences and sociolinguistic variation. BAAP 2020 Colloquium, University of York, 1-3 April 2020.
The effects of home language and bilingualism on the realisation of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English. BAAP 2020 Colloquium, University of York, 1-3 April 2020 (with Ineke Mennen, Niamh Kelly & Robert Mayr).
2019
Intonational Variation in the speech of Welsh-English bilinguals in north Wales. UKLVC 12, QMUL and UCL, 3 -5 September 2019.
Can you tell by their English if they can speak Welsh? Accent perception in a language contact situation. UKLVC 12, QMUL and UCL, 3 -5 September 2019 (with Robert Mayr).
Cross-linguistic and areal differences in Fundamental Frequency Range in north Wales. Seminar Ieithyddiaeth Gymraeg, Plas Gregynog, 1 – 2 Gorffennaf 2019.
Fundamental Frequency Range in Welsh-English bilingual speech: An investigation of cross-linguistic differences and sociolinguistic variation. International Conference of Language Variation in Europe 10, Leeuwarden, 26 – 28 June 2019.
2018
‘He’s definitely a Welsh speaker’: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent in a language contact situation. BAAP 2018 Colloquium, University of Kent, 12 – 14 April 2018 (with Robert Mayr).
2017
Perceptions of Llanelli English: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent in a language contact situation. UKLVC 11, Cardiff University, 29 August – 1 September 2017 (with Robert Mayr).
Welsh influence on bilinguals' English: Results of a speech perception test. Welsh Linguistics Seminar, Plas Gregynog, University of Wales, 10 – 11 July 2017 (with Robert Mayr).
The influence of social and social psychological factors on the intergenerational transmission of Welsh. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), University of Limerick, 11 – 15 June 2017 (with Jeremy Evas a Lorraine Whitmarsh).
‘He’s definitely a Welsh speaker’: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent in a language contact situation. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), University of Limerick, 11 – 15 June 2017 (with Robert Mayr).
Disentangling (r) variation in Welsh. GURT2017: Variable Properties: Their Nature and Acquisition. Georgetown University, 10 – 12 March 2017.
2016
Convergence in the production of lexical (accented) stress cues of Welsh and Welsh English. Speech Research, University of Zagreb, 8 – 10 December 2016 (with Ineke Mennen, Robert Mayr & Niamh Kelly).
Convergence in lexical stress cues of Welsh and Welsh English. 2nd Workshop on Second Language Prosody (SLaP), University of Graz, 18 – 19 November 2016 (with Ineke Mennen, Robert Mayr & Niamh Kelly).
Lexical stress production in a long-term contact situation: the case of Welsh and Welsh English. 9th Celtic Linguistics Conference, Cardiff University, 1 – 2 September 2016 (with Ineke Mennen, Robert Mayr & Niamh Kelly).
Preaspiration in Bethesda Welsh. Welsh Linguistics Seminar, Plas Gregynog, 4 – 5 July 2016 (with Michaela Hejná).
Linguistic and extra-linguistic constraints on preaspiration in Bethesda Welsh. BAAP Colloquium, Lancaster University, 30 March – 1 April 2016 (with Michaela Hejná).
2015
Phonetic variation in a long-term contact situation: /l/ in Welsh-English bilingual speech. UKLVC 10, University of York, 1 - 3 September 2015.
Influences of language contact and linguistic background on the production of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English. 18th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, University of Glasgow, 10-14 August 2015 (with Ineke Mennen & Robert Mayr).
Linguistic and extra-linguistic constraints on preaspiration in Bethesda Welsh. The 15th International Congress of Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow, 13-17 July 2015 (with Michaela Hejná).
Examining historical convergence and synchronic variation in situations of long-term contact. International Conference of Language Variation in Europe, University of Leipzig, 17-29 May 2015.
Lexical Stress production and the role of the home language in Welsh monophthongs and Welsh-English bilinguals. 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Rutgers University, 20 - 24 May 2015 (with Ineke Mennen & Robert Mayr).
Disentangling the effects of language contact and individual bilingualism: the case of monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English. 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Rutgers University, 20 - 24 May 2015 (with Ineke Mennen & Robert Mayr).
2014
Socio-phonetic variation in a language contact situation: the case of word stress in Welsh and Welsh English. SinFonIJA 7: 7th Conference on Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis, University of Graz, 25 – 27 May 2014 (poster with Ineke Mennen & Robert Mayr).
The future of Welsh dialects? The effects of societal changes on (r) variation in Northern Welsh. Methods in Dialectology XV, University of Groningen, 11 – 15 August 2014.
Cydgyfeiriant ffonolegol ac amrywiad seinegol yng Nghymraeg a Saesneg Gogledd Cymru [Phonological convergence and phonetic variation in the Welsh and English of North Wales]. Linguistic Diversity in Wales, National Library of Wales, 18 – 19 July 2014.
Phonetic cues in Bethesda Welsh plosives. Welsh Linguistics Seminar, Plas Gregynog, University of Wales, 16 – 17 July 2014 (with Michaela Hejná).
The sociolinguistics of (r) in Northern Welsh. 8th Celtic Linguistics Conference, University of Edinburgh, 6 – 7 June 2014.
(r) variation in bilingual speech: an analysis of adolescent Welsh-English bilinguals. The 6th Northern Englishes Workshop, Lancaster University, 16 – 17 April 2014.
Interaction effects in a language contact situation: the case of monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English. BAAP 2014 Colloquium, University of Oxford, 7 – 9 April 2014 (with Robert Mayr, Ineke Mennen & Daniel Williams).
Interaction effects in a language contact situation: the case of monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English. Southern Englishes Workshop, University of Brighton, 8 – 9 March 2014 (with Robert Mayr & Ineke Mennen).
2013
Socio-phonetic variation in a language contact situation: the case of Welsh and Welsh English. UKLVC 9 , University of Sheffield, 2 – 4 September 2013 (with Robert Mayr & Ineke Mennen).
Phonological variation and ‘transfer’ amongst Welsh speakers in Caernarfon and Mold. Welsh Linguistics Seminar, Plas Gregynog, University of Wales, 8 – 9 July 2013.
2012
The social meaning of input factors: Home language and community in northern Wales. New Researchers Forum in Linguistics, Universities of Manchester and Salford, 2 – 3 November 2012.
Social constraints on bilingual speech production: phonological variation and language transfer in the speech of Welsh-English bilinguals. International Conference of Bilingual and Multilingual Interaction, Bangor University, 30 March – 1 April 2012.
Velarisation of /l/ in Welsh-English bilingual speech: An acoustic investigation. BAAP 2012 Colloquium, University of Leeds, 26 – 28 March 2012 (Poster).
2011
Phonetic variation in the production of /l/ by Welsh-English bilinguals. 14th International Congress of Celtic Studies. National University of Ireland Maynooth, 1 – 5 August 2011.
(r) variation in the repertoire of Welsh-English bilinguals. 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), University of Freiburg, 29 June – 1 July 2011.
Acoustic evidence for /l/ variation in the repertoire of Welsh-English bilinguals. Variation and Language Processing (VaLP) 2011, University of Chester, 11 – 13 April 2011.
2010
The linguistic behaviour of German migrants in German-speaking Switzerland. CAMling 2010, Cambridge, 7 – 8 December 2010.
Deutsche in der Deutschschweiz: eine sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchung [Germans in German-speaking Switzerland: A Linguistic Study]. 48. studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft, University of Potsdam, 17 – 21 November 2010.
Welsh-English bilinguals: the same accent in both languages? 3rd Postgraduate Celtic Conference, University of Aberdeen, 28 – 29 October 2010.
Phonetic variation in North Wales: preaspiration. Summer School of Sociolinguistics, University of Edinburgh, 14 – 20 June 2010.
2009
Pre-aspiration in Welsh. Bangor Postgraduate Conference and Bilingualism and Bimodalism, Bangor University, 2 – 3 October 2009.
