In this paper, we present the English Dialects App (EDA) and the English Dialects App
Corpus (EDAC). EDA is a free iOS and Android app, launched in January 2016 that features …

This article investigates the status of the foot–strut split in the counties of Leicestershire,
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. The East Midlands area is …

This chapter focuses on social media and considers whether and how the graphological
reflection of dialect writing is affecting these new forms of communication. By foregrounding …

With changes in Appalachia over the past two generations involving decreased poverty and
more development, continued study of the changing culture of Appalachia is needed …

This study presents a large-scale investigation of sociolinguistic variation in the phonetic
realisation and phonemic status of FOOT and STRUT in Manchester English. As a Northern …

This article examines a three-way subregional distinction between Northern, Middle, and
Southern Appalachia based on younger respondents' self-reported use of traditional lexical …

The present thesis offers both apparent-time and real-time analyses of two sub-corpora of
the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE): one from the 1970s and …