Benjamin Purser

Accredited Linguist | Certified Practising Speech Pathologist | Dialect/Voice Coach | Gadigal Country (Sydney, Australia)

[Benjamin Purser @benjaminpurser_]

📷 Top right: Main image ©H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy; Composition Maddy Withington

[Benjamin Purser @benjaminpurser_]

It was great to return to @newtheatre this week, to work on accents for their upcoming production Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl. Wonderful to be back in the room with Alice and Emma after almost three years since tackling Hull accents for Jumpers for Goalposts!

🗓️18 March - 11 April

[ANU SLLL @ANUslll]

Writing for @ConversationEDU, Dr Gemma King asks why actors in two of this summer's biggest movies, Gladiator II and Nosferatu, seem to be speaking with false British accents despite their characters hailing from Ancient Rome and 1830's Germany ⁉️https://t.co/qmPKdp7Fpo

[AusEng @AusEngForum]

New deadline for abstract submission for the Forum on Englishes in Australia! Keynote speaker Prof. Felicity Cox @felicitymcox Abstracts now due June 22 at 5pm.

[Simon Musgrave @SimonMusgrave1]

Do people in different areas of Australia use different grammar? Help Isabelle Burke find out by spending 10-15 minutes of your time completing an anonymous online survey. No special vocabulary about grammar needed - just interest in the topic.
https://t.co/MAn4oXQpUb

[AusEng @AusEngForum]

The Forum on Englishes in Australia will be held on August 30 at La Trobe University and online: https://t.co/NCYws0tHRs
We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker is @felicitymcox
Follow the links for registration!
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[Natalie Braber @NatalieBraber]

Interested in accent discrimination? Here's our research what is happening at the Bar:
https://t.co/y2J9kXUYwb

[Language Data Commons of Australia @LDaCA_Program]

🤔 Have you read the "Sydney Speaks" case study? Chief Investigator @Catheri92184838 & @CMJstone detail the challenges & triumphs of combining legacy & contemporary collections of spoken #AustralianEnglish for a large-scale #sociolinguistic project. 👇https://t.co/GrcqViNdqt

[Benjamin Purser @benjaminpurser_]

@CelesteRLouro @UWAresearch That’s fair! Unfortunately I’ll be returning from a wedding overseas - just couldn’t make the timing work! I’ll be in Melbourne for Methods XVIII just a few days later. I’m sad to miss your keynote with Glenys!

[Felicity Cox @felicitymcox]

@louiseratko, Mike Proctor and I from @CLaSMQ @MQLinguistics are pleased to share our new Journal of Phonetics paper on the articulation of vowel length contrasts #phonetics https://t.co/hWyhOBDnkp

[Gan Qiao @gan_qiao]

Can you guess the #ethnicity of these speakers? Click the link to find out & challenge your #friends to a higher score today! Must be 18+ from #Sydney.
https://t.co/RAuhHVjw1Z

@Catheri92184838 @benjaminpurser_ @Corpusling @sociolinguo @_shubo

[The University of Sydney Voice Lab @VoiceLab_USyd]

New @syd_health Health Executive Education & @VoiceLab_USyd #microcredential online course for #SpeechLanguagePathologists, #ENTSpecialists & #VoiceResearchers wanting to elevate their expertise in voice disorders.
Enrol today:
https://t.co/n8xwcSegnN
@Cate_Madill @Sydney_Uni

[Benjamin Purser @benjaminpurser_]

A great article on #ethnolects in #AustralianEnglish and the “Western Sydney accent”, showcasing Prof Catherine Travis @Catheri92184838 and Heba Bou Orm and the #SydneySpeaks corpus 🗣️ #sociolinguistics

[ANU SLLL @ANUslll]

Prof Catherine Travis and PhD candidate Heba Bou Orm talks about the western Sydney accent and how it is an expression of identity. 🗣️

Read the article featuring their commentary here: https://t.co/DmOWemXC8H

[Debbie Loakes @debbie_dloa]

We are looking for participants for a new study on voices in Melbourne, led by Prof. James Walker at La Trobe University. If you live in Australia and understand English, please take part! https://t.co/jDPGFzuqzJ

[Benjamin Purser @benjaminpurser_]

@dalaigrama https://t.co/LJwpAmta7N

[Benjamin Purser @benjaminpurser_]

Very excited that our latest paper using the Sydney Speaks corpus has been published in English World Wide, with @dalaigrama and @Catheri92184838
“Stability and change in (ing): Ethnic and grammatical variation over time in Australian English”
https://t.co/eg8qbKqCio

[Benjamin Purser @benjaminpurser_]

@dalaigrama has done a marvellous job explaining the paper and its findings (far better than I could!) so I have reposted his thread for anyone interested!

[Benjamin Purser @benjaminpurser_]

Great to collaborate with @TheBigSmokeAU on this piece on Speech Pathology and AI to celebrate #SpeechPathologyWeek

https://t.co/bL9dQ3Gn6c

[Language Data Commons of Australia @LDaCA_Program]

📢CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Workshop on immigrant language corpora in Aus, Nov 9-10, 2023. The event will bring together scholars working with corpora from across different disciplines. Abstracts due Oct 3.

For more info 👉https://t.co/tTfO1m2CiW

@Catheri92184838 @ANUcass @ARDC_AU