Dom Watt: conference presentations and invited talks (since 2000)
 
2011
  • Variation in Voice Onset Time along the Scottish-English border. 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August (with Gerry Docherty, Carmen Llamas, Damien Hall and Jennifer Nycz).
  • Speaking under cover: the effect of face-concealing garments on spectral properties of fricatives. 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August (with Natalie Fecher; poster presentation).
  • Effects of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule on vowel quantity in Tyneside English. 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August (with Carmen Llamas, Peter French and Lisa Roberts; poster presentation).
  • A measure of variable planar locations anchored on the centroid of the vowel space: a sociophonetic research tool. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August (with Anne Fabricius; poster presentation).
 
2010
  • The effects of a border: a detailed examination of production, attitude and perception. NWAV39, San Antonio, Texas, November. (with Carmen Llamas, Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall and Jennifer Nycz).
  • Linguistic variation and identity: sound change along a national border. Workshop on Sound Change, Barcelona, October. (with Carmen Llamas, Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall and Jennifer Nycz; poster presentation).
  • Angle configurations and the S-centroid: modeling changing planar locations in the vowel space. Sociolinguistics Symposium 18, Southampton, September. (with Anne Fabricius).
  • Differences in perceived sound quality between speech recordings filtered using transmission loss spectra of selected fabrics. IAFPA (International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics) Conference 2010, Trier, Germany, July. (with Carmen Llamas and Philip Harrison).
  • Speaker awareness, differential use of linguistic variables, and the expression of identity. LAUD Cognitive Sociolinguistics Symposium, Landau, Germany, March 2010. (with Carmen Llamas, Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall and Jennifer Nycz).
  • Voice Onset Time and the Scottish Vowel Length Rule along the Scottish-English border. BAAP 2010, London, March. (with Carmen Llamas, Gerry Docherty, Jennifer Nycz and Damien Hall).
  • Accent and identity on the Scottish/English border. Borders and Identities Conference (BIC2010), Newcastle upon Tyne, January. (with Carmen Llamas).
 
2009
  • Eliminating age- and sex-related differences in the graphical representation of spoken vowels. 1st International Visual Methods Conference, Leeds, September. (with Anne Fabricius and Tyler Kendall).
  • Rethinking the role of speaker agency. Keynote paper presented at UKLVC (UK Language Variation and Change Conference) 7, Newcastle upon Tyne, September.
  • Variation and change in /r/ in the Scottish/English borderland. UKLVC (UK Language Variation and Change Conference) 7, Newcastle upon Tyne, September. (with Carmen Llamas,Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall and Jen Nycz).
  • The effects of alcohol intoxication on vowel articulation. IAFPA (International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics) Conference 2009, Cambridge, August. (with Adam Lewis).
  • Phonological productions, perceptions and attitudes in the Scottish/English borderland. Production, Perception, Attitude, Leuven, Belgium, April. (with Carmen Llamas, Gerry Docherty and Damien Hall).
  • Trained listener judgments of rhoticity in English: what R we hearing? Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, January. (with Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Paul Foulkes, Tyler Kendall, Jillian Oddie, Philip Harrison and Colleen Kavanagh).
 
2008
  • Perception of r-fulness by trained listeners. NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) 37, Houston, TX, November. (with Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Tyler Kendall, Paul Foulkes, Jillian Oddie, Philip Harrison, and Colleen Kavanagh).
  • Variable /r/ use along the Scottish-English border. NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) 37, Houston, Texas, November. (with Carmen Llamas, Daniel Ezra Johnson, and Damien Hall; poster presentation).
  • Transmission loss properties of fabrics in garments used to cover the mouth and nose. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics Conference 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, July/August. (with Philip Harrison and Carmen Llamas).
  • Fundamental frequency and voice onset time in four varieties of Scottish English. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics Conference 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, July/August.
  • The salience of national identity markers in a border town: insights from linguistic accommodation. 11th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Tucson, July. (with Carmen Llamas, Daniel Ezra Johnson, and Heike Pichler).
  • A new speaker-intrinsic vowel formant frequency normalization algorithm for sociophonetics. Acoustics '08, June/July 2008, Paris (with Anne Fabricius and Daniel Ezra Johnson; invited panellists)
  • Rhoticity in four Scottish/English border localities. Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, Amsterdam, April. (with Carmen Llamas and Daniel Ezra Johnson).
  • Transmission loss properties of fabrics used in commonly-worn mouth and face coverings. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium 2008, Sheffield, March. (with Philip Harrison and Carmen Llamas).
  • A new speaker-intrinsic vowel normalisation algorithm for sociophonetics. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium, Sheffield, March. (with Anne Fabricius and Jillian Oddie).
 
2007
  • Effects of different types of face covering on speech acoustics and intelligibility: some preliminary observations. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) Conference 2007, College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth, July (with Damien Donnelly and Carmen Llamas).
  • Voice onset time and the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Aberdeen English. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, August (with Jillian Yurkova).
 
2006
  • Relating metalinguistic commentary to production patterns in Berwick English. Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, University of Limerick, July (with Carmen Llamas and Heike Pichler).
  • Rhoticity and competing national identities in Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland. Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, University of Limerick, July (poster presentation).
  • Rhotics in transition: variation in Berwick English /r/. BAAP 2006, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, April.
  • Rhoticity and national identity among Berwick English speakers. Northern Englishes Workshop, Lancaster University, March.
 
2005
  • Forensic phonetics. The Practical Side of Phonetics and Phonology: a Hands-On Science Colloquium, University of Rostock, July.
 
2004
  • Variation in the Middlesbrough English vowel system. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium 2004, Cambridge, UK, March (poster presentation with Carmen Llamas).
  • The phonetic properties of 'pre-aspirated' variants of (p, t, k) in the north-east of England. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium 2004, Cambridge, UK, March. (with Gerry Docherty and Paul Foulkes).
  • Acoustic analysis of variability in the Middlesbrough English vowel system. Sociolinguistics Symposium 15, University of Newcastle, April (with Carmen Llamas).
  • "We're all Scottish really": investigating the tension between claimed identity and linguistic behaviour in Berwick upon Tweed. Symposium on the Influence of the Languages of Scotland and Ireland on Linguistic Varieties in Northern England, Aberdeen, June. (with Heike Pichler).
 
2003
  • The phonetic properties of 'pre-aspirated' variants of (p, t, k) in the north-east of England, UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC) 4, Sheffield, September. (with Gerry Docherty and Paul Foulkes)
  • The Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Berwick English revisited, UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC) 4, Sheffield, September. (poster presentation with Heike Pichler).
  • On the distribution of pre-aspirated stops in Middlesbrough English. 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, August (poster presentation).
  • First accent acquisition: a study of phonetic variation in child-directed speech. 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, August. (poster presentation with Gerry Docherty and Paul Foulkes).
  • Pre-aspirated stops in Middlesbrough English: evidence from conversational data. 2nd International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE2), Uppsala, Sweden, June.
  • First accent acquisition: a study of phonetic variation in child-directed speech. 2nd International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE2), Uppsala, Sweden, June. (with Gerry Docherty and Paul Foulkes).
 
2002
  • Investigating variation in children's speech, 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Joensuu, Finland, August. (with Gerry Docherty, Paul Foulkes and Jenny Tillotson).
  • Phonological variation in child-directed speech, 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Joensuu, Finland, August. (with Gerry Docherty, Paul Foulkes and Jenny Tillotson).
  • England fans with Scottish accents: self-identity, projected identity and linguistic variation in Berwick upon Tweed. 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, August 2002, Joensuu, Finland.
  • On the emergence of structured phonological variation. LabPhon 8: 8th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (‘Varieties of Phonological Competence’), New Haven, CT, June. (with Gerry Docherty, Paul Foulkes and Jenny Tillotson).
  • Phonological variation in child-directed speech. Conference on English Phonology, Toulouse, June. (with Gerry Docherty, Paul Foulkes and Jenny Tillotson).
 
2001
  • On the emergence of structured phonological variation. Workshop on Early Phonological Acquisition, Carry-le-Rouet, Marseilles, October. (with Gerry Docherty, Paul Foulkes and Jenny Tillotson).
  • Phonological variation in child-directed speech. UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC) 3, York, July. (with Gerry Docherty, Paul Foulkes and Jenny Tillotson).
 
2000
  • The case for non-invariance: evidence from the acquisition of patterns of consonant realisation by Tyneside children. Symposium on Patterns of Speech Sounds in Unscripted Communication: Production-Perception-Phonology, Kiel, October (with Gerry Docherty and Paul Foulkes).
  • Phonological variation in child-directed speech. NWAV 29, Michigan State University, October (with Gerry Docherty, Paul Foulkes, Liz Parsons, Jaclyn Thompson and Jenny Tillotson).
  • Tracking the emergence of sociophonetic variation in 2-4 year-olds. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 29, Michigan State University, East Lansing, October (with Paul Foulkes and Gerry Docherty).
  • An acoustic investigation of vowel fronting in urban Yorkshire English. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 29, Michigan State University, East Lansing, October.
  • Phonological variation in child-directed speech. VIEW 2000, University of Essex, September (with Gerry Docherty, Paul Foulkes, Liz Parsons, Jaclyn Thompson and Jenny Tillotson).
  • An acoustic investigation of vowel fronting in urban Yorkshire English. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) 1, Barcelona, June-July.
  • Tracking the emergence of structured variation in 2-4 year olds. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) 1, Barcelona, June-July (with Gerry Docherty & Paul Foulkes).
  • 'I don't speak Geordie, I speak Northern': contact-induced levelling in two Tyneside vowels. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000, University of the West of England, April.
  • Tracking the emergence of sociophonetic variation in 2-4 year olds. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000, University of the West of England, Bristol, April (with Gerry Docherty & Paul Foulkes).
  • Patterns of vowel fronting in northern British English. BAAP (British Association of Academic Phoneticians) 2000, University of Glasgow, April.
  • Acquisition of (t) variants in Newcastle English. BAAP 2000, University of Glasgow, April (with Gerry Docherty & Paul Foulkes).
 
invited talks
  • Title TBA. Sociolinguistics Circle, University Copenhagen, November 2011.
  • Talking through facewear: the impact of face-concealing garments on speech acoustics and perception. City University, October 2011. (with Natalie Fecher).
  • Normalization and plotting. Workshop on Sociophonetic Methodology, LSA Institute, Boulder, CO., July 2011. (with Anne Fabricius and Tyler Kendall).
  • British, Scottish, English? National identity categories and sound change in a border region. Rice University, Houston, November 2010. (with Carmen Llamas).
  • Just a line on a map? Accent and identities on the Scottish/English border. Northumbrian Language Society annual lecture, October 2010. (with Carmen Llamas).
  • Language, borders and identities: investigating phonological variation, attitudes and perceptions on the Scottish/English border. Cardiff University, October 2010. (with Carmen Llamas).
  • Accuracy of earwitness reports: some current issues. Forensic Phonetics - Problems, Limitations and Promises. Aarhus University, Denmark, September 2010.
  • 'Myths and misconceptions': why clinicians and sociolinguists should talk more shop. University of East Anglia, February 2010.
  • Making sound judgments: some theoretical and practical issues in forensic speech science. University of Glasgow, February 2010.
  • Effects of face-concealing garments on speech acoustics and perception. Department of Psychology, University of York, February 2010 (with Carmen Llamas).
  • Accent of birth? Linking phonological variation to attitudes and identities on the Scottish/English border. University of Cambridge, January 2010.
  • Among the most meaningful of sounds: identities, attitudes and /r/ on the Scottish-English border. York St. John University, November 2009.
  • Linguistics at York. Languages for Life, Millthorpe School, York, October 2009. (with Carmen Llamas).
  • Talking of crime: the work of the forensic speech analyst. Lancaster University, January 2008.
  • Mr. Straw and the constituent's veil: some initial observations of the effects of different face coverings on speech acoustics and intelligibility. University of Leeds, January 2008 (also given at University of Newcastle, November 2007; with Carmen Llamas and Damien Donnelly).
  • Resolving the content of disputed utterances in forensic speech analysis. November 2007, University College Dublin.
  • Uses and abuses of forensic voice analysis. TechFest (Festival of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), September 2006, Aberdeen.
  • Scottish English and changes in Scottish identity since 1997. Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, University of Rostock, July 2005.
  • England fans with 'Scottish' accents: on the role of phonological variables as identity markers in Berwick upon Tweed. School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences, University of Newcastle, March 2004.
  • First accent acquisition: a study of phonetic variation in child-directed speech. Department of Speech and Language Sciences, Queen Margaret University College, May 2003.
  • Borders, identities and phonological variation in the north-east of England. Department of Language & Linguistics, University of Essex, February 2003 (with Carmen Llamas).
  • Investigating the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in a Scottish/English 'hybrid' variety. Linguistic Circle, Dept. of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, December 2002.
  • One size fits all: towards a normalisation algorithm for variable vowel formant data. Dept. of Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds, December 2001.
  • Acoustic analysis in sociolinguistics. Third North-West Centre for Linguistics Research Training Workshop: 'Researching Talk: Principles, Practice and Problems in the Collection and Analysis of Spoken Language Data'. Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk, November 2001 (with Paul Foulkes).
  • Phonological variation and social identity in Berwick upon Tweed. Dept. of English, University of Aberdeen, November 2001.
 
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