Publications and theses

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Bailey, George. 2019. Ki(ng) in the north: Effects of duration, boundary, and pause on post-nasal [ɡ]-presence. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonolog 10(1):3, 1-26. doi: 10.5334/labphon.115
Bailey, George. 2019. Emerging from below the social radar: Incipient evaluation in the North West of England. Journal of Sociolinguistics 23(1), 3-28. doi: 10.1111/josl.12307
Bailey, George. 2018. Variation and change in Northern English velar nasals: Production and perception. Doctoral dissertation, University of Manchester.
Bailey, George. 2016. Automatic detection of sociolinguistic variation using forced alignment. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected Papers from NWAV 44 22(2), 10-22.
Bailey, George. 2015. Social and internal constraints on (ing) in Northern Englishes. Master's dissertation, University of Manchester

Invited talks

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Bailey, George. 2018. When sound change isn’t led by social change: The case of Northern English (ng). Paper presented at the Philological Society meeting on 'Language change in its socio-historical context', University of Sheffield, 16th November
Nichols, Stephen & George Bailey. 2018. All paths lead to [ʃ]: Varying sibilant articulation and s-retraction in Manchester English. Paper presented at the University of Manchester Linguistics and English Language Research Seminar, 9th October
Bailey, George. 2016. Regional variation in 140 characters: mapping geospatial tweets. Paper presented at the Workshop on Using Twitter for Linguistic Research, University of Kent, 31st May

Selected talks and posters

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Nichols, Stephen & George Bailey. 2018. Revealing covert articulation in s-retraction. Paper presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Sheffield, 12th September
Nichols, Stephen & George Bailey. 2018. Gradience and categoricity in s-retraction: An ultrasound study of Manchester English. Poster presented at the 2018 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, University of Kent, 14th April. Winner of the Eugénie Henderson prize for best poster
Bailey, George & Stephen Nichols. 2018. Retraction on Coronation [ʃ]treet: An ultrasound-tongue-imaging study of s-retraction in Manchester English. Paper presented at the 8th Northern Englishes Workshop, Newcastle University, 28th March
Bailey, George. 2018. Emerging from below the social radar: Evaluation of post-nasal [g] in the North West of England. Paper presented at the 8th Northern Englishes Workshop, Newcastle University, 27th March. Winner of the best student paper prize
Bailey, George. 2017. Velar nasal plus in the north of (ing)land. Paper presented at UKLVC11, Cardiff University, 31st August
Bailey, George. 2017. Synchronic evidence for diachronic pathways of change: /g/-deletion and the life cycle of phonological processes. Paper presented at FWAV4, University of York, 29th June
Bailey, George. 2017. Synchronic evidence for diachronic pathways of change: /g/-deletion and the life cycle of phonological processes. Poster presented at the 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, 27th May
Bailey, George. 2016. Velar nasal plus in the north of (ing)land. Paper presented at NWAV 45, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 4th November
Baranowski, Maciej, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, George Bailey & Danielle Turton. 2016. Ahead but not faster: The effect of high token frequency on sound change. Paper presented at NWAV 45, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 4th November
Bailey, George, Danielle Turton, Maciej Baranowski & Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero. 2016. A stationary frequency effect in Manchester English. Paper presented at the LAGB Annual Meeting 2016, University of York, 8th September
Turton, Danielle, George Bailey, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero & Maciej Baranowski. 2016. A stationary frequency effect in Manchester English. Paper presented at the 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, 27th May
Bailey, George. 2016. Velar nasal plus in the north of (ing)land. Paper presented at the 7th Northern Englishes Workshop, University of Edinburgh, 14th April
Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo, Maciej Baranowski, George Bailey & Danielle Turton. 2015. A constant rate effect in Manchester /t/-glottalling: High-frequency words are ahead of, but change at the same rate as, low-frequency words. Paper presented at the Edinburgh Symposium of Historical Phonology 2, University of Edinburgh, 3rd December
Bailey, George. 2015. Orthographic reflections of (ing): A Twitter-based corpus study. Poster presented at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics, University of Manchester, 6th November
Bailey, George. 2015. Automatic detection of sociolinguistic variation in forced-alignment. Paper presented at NWAV 44, University of Toronto, 24th October
Bailey, George. 2015. Linguistic markers of England's north-south dialectal divide: An attitudinal study of bath and strut. Poster presented at UKLVC 10, University of York, 1st September
Bailey, George. 2014. East Fife, four... Forfar, five: Intonation of the classified football results. Paper presented at Manchester Forum in Linguistics, University of Manchester, 13th November
MacKenzie, Laurel, George Bailey & Danielle Turton. 2014. Crowdsourcing dialectology in the undergraduate classroom. Paper presented at Methods in Dialectology XV, University of Groningen, 12th August
Bailey, George. 2014. That's how people grow up: Language change across Morrissey's lifespan. Poster presented at Reflections on Language, University of Manchester, 10th May