Marc Barnard

I'm a PhD researcher based at Queen Mary University of London, funded by LISS-DTP (ESRC). I'm supervised by Devyani Sharma (QMUL) and Bronwen Evans (UCL).

My research interests lie mainly within sociophonetics, speech perception and variationist sociolinguistics. I'm interested in accent change among adult speakers, and particularly how cognitive differences between individuals may influence the perception and acquisition of linguistic variation.

My thesis considers second dialect acquisition among participants from the North West of England, who have moved to the South of England. I am interested in how and why speakers' production and perception change after migration, with a particular focus on sociolinguistic awareness, identity and individual cognitive factors.