BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.7//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news272@english.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201111T143012 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201112T141500 SUMMARY:Analyzing Phonetic and Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in Brit ish English Using App and Twitter Data DESCRIPTION:In traditional dialectology\, linguists travel to selected loca lities to collect data from mostly older speakers. With the advent of smar tphone and web-apps\, surveying people can be done online via so-called cr owdsourcing. In this talk I will present how\, over the past years\, we cr owdsourced data from speakers of British English via smartphone apps and T witter. I will showcase findings on the FOOT / STRUT split\, TH-fronting\, as well as dative alternation (amongst others). Collecting data in this w ay comes at a price: substantial noise in the data (literally and metaphor ically). To end the talk (and somewhat off-topic)\, I want to address the issue of linguistic data collection during a pandemic – a very current t opic – and discuss how a combination of new methods (e.g. apps and video conferencing) enables the continuation of high-quality data collection\, d espite a global emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic.\\r\\nIf you would like to listen to this guest lecture\, please contact Dr. Jakob Leimgrube r [mailto:jakob.leimgruber@unibas.ch] to obtain the necessary Zoom link. X-ALT-DESC:

In traditional dialectology\, linguists travel to selected lo calities to collect data from mostly older speakers. With the advent of sm artphone and web-apps\, surveying people can be done online via so-called crowdsourcing. In this talk I will present how\, over the past years\, we crowdsourced data from speakers of British English via smartphone apps and Twitter. I will showcase findings on the FOOT / STRUT split\, TH-fronting \, as well as dative alternation (amongst others). Collecting data in this way comes at a price: substantial noise in the data (literally and metaph orically). To end the talk (and somewhat off-topic)\, I want to address th e issue of linguistic data collection during a pandemic – a very current topic – and discuss how a combination of new methods (e.g. apps and vid eoconferencing) enables the continuation of high-quality data collection\, despite a global emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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If you would like to listen to this guest lecture\, please contact Dr. J akob Leimgruber to obtain the necessary Zoom link.

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