The Corpus Phonology of English

Uses corpus data to investigate variation and change in contemporary varieties of spoken English Examines spoken varieties of English in Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand and the USAExamines English in comparison to French, Polish and Japanese Draws on data from the PAC Lancashire, Boston, Manchester, Michigan and Dunedin corpora, the IDEA corpus and the Greater Poland Speech CorpusBrings together an international range of contributors in various fields of phonolo