Tom is currently engaged in two research projects exploring functions of tone in Cameroon Pidgin English and speech patterns in the Afro-Caribbean community who live in the East Midlands of England. He is a lecturer at Huddersfield University and teaches modules related to sociolinguistics and phonetics and phonology.
Dr Tom Devlin: Staffordshire and West Midlands Accents and Dialects
Friday 21st February 2020, 20:00-20:00
Tom is a sociophonetician with interests in variation and change in English accents and dialects. His PhD examined levelling of traditional accent features in former coalfield communities in County Durham in the North East of England.
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