Edrychodd fy ymchwil PhD ar ynganiad ymhlith dysgwyr y Gymraeg. Defnyddiodd y gwaith ddulliau acwstig er mwyn  archwilio sut y mae dysgwyr o gefndiroedd ieithyddol gwahanaol yn cynhyrchu aceniad gerifaol ac yn defnyddio patrymau goslefol ar hyd ymadroddion cyflawn.

Mae’r traethawd llawn ar gael yma.

The Landsker Line describes a non-physical linguistic boundary between the English-speaking south of Pembrokeshire and the country’s Welsh-speaking north.

But how relevant is the idea of this linguistic division in today’s Pembs?

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Published in the inaugural issue of Cardiff University’s Short Papers in Language and Linguistics (SPiLL). Here I discuss the problems and frustrations of operationalizing speaker types in linguistic research. What is a ‘native speaker’ and how do linguists go about defining this term in the context of their research?

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Soft vowels? Hard vowels? What about a slender consonant? The descriptions of sounds we receive in language classes often don’t really mean much. Here I argue for a more phonetically-informed approach to the teaching of pronunciation in second language classes and give some examples of the kind of instructions and resources I use with my own learners.

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How can we analyse phonologically ambiguous intonation data of lesser-studied minority languages which exist in situations of historical and contemporary language contact?

This short paper, co-authored with Connor McCabe, presents two turning points analyses of Muster Irish and Southern Welsh. We provide a comparative summary which underscores the value of turning point analyses as an intermediary step in addressing ambiguous intonation data, while avoiding premature conclusions about phonological representation.

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