Show notes for Episode 8Here are the show notes for Episode 8 which is a special edition on Northern accents where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew (2 proper Northerners, a Welsh person and a soft, southern shandy drinker) talk about:Northern accents, dialect levelling and reports of a new ‘educated middle class northern English accent’ emerging.And we talk to Dr Georgina Brown from Lancaster University about the study itself.Georgina Brown’s Lancaster University page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/georgina-brownNorthern accents are becoming more similar, suggests new researchA link posted by project leader Patrycja Strycharczuk about the Manchester research: Strycharczuk et al.’s Frontiers paper sparks controversyThe paper itself can be found here: General Northern English. Exploring Regional Variation in the North of England With Machine Learning Patrycja Strycharczuk (@PatStrycharczuk)Kevin Watson on Scouse: Scousers are proud of their accentCambridge University’s app to measure dialect change: Do you say splinter, spool, spile or spell? English Dialects app tries to guess your regional accentCambridge app maps decline in regional diversity of English dialectsMedia reports on the paperGuardian: Northern English accents becoming more similar, researchers findMail Online: Northern accents 'are becoming more similar'Daily Telegraph: Northern accents becoming more similar as middle-class 'General Northern English' emerges, study findsIndependent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/northern-accents-more-similar-distinct-cities-manchester-leeds-sheffield-a9623071.htmlA great Twitter account to follow if you want to see how Twitter can be used for dialect research: https://twitter.com/tweetolectologyContact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on SpotifyContributorsMatthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerwyLisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlanceyMusic: Freenotes