New Thinking: City Talk

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Greater Manchester was created in the 1970s, bringing together areas that had previously been parts of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cheshire, as well as the City of Manchester itself. These areas all had (and have) quite different accents, so Erin Carrie and Rob Drummond, of Manchester Metropolitan University, have set out to document the accents of Greater Manchester, as a way of investigating whether there's a Greater Manchester identity, and what it is if there is one. John Gallagher talks to Erin and Rob about the methods they've used and what they've found out in the process. https://www.manchestervoices.org/ Dr John Gallagher is a Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Leeds

This podcast was made with the assistance of the AHRC - the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) which funds research at universities and museums, galleries and archives across the UK into the arts and humanities. The AHRC works in partnership with BBC Radio 3 on the New Generation Thinkers scheme to make academic research available to a wider audience.

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0:32.7	Hello, you're listening to the Arts and Ideas podcast.
0:36.1	I'm John Gallowher, and this edition is part of our
0:38.4	series New Thinking, looking at new research in UK universities. Now, I've only just started talking,
0:45.4	but if you've been listening carefully, you'll already know something about me. From my accent
0:50.2	alone, you might have clocked that I'm Irish. We sometimes forget that it's not just
0:55.0	the words we say that carry meaning. The sound of our voices can tell listeners a whole lot about
1:00.8	us. Today, I'm talking with two researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University,
1:05.6	who've been listening to the Voices of the People as part of a new project on accents in
1:09.4	Greater Manchester. From the Manchester Voices project, I spoke to Dr. Aaron Carey, senior lecturer in linguistics,
1:16.6	and Dr. Rob Drummond, reader in linguistics.
1:19.6	And as today's podcast is coming from the bustling keys of Salford in Greater Manchester,
1:24.6	you may hear just a little background noise.
1:26.6	I started by asking Aaron and Rob to describe each other's accents.
1:31.6	Oh, that's an interesting one.
1:33.3	I'll start by describing Rob's then.
1:35.7	Rob has a southern English accent.
1:39.1	It's very nice, very charming, and yeah, it sounds very friendly. Okay, and Erin, Erin has a Scottish accent
1:50.0	and I must admit I'm not very good with identifying different Scottish accents. I can hear
1:56.5	the differences quite well, but I'm not very good at placing where different Scottish
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