Galician

Safeguarding minoritised languages in a global world: protecting and promoting the Galician language.

Dates: 2021-2023 Funding: Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship Summary: The project focusses on safeguarding Galician, a minoritised language in north-west Spain undergoing a process of language shift, as younger generations increasingly speak Spanish.

Sociolinguistic Awareness in Galician Bilinguals: Evidence from an Accent Identification Task

The inclusion of European minority languages in public spaces such as education, administration and the media has led to the emergence of a new profile of speakers, “new speakers”, who typically acquire a minority language through education, but vary …

The effects of language dominance switch in bilingual: Galician new speakers'' speech production and perception

It has long been debated whether speech production and perception remain flexible in adulthood. The current study investigates the effects of language dominance switch in Galician new speakers (neofalantes) who are raised with Spanish as a primary …

O papel dos factores sociais no procesamento da fala bilingüe.

The role of social factors in bilingual speech processing: the case of Galician New Speakers

It has long been debated whether speech processing remains flexible in adulthood. This thesis contributes to our understanding of this question by investigating bilingual speech development in a naturalistic setting. Galician ‘new speakers’ …

Switching language dominance for ideological reasons: A study of Galician new speakers speech production and perception

In minority language communities, language choice may be related to identity. In the bilingual community of Galicia, some speakers switch language dominance at a late stage in development, normally during adolescence. These 'new speakers', …

The role of social factors in bilingual speech processing: the case of Galician New Speakers.

Dates: 2013-2021 Collaborators: Bronwen G. Evans (UCL), Robert Mayr (Cardiff Metropolitan University) Summary: This project uses phonetic methods, perception tasks and eye-tracking to investigate Galician-Spanish bilinguals' speech production and perception, with a focus on Galician new speakers (neofalantes).