Dr Chloe Castle

@drchloecastle.bsky.social

Psycholinguist + sociolinguist interested in multilingualism, L3/Ln acquisition and heritage and community languages Cohost of @whenlanguagesmeet.bsky.social 🧠👄🎙💻🔍 www.chloecastle.com

When multilinguals hear speech in a certain accent, does that activate syntax from the associated language? We explore this in our most recent paper, the role of accentedness in acceptability judgements in L3 Norwegian: an across-domain investigation - check it out here: doi.org/10.1080/1479...

The role of accentedness in acceptability judgements in L3 Norwegian: an across-domain investigation

Foreign-accented speech has been explored from various perspectives, yet the current study is one of the first to investigate the role of accentedness in relation to acceptability judgements in mul...

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Spotted at the Chinatown Heritage Centre today - the phrasing “growing up years” rather than “childhood” did not fit in with my own dialectal expectations (Sth Aust English) - I am wondering whether this is more common to use in Sing English, cross-linguistic influence from Chinese (or both) (1/2)

Text describing the tailor workshop at the Chinatown Heritage Centre

Listening to this fab politeness episode and during the part on backchannelling I was thinking about how much more intensively I backchannelled (and how different my backchannelling sounded) when I was living in Norway! 🇳🇴🗣️ #lingsky

Lingthusiasm@lingthusiasm.com · 2y ago

If it wouldn't be too much trouble, if you have a spare half hour, could we possibly suggest that you might enjoy listening to this episode on politeness? In this episode: the secret ingredients that we're balancing to try to be polite!