TALKS

Selected conference presentations.

Tracking dialect change in London-based New Zealanders: A real-time study of variation and change in the short front vowels. UKLVC, 2-4 September 2025.

Can someone explain this?: Variation and change in the personal compound determinative doublets –body and –one in Outer-Circle Englishes. SAUTE, 2-7 June 2025.

Fabulous toffee aristocrats have the best accents: Attitudinal variation among London-based New Zealanders. NWAV 52, 7-9 November 2024.

The serpent’s tongue: Phonological variation and ideological constructions in an invented language. NWAV 52, 7-9 November 2024.

“they see that I’m just Tongan, but like with really good English”: Conflicting language ideologies in the Kingdom of Tonga. IAWE, 14-17 June 2023.

Rhythm in the Kingdom: An analysis of speech rhythm in Tongan English using a quantitative metric. NWAV-AP 7, December 2022.

Tongan and English in the linguistic landscape of downtown Nuku’alofa, the Kingdom of Tonga. NZLS, 8 December 2022.

/r/ in the Kingdom of Tonga: The role of a faith school in language variation. NWAV AP, 17-20 February 2021.

English in the Kingdom: A preliminary analysis of Tongan English as an emergent variety. SWELL, 12 March 2021.

English in the Kingdom: A preliminary analysis of Tongan English as an emergent variety. Language and Society, 10-12 February 2021.