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Dr Amanda Cole

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Institute for Analytics and Data Science), Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex

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Louder Than Words: You can say that again

Professor Jules Pretty, Dr Amanda Cole, Dr Ella Jeffries

16 November 2023

Cockney and Queen’s English have all but disappeared among young people

Dr Amanda Cole

28 October 2023

The cockney dialect is not dead, it's just called Essex now

Dr Amanda Cole

27 February 2023

Speaking of Essex: Artwork celebrating Essex dialects

Dr Amanda Cole, Dr Ella Jeffries

03 November 2022

Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing your working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination

Dr Amanda Cole

15 September 2022

Who speaks “chavvy”? Comparing accent and class prejudice in England and The Netherlands

Dr Amanda Cole, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

25 August 2022

Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality

Dr Amanda Cole, Dr Ella Jeffries , Professor Peter Patrick

11 March 2022

Haemorrhaging: why some words are so easy to mispronounce (and why that could be a good thing)

Dr Amanda Cole, Dr Connor Youngberg, Dr Faith Chiu

31 January 2022

Working-class and ethnic minority accents in south-east England judged as less intelligent - new research

Dr Amanda Cole

07 October 2021

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