Dr Jenny Amos

PhD Linguistics (University of Essex)

MA (Hons) Sociolinguistics (University of Essex)

BA (Hon) English Language and Linguistics (University of Essex)

Dr Amos has a wide range of Teaching and Learning experience including, but not limited to:

- Theoretical and Laboratory phonology

- Language Variation and Change

- The interaction of Dialects in Literature and Film

- Conversational Structure

- Language Acquisition and Development

- Language Disorders

- Education and Pedagogical practice and research

Publications

Selected publications (see ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0730-9740 for full listing)

Amos, J. (2010) A Sociophonological Analysis of Mersea Island English: An investigation of the diphthongs (au), (ai) and (oi). Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Essex (UK). Available at: https://roa.rutgers.edu/content/article/files/1208_amos_1.pdf

Amos,J., Kasstan, J,. (fc) Semantic effects constrain [mi] variant selection in Mersea English (Submitted and under review)

Amos,J., Kasstan, J,. and Johnson, W. (2020) Reconsidering (t, d)-deletion as a single variable in English; English Today 36:6-13

Amos, J. and Jansen, S. (eds) Language in the South of England: Special edition of English Today; English today (36)

Amos, J. (2013) Life on the Edge: A sociophonological analysis of diphthong variation and change; Essex Research Reports 62:2, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex (UK)

Jansen, S. and Amos, J. (2020) English in the South of England – an introduction; Special Edition of English Today (36)

Academic Papers and Conferences

2021

- New Ways of Analysing Variation conference (Online – University of Texas) Presenter: Weighing formal and variationist accounts of variable possessive construction in British English

2021

- Linguistics Association of Great Britain conference (Online) Presenter: Weighing accounts of variable possessive construction in British English: A view from Mersea Island

2019

- I was on the scientific committee for the United Kingdom Language Variation and Change conference held at Queen Mary University of London

2018

- Linguistics Association of Great Britain conference (University of Sheffield) Presenter: Reconsidering (t,d)-deletion as a single variable in English

2017

- Language Variation and Change in the South (University of Suffolk) Organiser

- Language Variation and Change in the South (University of Suffolk) Presenter Joined up thinking: A new approach to t/d Deletion

- UK Language Variation and Change conference (Cardiff University) Presenter: New Perspectives on t/d Deletion

2016

- Sociolinguistics Symposium 21 (Universidad de Murcia) Presenter: The Raising and Lowering of High Tides: An investigation of /ai/ and /au/ diphthong variation in Mersea Island English

2015

- Variation, change and spoken corpora: advances in the phonology and phonetics of contemporary English (University of Montpellier) Co-Presented with Dr Wyn Johnson: Joined Up Thinking About T/D Deletion in English

- London Phonology Society meeting at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),

- London. Presenter: Sociophonology: Investigating not just ‘What?’ but ‘Why?’