| Date |
Paper/Station |
Title |
Content |
| 25.11.2024 |
BBC Future |
Is there something special about the human voice? |
Analysis of AI-generated spoken language, in which Jonathan Harrington and IPS employees were involved |
| 23.02.2024 |
BBC Future |
Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent |
Article about results from the Antarctica study conducted as part of the ERC-Projekt "Human interaction and the evolution of spoken accent" |
| 11.10.2022 |
FAZ |
Ka i au amaol a Oi aufmacha? |
Article based among others on findings published in Wolfswinkler & Harrington (2021). |
| 01.10.2022 |
rosenheim24.de |
Studie: Bayerische Kinder passen sich Standarddeutsch an – erzieht Ihr Eure Kinder im Dialekt? |
Report about the results in Wolfswinkler & Harrington (2021). |
| 28.09.2022 |
BR24 |
Dialekt: Kinder in Bayern passen Vokale an Standarddeutsch an |
News report and interview with Katrin Wolfswinkler about the recently published results in Wolfswinkler & Harrington (2021), Journal of the International Phonetic Association. |
| 15.09.2022 |
BBC Future |
The accent of the world's longest-serving monarch evolved during her long reign – reflecting enormous social shifts that occurred during that time. |
Article about sound changes in the Queen's pronounciation with references to Harrington & Reubold (2021). |
| 26.08.2022 |
Abendzeitung |
Kinder und Dialekte in Bayern: "Sprache ändert sich ständig" |
Interview with Jonathan Harrington about recently published results in Wolfswinkler (IPS) & Harrington (IPS) (2021), Journal of the International Phonetic Association. |
| 26.08.2022 |
ULaval Nouvelles |
Intégrer l'accent de Québec |
Article based on interview with Josiane Riverin-Coutlée about recently published results in Riverin-Coutlée (IPS, LMU), Roy (Univ. Laval) & Gubian (IPS, LMU), Language & Speech |
| 22.08.2022 |
LMU News |
Beim Unterhalten ahmen wir uns gegenseitig nach |
Interview with Jonathan Harrington about sound and dialect change and his latest ERC-project SoundAct. |
| 05.06.2022 |
Sunday Times |
Fencey that: the Queen’s accent has got, like, less posh |
Article by Jonathan Harrington. Contact jmh@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de for the full article. |
| 26.06.2020 |
96bonnFM |
Antarktis-Dialekt |
Interview about results from the Antarctica study conducted as part of the ERC project "Human interaction and the evolution of spoken accent" |
| 04.05.2020 |
BYU Radio |
There’s an Antarctica Accent. No, Really |
Interview about results from the Antarctica study conducted as part of the ERC project "Human interaction and the evolution of spoken accent" |
| 20.04.2020 |
Atlas Obscura |
Prolonged Isolation Can Lead to the Creation of New Accents |
Article about results from the Antarctica study conducted as part of the ERC project "Human interaction and the evolution of spoken accent" |
| 20.02.2020 |
CuriosityStream / YouTube |
Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent |
Report about results from the Antarctica study conducted as part of the ERC project "Human interaction and the evolution of spoken accent" |
| 11.12.2019 |
Scientific American |
Linguists hear an accent begin |
Report about results from the ERC project "Human interaction and the evolution of spoken accent" published 2019 in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 146 (also available as Apple Podcast) |
| 13.08.2018 |
Deutschlandfunk |
Es konnte gefährlich sein mit meiner Mittelstands-Aussprache |
Interview with Jonathan Harrington in the DLF programme Forschung Aktuell ('Science today') |
| 06.06.2018 |
Süddeutsche Zeitung |
Mehr als Worte |
Newspaper report about Mona Späth and Hanna Jakob and their startup company Neolexon |
| 19.03.2018 |
BBC Future |
How hard is it to fake an accent? |
Jonathan Harrington about unconscious imitation of accents |
| 07.07.2017 |
The Times |
Richard Morrison: Has ‘Blowers’ been discriminated against for his posh voice? Nah! |
This article on how RP has changed refers to Jonathan Harrington's research on sound change: "[...] the rise of working-class politicians: all these left their trace on RP. The most memorable research on this was done by Jonathan Harrington, who analysed three decades of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts and found that even Her Majesty no longer speaks 'the Queen’s English' [...]" |
| 04.02.2016 |
BBC Future |
Has the Queen become frightfully common? |
Report about the IPS research on sound change which has been based on the Queen's Christmas broadcasts |
| 19.05.2014 |
BR |
Campus Magazin: Der Europäische Forschungsrat ERC |
TV report on Marianne Pouplier's ERC-funded project 'Stability and change in sound patterns of the world’s languages' |
| 03.04.2012 |
BBC Radio 4 |
The Queen's Speech |
Jonathan Harrington about sound change |
| 09.08.2011 |
Deutschlandradio Wissen |
Sprachsynthese - Das Problem, eine menschliche Stimme zu generieren |
Florian Schiel in a radio broadcast on speech synthesis |
