Melody Pattison

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I am a sociolinguist currently working at Cardiff University. My interests include language variation and change, dialectology, language contact and language attitudes. For my PhD (University of York) I researched vowel change over time in a regional Dutch dialect.

I teach across a number of linguistic subject areas, including sociolinguistics, phonetics, stylistics, and discourse. My most recent research has been on assessment and feedback in education, and using linguistic analysis as an early tool for detecting signs of dementia.

I am originally from Melbourne, Australia, where I gained my Bachelor (Melbourne), Graduate Diploma (Melbourne), and Master (Monash) degrees, before moving to the UK in 2014.

Experience

  • 2018–present
    Lecturer, Cardiff University
  • 2014–2017
    Seminar Tutor in Linguistics, University of York

Education

  • 2019 
    University of York, PhD in Linguistics
  • 2013 
    Monash University, Master of Applied Linguistics

Publications

  • 2026
    Detecting dementia using lexical analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld tells a more personal story, Brain Sciences
  • 2025
    Implementing the EAT Framework to enhance assessment literacy and feedback practices, Active Learning in Higher Education
  • 2021
    Regional variation of HUIS in Achterhoeks, Taal en Tongval
  • 2017
    Rural and non-rural variation between [y] and [u] in the Achterhoeks dialect, York Papers in Linguistics

Professional Memberships

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

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