Mercedes Durham

I am member of the Centre for Language and Communication.

I am a sociolinguist focusing primarily on language variation and change. My research is broadly concerned with how linguistic variation (and with it, language change) is acquired, transmitted and viewed by individual speakers and across successive generations.

I have been at Cardiff University since September 2012. Before that I worked as a lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen from 2008 to 2012. I have also worked and taught at the Universities of York, Glasgow and Leeds.

I grew up and studied in Switzerland, getting my first degree at the University of Lausanne and my doctorate at the University of Fribourg.

Speak for Yersel - Wales

https://speakforyersel.ac.uk/wales/ (You can take the survey via the link as well as see the current results for it)

Research interests

Language Variation and Change
Sociolinguistics
Native and non-native Acquisition of Variation
Dialect shift
Native and non-native varieties of English