In this episode, Paige Hawkins interviews Dr Anita Szakay about her paper on bilingualism:

Szakay, A., Babel, M. & King, J. (2016) Social categories are shared across bilinguals’ lexicons. Journal of Phonetics 59:92–109 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2016.09.005)

0:28 What about Māori languages interests me. What languages are spoken in New Zealand and what influences the languages spoken.

2:20 An explanation of the differences in the languages in New Zealand.

6:38 What is bilingual priming? Using a lexical decision task.

10:20 Discussing the research question for my paper and the methods of study and research.

14:14 How the results indicated that accent is important in the lexical decision task.

16:01 How social categories are activated and how this affects speech perception. The combination of social information and linguistics.

18:16 Areas for follow up research, social categories and alternative languages. The connection between grammatical and speaker gender.