Bradley Mackay
Lecturer & Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Michigan.
Teaching
University of Michigan
Research
Mackay, Bradley, Esme Richardson‑Owen and Erik Schleef. ACCEPTED. Journal of Language & Sexuality.
Amplifiers in Southern British English at the Intersection of Gender and Sexuality.
Coetzee, Andries, Lorenzo García‑Amaya, Nicholas Henriksen, Bradley Mackay, Martin Mössmer,
Jiseung Kim, Yolandi Ribbens‑Klein & Daan Wissing. TO APPEAR. Journal of Germanic Linguistics.
Supplementing Historical Evidence with Linguistics Evidence: On the Regional Provenance of Patagonian Afrikaans.
Schleef, Erik, Evelyn Roth, Bradley Mackay and Jana Pflaeging. 2025. Noticeability, Identification
and Discrimination of Sociolinguistic Variants in England. English Language and Linguistics. 30(1),
71–102
Pflaeging, Jana, Bradley Mackay and Erik Schleef. 2025. Sociolinguistic Monitoring and L2 Speakers
of English. Linguistics. 63(3), 607–638.
Coretta, Stefano, Joseph V. Casillas, Simon Roessig, Michael Franke, …Bradley Mackay et al. 2023.
Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human‑speech
analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 6(3).
Language change beyond the binary: T-glottaling in East Sussex
UKLVC14 2023 | Edinburgh
Lifespan change and sexuality: /s/, pitch and vowel space before and after coming out
Previous research on language and sexuality has explored a wide range of phonetic features and found many of these to correlate with different sexual identities. However, it remains unclear how sexuality is indexed before coming out as gay.
The Heterogeneity of Sex-Based Categories: a Quantitative Acoustic Analysis of Phonetic Variation in Gay and Straight Speech
PhD Thesis
Sex, Gender & Sexuality: A Quantitative Acoustic Analysis of /l/ Lenition in Southern British English
Voice Onset Time as an Index of Sexuality in Gay and Straight Speech
Paper presented at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics Conference, Manchester (2017)






