Brad Mackay

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).

Schleef, Erik, & Bradley Mackay. 2021. Evaluation of pragmatic markers: The case of you know. In E. Peterson, J. Kern, & T. Hiltunen (Eds.), Discourse-pragmatic variation and change: Theory, innovations, contact. 40-60. Cambridge University Press.

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)

Brad Mackay, PhD

Bradley Mackay

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University of Michigan

University of Salzburg

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Language change beyond the binary: T-glottaling in East Sussex

Lifespan change and sexuality: /s/, pitch and vowel space before and after coming out

The Heterogeneity of Sex-Based Categories: a Quantitative Acoustic Analysis of Phonetic Variation in Gay and Straight Speech

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

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