Dr Ianto Gruffydd
(he/him)
AFHEA BA, PhD
Research Associate
School of English, Communication and Philosophy
- Welsh speaking
Overview
I am a research associate on the sociolinguistic South Wales Speech project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Our research aims to measure language variation and change in four communities across south east Wales from the conurbation of Cardiff and Barry to the valley towns of Pontypridd and Caerphilly.
My doctoral research was also in the field of language variation and chance, examining the sociophonetics of Cardiff Welsh for the first time. Cardiff Welsh is a new variety of Welsh that had never before been studied. My PhD used an ethnographic approach and analysed how social structures influence variation in Welsh for the first time.
I also research explicit and implicit language attitudes, specifically aiming to improve our understanding of the relationship between speakers' attitudes and language in minority language speakers. Similarly, I am interested in the perception of different Welsh accents.
Publication
2024
- Brasca, L., Tamburelli, M., Gruffydd, I. and Breit, F. 2024. A matter of strength: Language policy, attitudes, and linguistic dominance in three bilingual communities. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (10.1080/01434632.2024.2408448)
- Gruffydd, I., Tamburelli, M., Breit, F. and Bagheri, H. 2024. Investigating the relationship between language exposure and explicit and implicit language attitudes towards Welsh and English. Journal of Language and Social Psychology
2023
- Gruffydd, I. 2023. Amrywio ffonolegol (ai) yn y sillaf olaf ddiacen yng Nghymraeg Caerdydd. Gwerddon 35, pp. 47-75. (10.61257/vabg1015)
- Breit, F., Tamburelli, M., Gruffydd, I. and Brasca, L. 2023. The L'ART Research Assistant: A digital toolkit for bilingualism and language attitude research. Working paper. Bangor University.
- Breit, F., Tamburelli, M. and Gruffydd, I. 2023. L’ART Research Assistant. GitHub.
2022
- Gruffydd, I. 2022. Astudiaeth o amrywio ieithyddol yng nghyd-destun adfywio ieithyddol yng Nghymraeg Caerdydd. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
- Morris, J., Ezeani, I., Gruffydd, I., Young, K., Davies, L., El-Haj, M. and Knight, D. 2022. Welsh automatic text summarisation. Presented at: Wales Academic Symposium on Language Technologies 2022, Bangor, Wales, 28/01/2022Language and Technology in Wales, Vol. 2. Bangor: Banolfan Bedwyr
Articles
- Brasca, L., Tamburelli, M., Gruffydd, I. and Breit, F. 2024. A matter of strength: Language policy, attitudes, and linguistic dominance in three bilingual communities. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (10.1080/01434632.2024.2408448)
- Gruffydd, I., Tamburelli, M., Breit, F. and Bagheri, H. 2024. Investigating the relationship between language exposure and explicit and implicit language attitudes towards Welsh and English. Journal of Language and Social Psychology
- Gruffydd, I. 2023. Amrywio ffonolegol (ai) yn y sillaf olaf ddiacen yng Nghymraeg Caerdydd. Gwerddon 35, pp. 47-75. (10.61257/vabg1015)
Conferences
- Morris, J., Ezeani, I., Gruffydd, I., Young, K., Davies, L., El-Haj, M. and Knight, D. 2022. Welsh automatic text summarisation. Presented at: Wales Academic Symposium on Language Technologies 2022, Bangor, Wales, 28/01/2022Language and Technology in Wales, Vol. 2. Bangor: Banolfan Bedwyr
Monographs
- Breit, F., Tamburelli, M., Gruffydd, I. and Brasca, L. 2023. The L'ART Research Assistant: A digital toolkit for bilingualism and language attitude research. Working paper. Bangor University.
Other
- Breit, F., Tamburelli, M. and Gruffydd, I. 2023. L’ART Research Assistant. GitHub.
Thesis
- Gruffydd, I. 2022. Astudiaeth o amrywio ieithyddol yng nghyd-destun adfywio ieithyddol yng Nghymraeg Caerdydd. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Research
Research Themes
Language Variation and Change
My researches focusses on variation and change in both Welsh and Welsh English. Firstly, my research on Welsh is borne out of the current sociolinguistic landscape of Wales whereby demographic changes is giving rise to notable linguistic developments. Increased mobility and migration has led to linguistic changes in both languages that my research aims to examine by considering the effect lingusitic and social factors have on these language varieties. Specifically I have researched Cardiff Welsh, a new variety of Welsh spoken by young people, that arose through the growth of Welsh-medium education and migration to the city from traditional Welsh-speaking areas. Currently, I am working on the Leverhulme-funded South Wales Speech project headed by Professor Mercedes Durham exploring language variation and change between Cardiff and three south east Welsh towns (Barry, Pontypridd and Caerphilly). Our project aims to investigate the potential regional dialect levelling and diffusion of features to and from the Welsh capital in this area of south east Wales.
Language Attitudes and Language Revitalization
I am also interested in language attitudes, particularly towards minority languages. My research as part of the Language Attitudes Research Team led by Professor Marco Tamburelli aims to better understand the relationship between speaker attitudes (from the explicit to the implicit) and language use across different European speech communities using a range of approaches, including sosiolinguistic, psycholinguistic and neuro-linguistic methods. More generally, I am interested in the implications of language attitudes research on language revitalization and language policy and planning.
Accent Perception
My interest in accent perception bridges my interests in attitudes and dialectal varieties. Specifically, in a project led by Dr Jonathan Morris and Dr Robert Mayr we look at how Welsh home language speakers perceive accents from varying language learning background both in terms of if and how they are able to identify these speakers and how they perceive them socially.
Biography
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Research themes
Specialisms
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociophonetics
- Language Attitudes
- Accent Perception
- Language Revitalization