Stephen Lucek

I am an Assistant Professor in Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. My research focuses on linguistic competencies and resources of language users in Ireland. This extends to multilingualism, register variation, and polydialectalism. In much simpler terms, I am interested in how users access language in all its forms.

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Outreach

• 13 March 2025 - The Hard Shoulder, Newstalk: (opens in a new window)How has AI changed grading in schools?
• 9 December 2024 - Ireland AM, Virgin Media Television: Oxford’s Word of the Year is Gen Z Slang 

• 15 November 2025 - Newstalk Breakfast: (opens in a new window)Reducing your texts to a flurry of abbreviations is it 'K'?
• 5 August 2024 - Newstalk Interview: (opens in a new window)'They hang up unless you sound Irish.' Is accent prejudice normalised?
• 22 February 2024 - Newstalk Interview: (opens in a new window)'They automatically think you're scum.' Accent discrimination
• 18 January 2024 - Newstalk Interview: (opens in a new window)How do you pronounce scone?
• 12 December 2023 - Newstalk Interview: (opens in a new window)Does your accent affect your path in life?
• 6 November 2023 -  Ireland AM, Virgin Media Television: Accentism
• 2 November 2023 - The Hard Shoulder, Newstalk: Collins Dictionary Word of the year
• 13 September 2023 - Newstalk Interview: (opens in a new window)'Language is always changing' - Young people opting for less formal language
• 25 July 2023 - Newstalk Interview: (opens in a new window)Can the way you talk affect your future? 'A right and a wrong accent'
• 28 February 2023 - Ireland AM, Virgin Media Television: Are children speaking with American accents?
• 23 May 2019 - Free Thought FM: (opens in a new window)Dr Stephen Lucek in conversation with Michelle Kinsella

Online articles

• 3 February 2024 - Newstalk article: It happens slowly: (opens in a new window)Are Irish children actually developing American accents
• 6 October 2022 - RTE Brainstorm article: (opens in a new window)Why are Irish accents always so bad on screen?
• 18 May 2020 - RTE Brainstorm article: (opens in a new window)Call the tone police: powerful women and linguistic prejudice