April McMahon

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April McMahon is affiliated with the following schools: University of Edinburgh, University of Kent

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According to Wikipedia, April Mary Scott McMahon is a British academic administrator and linguist, who is Vice President for Teaching, Learning and Students at the University of Manchester. Having taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield, she moved into academic administration while teaching at the University of Edinburgh. She was vice-chancellor of the Aberystwyth University , then a member of the senior leadership team at the University of Kent before joining the University of Manchester.

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April McMahon's Published Works

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Understanding language change (1994) (347)
Language classification by numbers (2005) (212)
An introduction to English phonology (2001) (188)
The Handbook of English Linguistics (2008) (179)
Time depth in historical linguistics (2004) (100)
Change, chance, and optimality (2000) (98)
Finding Families: Quantitative Methods in Language Classification (2003) (83)
Splits or waves? Trees or webs? How divergence measures and network analysis can unravel language histories (2010) (82)
The comparative methods (2012) (69)
Swadesh sublists and the benefits of borrowing: An Andean case study (2005) (64)
English phonology and morphology (2008) (59)
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (2005) (53)
The sound patterns of Englishes: representing phonetic similarity (2007) (51)
Gestural representation and Lexical Phonology (1994) (50)
Lexical phonology and sound change: the case of the Scottish vowel length rule (1991) (46)
Linguistic Areas: Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective (2006) (41)
Lexical Phonology and the History of English: Frontmatter (2000) (28)
LINGUISTICS, GENETICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL EVIDENCE IN THE AMERIND CONTROVERSY* (1995) (26)
Why linguists don’t do dates (2006) (25)
The past, present, and future of English dialects: Quantifying convergence, divergence, and dynamic equilibrium (2010) (23)
Lexical phonology and the history of English (2000) (22)
Vowel shift, free rides and strict cyclicity (1990) (21)
From phonetic similarity to dialect classification: A principled approach (2005) (16)
Prosodic change and language contact (2004) (16)
Understanding language change: Pidgins and Creoles (1994) (16)
Quantifying change over time in phonetics (2000) (16)
Who’s afraid of the vowel shift rule? (2007) (15)
The Emergence of the optimal? Optimality Theory and sound change (2000) (13)
Lexical Phonology and the Lexical Syndrome (2011) (12)
On the use of the past to explain the present: the history of /r/ in English and Scots (1996) (10)
Phonology and the Holy Grail (2003) (10)
Motives for Language Change: On not explaining language change: Optimality Theory and the Great Vowel Shift (2003) (9)
Genetics, Historical Linguistics and Language Variation (2008) (7)
Understanding language change: Frontmatter (1994) (7)
Keeping Contact in the Family: Approaches to Language Classification and Contact-induced Change (2006) (7)
Sound Change, Phonological Rules, and Articulatory Phonology (1994) (7)
UNDERSPECIFICATION THEORY AND THE ANALYSIS OF DIALECT DIFFERENCES IN LEXICAL PHONOLOGY (1992) (7)
Analysing Variation in English: Index (2011) (6)
Sounds, brain, and evolution: or, why phonology is plural (2007) (6)
Analysing Variation in English: Quantifying relations between dialects (2011) (6)
Accents of English from Around the World (2008) (5)
When History Doesn’t Repeat Itself (2003) (5)
Constraining lexical phonology : evidence from English vowels. (1989) (5)
Quantitative historical dialectology (2011) (4)
Computational Models and Language Contact (2010) (4)
Topics in the lexical phonology of english (1993) (4)
Evolutionary Linguistics by April McMahon (2012) (4)
Change for the Better? Optimality Theory versus History (2008) (4)
Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh’s influence lives on here too (2010) (4)
Research Methods in Language Variation and Change: Computing linguistic distances between varieties (2013) (3)
Understanding language change: Language death (1994) (3)
Language matters 1: Linguistics (2011) (2)
Historical Linguistics: Overview (2001) (2)
Lexical phonology and diachrony (1992) (2)
Evolutionary Linguistics: From protolanguage to language (2012) (1)
Learnability in Optimality Theory (Book) (2002) (1)
Language families and quantitative methods in South Asia and elsewhere (2007) (1)
Genetics and Language (2006) (1)
America Past, America Present: Genes and Languages in toe Americas and Beyond (2002) (1)
Understanding language change: Semantic and lexical change (1994) (1)
Perspectives on Weakness from English /r/ (2009) (1)
LANGUAGE, TIME AND HUMAN HISTORIES (2004) (1)
Issues in the genetic classification of contact languages (2013) (1)
Subject and Key Names Index (2006) (0)
Phonological Change: Lexical Phonology (2006) (0)
The public value of the humanities (2011) (0)
Understanding language change: Bibliography (1994) (0)
Evolutionary Linguistics: Big bang or cumulative creep? Saltation versus gradual, adaptive evolution (2012) (0)
Lexical Phonology and the History of English: The rôle of history (2000) (0)
Understanding language change: Preface and acknowledgements (1994) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks (2012) (0)
A Concise companion to modernism (2008) (0)
Bruce Tesar & Paul Smolensky, Learnability in Optimality Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. vii+140. (2002) (0)
Understanding language change: Introduction (1994) (0)
Understanding language change: Morphological change (1994) (0)
Understanding language change: Language contact (1994) (0)
Lexical Phonology and the History of English: Constraining the model: current controversies in Lexical Phonology (2000) (0)
Evolutionary Linguistics: Who, where and when? (2012) (0)
Family trees and favourite daughters (1999) (0)
Lexical Phonology and the History of English: Applying the constraints: the Modern English Vowel Shift Rule (2000) (0)
Chapter 7. Language: “History is a Nightmare From Which I am Trying to Awake” (2008) (0)
Understanding language change: Sound change 2: the implementation problem (1994) (0)
Evolutionary Linguistics: Language and the brain (2012) (0)
Michael Hammond (1999). The phonology of English: a prosodic optimality-theoretic approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xvi+368. (2001) (0)
Evolutionary Linguistics: Evidence for evolution (2012) (0)
John T. Jensen (1993). English phonology. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 99 .) Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. x + 251. (1996) (0)
Language and genes (2012) (0)
Lexical Phonology and the History of English: Synchrony, diachrony and Lexical Phonology: the Scottish Vowel Length Rule (2000) (0)
Computational models of language contact (2012) (0)
Understanding language change: Word order change and grammaticalisation: language change and general laws (1994) (0)
Lexicostatistics and Glottochronology (2012) (0)
Lexical Phonology and the History of English: Bibliography (2000) (0)
Lexical Phonology and the History of English: Dialect differentiation in Lexical Phonology: the unwelcome effects of underspecification (2000) (0)
To Germanic and Beyond: phonetic comparison of accents and languages (2010) (0)
Charles Jones (ed.), The Edinburgh history of the Scots language . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 690. £150, ISBN 0 7486 0754 4. (1998) (0)
Lexical Phonology and the History of English: English /r/ (2000) (0)
Understanding language change: Syntactic change 1: the Transparency Principle (1994) (0)
Evolutionary Linguistics: The vocal tract (2012) (0)
Evolutionary Linguistics: Evolution and history (2012) (0)
LEXICAL PHONOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH APRIL McMAHON (1999) (0)
Understanding language change: Three views of sound change (1994) (0)
Evolutionary Linguistics: Bibliography (2012) (0)
Understanding language change: Linguistic evolution? (1994) (0)
Charles Jones (ed.), Historical linguistics: problems and perspectives . London: Longman, 1993. Pp. xi+405. (1993) (0)
Analysing Variation in English: Introduction. Analysing variation in English: what we know, what we don't, and why it matters (2011) (0)

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