Paul Kerswill
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- Bachelors English Language and Literature University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul Kerswill, FBA, is a sociolinguist. Since 2012, he has been professor in the department of language and linguistic science at the University of York. After completing his undergraduate degree and doctorate at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was a research assistant from 1985 to 1986 at the University of Cambridge, before working as a lecturer at the University of Reading until his appointment in 2004 as a professor at Lancaster University.
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- Creating a New Town koine: Children and language change in Milton Keynes (2000) (446)
- Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English (2011) (375)
- Children, adolescents, and language change (1996) (306)
- Dialect levelling: change and continuity in Milton Keynes, Reading and Hull. (1999) (208)
- Koineization and accommodation. (2002) (207)
- Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English (2003) (203)
- 'Salience' as an explanatory factor in language change : evidence from dialect levelling in urban England. (2000) (170)
- New towns and koineization: linguistic and social correlates (2005) (133)
- Internal and external motivation in phonetic change: dialect levelling outcomes for an English vowel shift. (2004) (113)
- The study of dialect convergence and divergence: conceptual and methodological considerations (2005) (111)
- Ethnicity, friendship network and social practices as the motor of dialect change: Linguistic innovation in London (2008) (105)
- Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages (2008) (102)
- Reversing “drift”: Innovation and diffusion in the London diphthong system (2008) (85)
- The birth of new dialects. (2005) (78)
- The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics (2010) (73)
- Dialect recognition and speech community focusing in new and old towns in England : the effects of dialect levelling, demography and social networks. (2002) (62)
- Models of linguistic change and diffusion: new evidence from dialect levelling in British English * (2002) (59)
- Dialects Converging: Rural Speech in Urban Norway (1994) (55)
- The validity of phonetic transcription: Limitations of a sociolinguistic research tool (1990) (54)
- Phonology, grammar, and discourse in dialect convergence. (2005) (52)
- Migration and language. (2006) (48)
- Mobility, meritocracy and dialect levelling: the fading (and phasing) out of Received Pronunciation (2001) (46)
- English Language: Description, Variation and Context (2009) (45)
- Levels of linguistic variation in Durham (1987) (44)
- Rural dialect speakers in an urban speech community: the role of dialect contact in defining a sociolinguistic concept (1993) (41)
- Contact and New Varieties (2020) (36)
- Ethnicity as a source of changes in the London vowel system (2006) (34)
- Phonological convergence in dialect contact: Evidence from citation forms (1995) (34)
- Electropalatography in the analysis of connected speech processes (1989) (34)
- Contact is not enough: A response to Trudgill (2008) (31)
- Identity, ethnicity and place : the construction of youth language in London (2013) (27)
- Divergence and convergence of sociolinguistic structures in Norway and England (1996) (26)
- Standard and non-standard English (2007) (25)
- The objectification of ‘Jafaican’ : the discoursal embedding of Multicultural London English in the British media (2014) (23)
- Babel in Buckinghamshire? Pre-school children acquiring accent features in the new town of Milton Keynes (1994) (21)
- English as a Contact Language: English as a contact language: the role of children and adolescents (2013) (19)
- A dialect with 'great inner strength'? : the perception of nativeness in the Bergen speech community. (2001) (18)
- Dialect change : The convergence and divergence of dialects in contemporary societies (2005) (17)
- Dialect Levelling, Koineisation and the Speech of the Adult Migrant (1996) (13)
- Language contact and language change in the multicultural metropolis (2013) (12)
- Social and linguistic aspects of Durham (eː) (1984) (12)
- A sociolinguistic study of rural immigrants in Bergen, Norway (1985) (10)
- On the limits of auditory transcription: a sociophonetic perspective (1989) (10)
- Sociolinguistic approaches to language change : phonology. (2010) (9)
- On the non-convergence of phonology, grammar and discourse. (2005) (9)
- The description and acquisition of variable phonological patterns: phonology and sociolinguistics (2007) (8)
- New-dialect formation: The inevitability of colonial Englishes (review) (2007) (6)
- 1. Dialect formation and dialect change in the Industrial Revolution: British vernacular English in the nineteenth century (2018) (6)
- The First SuRE Moves: Early Steps Towards a Large Dialect Project (1999) (5)
- On the Limits of Auditory Transcription: A Sociophonetic Approach. (1989) (5)
- Standard English, RP and the standard-non-standard relationship (2006) (5)
- Studying the English language. (2009) (3)
- A Dialect with ‘Great Inner Strength’? (2002) (3)
- Social dialectology/Sozialdialektologie. (2004) (3)
- Dialect Change: Microsociolinguistic Motivations (2005) (3)
- London’s Cockney in the twentieth century: stability or cycles of contact-driven change? (2016) (2)
- Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland: Det norske dialektlandskapet. (2016) (2)
- Dialect Change: Map (2005) (2)
- Standard English and standardization. (2009) (1)
- This is a repository copy of Ethnicity, friendship network and social practices as the motor of dialect change : linguistic innovation in London. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/75066/ (2018) (1)
- Linguistics in the UK and Germany: Differing approaches to a discipline at the sciences/humanities interface. (2000) (1)
- Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change (2022) (1)
- Language variation 1 - social factors : class and ethnicity (2012) (1)
- Language and social class. (2009) (1)
- Dialect Change: References (2005) (1)
- This is London speaking (2005) (0)
- Dialect Change: Preface (2005) (0)
- Book Reviews (1992) (0)
- S. M. Bortoni-Ricardo, The urbanization of rural dialect speakers. A sociolinguistic study in Brazil . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x + 265. (1987) (0)
- Digital Devices in Sociolinguistic Fieldworks (2003) (0)
- [in Norwegian] Modeller for språkendring og spredning. Nye funn fra dialektutjamning i britisk-engelsk [Models of linguistic change and diffusion. New findings from dialect levelling in British English]. (2003) (0)
- Introduction (2021) (0)
- “Ethnicity, conflict and language choice: the sociolinguistics of development communication in Ghana’s Northern Region” (2018) (0)
- Ethnicity, conflict and language choice (2019) (0)
- Tracing the Origins of an Urban Youth Vernacular (2020) (0)
- Dialect Change: List of figures (2005) (0)
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