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  1. Pragmatics of second person address variation in New Zealand Sign Language

    Article • Lingua, October 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  2. Māori–English contact in New Zealand: Verbal hygiene practices and evaluative outcomes

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  3. “Two hands are powerful”. Handedness variation and genre in New Zealand Sign Language

    Article • Language & Communication, January 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  4. Remembering William Labov

    Article • Asia-Pacific Language Variation, December 2024, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  5. Continuity and change: A review of The United States of English - Rosemarie Ostler, The United States of English – The American Language from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 233+append...

    Article • English Today, November 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  6. Navigating epistemic challenges: Self-initiated self-repair in weight loss discussions within clinical settings

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  7. Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist

    Article • Language Sciences, September 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  8. Focussing and Levelling in the Auckland Voices Project

    Article • Roczniki Humanistyczne, July 2023, Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  9. Humour and the stretchy temporality of peer conflict in a group early childhood setting: An analysis of relational power

    Article • Journal of Early Childhood Research, April 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  10. ‘I'm a big boy, you're a baby’: Negotiating labels, group boundaries and identities in an early childhood community of practice

    Article • March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  11. Complementation and the creole continuum in the Eastern Caribbean

    Article • World Englishes, November 2022, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  12. Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor

    Article • Annual Review of Anthropology, October 2022, Annual Reviews

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  13. Do different linguistic features pattern together?

    Article • March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  14. Baby steps in decolonising linguistics

    Article • February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  15. ‘I’m a big boy, you’re a baby’. Negotiating labels, group boundaries and identities in an early childhood community of practice

    Article • International Journal of Early Years Education, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  16. Sound and grammar features in three communities in Auckland, NZ.

    Article • August 2021, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  17. CHAPTER 17 The Auckland Voices Project: Language Change in a Changing City

    Article • August 2021, De Gruyter

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  18. How best to assess similarity and difference between closely related varieties?

    Article • July 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  19. Special issue Variation in the Pacific

    Article • Asia-Pacific Language Variation, June 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  20. Variation in the Pacific

    Article • Asia-Pacific Language Variation, June 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  21. The narcissism of small differences: Sociolinguistic points of comparison in Auckland

    Article • March 2021, Cassyni

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  22. Styles, standards and meaning

    Article • Language Ecology, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff, Dr Uri Horesh

  23. Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages

    Article • Language Ecology, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff, Dr Uri Horesh

  24. Introduction

    Article • Asia-Pacific Language Variation, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  25. Special issue Variation in the Pacific

    Article • Asia-Pacific Language Variation, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  26. Variation in the Pacific

    Article • Asia-Pacific Language Variation, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  27. New voices and perspectives on pidgins and creoles

    Article • November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  28. The voice of Polan[t]

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, October 2020, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  29. A trajectory of belonging: negotiating conflict and identity in an early childhood centre

    Article • Early Years Journal of International Research and Development, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  30. Negotiating wellbeing and belonging in an early childhood centre: What children’s conflicts can teach us

    Article • May 2020, NZCER Press, New Zealand Council for Educational Research

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  31. Pivots of the Caribbean? Low-back vowels in eastern Caribbean English

    Article • Linguistics, February 2020, De Gruyter

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  32. Gender inequity in medicine and medical leadership

    Article • The Medical Journal of Australia, November 2019, Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Pty Ltd. (AMPCo)

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  33. 21. Gender and language contact: how gender is/isn’t marked in language contact

    Article • August 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  34. Order in the creole speech community

    Article • Language Ecology, June 2019, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  35. Language Contact

    Article • May 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  36. Language variation and language documentation can be studied together.

    Article • Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  37. In pursuit of social meaning

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, March 2019, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  38. Looking back and looking ahead

    Article • February 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  39. Language, Gender, and Sexuality

    Article • Annual Review of Linguistics, January 2019, Annual Reviews

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  40. A case-study in historical sociolinguistics beyond Europe: Reconstructing patterns of multilingualism in a linguistic community in Siberia

    Article • Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, October 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  41. Multilingualism and language choice

    Article • August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  42. Real time and apparent time

    Article • August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  43. Social networks and communities of practice

    Article • August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  44. Introducing Sociolinguistics

    Article • August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  45. A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables

    Article • July 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  46. Writing a linguistic symphony: Analyzing variation while doing language documentation

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, June 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  47. Language Attitudes

    Article • February 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  48. Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Sociolinguistics: Theoretical debates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 458. Pb. £21.99, $39.99.

    Article • Language in Society, February 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  49. Methods, innovations and extensions: Reflections on half a century of methodology in social dialectology

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, September 2016, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  50. Extending ELAN into variationist sociolinguistics

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, October 2015, De Gruyter

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  51. Doing Sociolinguistics

    Article • June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  52. Turning variation on its head

    Article • Asia-Pacific Language Variation, May 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  53. Globalising Sociolinguistics

    Article • May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  54. Bequia English

    Article • April 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  55. Subject and object pronoun use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines)

    Article • January 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  56. An end of egalitarianism? Social evaluations of language difference in New Zealand

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, December 2014, De Gruyter

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  57. Gender performativity

    Article • November 2014, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  58. Significant or random?

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, April 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  59. Introduction

    Article • March 2014, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  60. The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality

    Article • March 2014, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  61. Variation and Gender

    Article • March 2014, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  62. Sociolinguistics in Scotland

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  63. Hitting an Edinburgh Target: Immigrant Adolescents’ Acquisition of Variation in Edinburgh English

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  64. An existential problem: The sociolinguistic monitor and variation in existential constructions on Bequia (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

    Article • Language in Society, August 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  65. Syntactic variation and change

    Article • February 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  66. Studies of the Community and the Individual

    Article • January 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  67. Grammatical variation in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines)

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, August 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  68. Language Contact: New Perspectives edited by Muriel Norde, Bob de Jonge and Cornelius Hasselblatt

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  69. Variation, contact and social indexicality in the acquisition of (ing) by teenage migrants1

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  70. Uncovering hidden constraints in micro-corpora of contact Englishes

    Article • January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  71. Sociolinguistic Fieldwork

    Article • November 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  72. Teenagers’ acquisition of variation

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, July 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  73. Replication, transfer, and calquing: Using variation as a tool in the study of language contact

    Article • Language Variation and Change, October 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  74. Review of Kortmann & Upton (2008): Varieties of English. 1, The British Isles

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, August 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  75. 16. Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate feature

    Article • April 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  76. Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability

    Article • November 2008, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  77. Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities

    Article • September 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  78. Introduction: Social lives in language

    Article • September 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  79. Empirical problems with domain-based notions of "simple"

    Article • September 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  80. Language Varieties

    Article • June 2008, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  81. Bequia sweet/ Bequia is sweet: syntactic variation in a lesser-known variety of Caribbean English

    Article • English Today, February 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  82. The persistence of variation in individual grammars: Copula absence in ‘urban sojourners’ and their stay‐at‐home peers, Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines)1

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, June 2007, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  83. Forty years of language change on Martha's Vineyard

    Article • Language, January 2007, Project Muse

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  84. EDITOR'S NOTE

    Article • Language in Society, October 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  85. ZERO COPULA IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN: EVIDENCE FROM BEQUIA

    Article • American Speech, May 2006, Duke University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  86. Linguistic change, sociohistorical context, and theory-building in variationist linguistics: new-dialect formation in New Zealand

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, May 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  87. Holmes, Janet (b.1947)

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  88. Prestige, Overt and Covert

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  89. Syntactic Variation

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  90. Review of Crowley (2002): Serial verbs in Oceanic: A descriptive typology

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, November 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  91. Biographies, agency and power1

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, November 2005, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  92. Bislama reference grammar (review)

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, June 2005, Project Muse

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  93. Gender and the Language of Religion

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  94. Doing and Saying: Some Words on Womens Silence

    Article • July 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  95. Growing up with Tok Pisin: Contact, Creolization, and Change in Papua New Guinea's National Language

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, December 2003, JSTOR

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  96. The globalisation of vernacular variation

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  97. ‘But is it linguistics?’: Breaking down boundaries

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, February 2003, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  98. Claiming a Place: Gender, Knowledge, and Authority as Emergent Properties

    Article • January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  99. Different Voices, Different Views: An Introduction to Current Research in Language and Gender

    Article • January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  100. The Handbook of Language and Gender

    Article • January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  101. Book Reviews

    Article • Journal of Language and Social Psychology, December 2002, SAGE Publications

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  102. Formal and cultural constraints on optional objects in Bislama

    Article • Language Variation and Change, October 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  103. 15. All the same?

    Article • September 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  104. A Vanishing Act: Tonkinese Migrant Labour in Vanuatu in the Early 20th Century

    Article • The Journal of Pacific History, June 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  105. Another Look at the Topology of Serial Verb Constructions: The Grammaticalization of Temporal Relations in Bislama (Vanuatu)

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, December 2001, Project Muse

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  106. Hans Goebl, Peter H. Nelde, Zdeněk Starý, Wolfgang Wölck (eds.), 1997, Kontaktlinguistik/Contact Linguistics/Linguistique de contact: Ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung/An international handbook of contemporary research/Manuel i...

    Article • International Journal of Applied Linguistics, December 2000, Wiley

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  107. The emergence of creole subject–verb agreement and the licensing of null subjects

    Article • Language Variation and Change, July 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  108. Determination of the neutron electric form factor from the reaction 3 He(e,e'n) at medium momentum transfer

    Article • The European Physical Journal A, November 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  109. Sorry in the Pacific: Defining communities, defining practices

    Article • Language in Society, April 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  110. The Community of Practice: Theories and methodologies in language and gender research

    Article • Language in Society, April 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  111. Communities of Practice

    Article • July 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  112. Accommodating your data: the use and misuse of accommodation theory in sociolinguistics

    Article • Language & Communication, July 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  113. Shape-Selective Retention of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Metalloprotoporphyrin−Silica Phases:  Effect of Metal Ion Center and Porphyrin Coverage

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, May 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  114. Transitive marking in contact Englishes∗

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, March 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  115. First measurement of the polarisation transfer on the proton in the reactions $$H(\vec e,e'\vec p)$$ and $$D(\vec e,e'\vec p)$$

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and Nuclei, June 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  116. Resistance to creolization: An interpersonal and intergroup account

    Article • Language & Communication, October 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  117. Study of mechanical compression of spin-polarized 3He gas

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, July 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  118. Sounds pretty ethnic, eh?: A pragmatic particle in New Zealand English

    Article • Language in Society, June 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  119. First measurement of the electric formfactor of the neutron in the exclusive quasielastic scattering of polarized electrons from polarized 3He

    Article • Physics Letters B, May 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  120. Talking power: The politics of language

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  121. Lexical Shift in Working Class New Zealnd English

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, January 1993, John Benjamins

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  122. A dense polarized 3He target based on compression of optically pumped gas

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, August 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  123. Frequency stabilization of LNA laser to the helium absorption lines

    Article • Review of Scientific Instruments, October 1990, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  124. Electrode-based enzyme immunoassays using urease conjugates

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, June 1979, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  125. Enzyme electrode-based kinetic assays of enzyme activities

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, June 1979, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  126. Membrane electrode measurement of lysozyme enzyme using living bacterial cells

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, September 1978, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  127. Glutamine-Selective Membrane Electrode That Uses Living Bacterial Cells

    Article • Science, January 1978, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  128. Antibody Binding Measurements with Hapten-Selective Membrane Electrodes

    Article • Science, February 1977, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  129. An activated enzyme electrode for creatinine

    Article • Analytica Chimica Acta, September 1976, Elsevier

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  130. Hitting an Edinburgh Target

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

  131. Social class

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff