All Stories

  1. Adjective Intensification as a Means of Characterization

    Article • Journal of English Linguistics, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  2. An Overview of Sociolinguistics in Wales

    Article • January 2016, Nature

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  3. Changing Attitudes Towards the Welsh English Accent: A View from Twitter

    Article • January 2016, Nature

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  4. Sociolinguistics in Wales

    Article • January 2016, Nature

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  5. Grammaticalization at an early stage: futurebe going toin conservative British dialects

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, February 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sali Anna Tagliamonte, Dr Mercedes Durham

  6. Thirty Years Later: Real-Time Change and Stability in Attitudes towards the Dialect in Shetland

    Article • January 2014, Nature

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  7. Was/were alternation in Shetland English

    Article • World Englishes, February 2013, Wiley

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  8. The social and linguistic in the acquisition of sociolinguistic norms: Caregivers, children, and variation

    Article • Linguistics, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  9. Paul Baker, Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. ix, 189. Pb. $24.50.

    Article • Language in Society, January 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  10. Right dislocation in Northern England

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

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  11. I think (that) something’s missing: Complementizer deletion in nonnative e-mails

    Article • Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, October 2011, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  12. A tipping point in dialect obsolescence? Change across the generations in Lerwick, Shetland1

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, April 2011, Wiley

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  13. Universal and dialect-specific pathways of acquisition: Caregivers, children, and t/d deletion

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

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  14. Language Choice on a Swiss Mailing List

    Article • June 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  15. “Mam, my trousers is fa'in doon!”: Community, caregiver, and child in the acquisition of variation in a Scottish dialect

    Article • Language Variation and Change, January 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  16. Language Choice on a Swiss Mailing List

    Article • Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, June 2006, Wiley

    Dr Mercedes Durham

  17. Thirty Years Later

    Article • Nature

    Dr Mercedes Durham