All Stories

  1. Hands off the metadata!: Comparing the use of explicit and background metadata in crowdsourced dialectology

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, January 2021, De Gruyter

    Tam Blaxter, Professor David Britain

  2. Paris: a sociolinguistic comparative perspective

    Article • Journal of French Language Studies, July 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Britain

  3. One man is an island: the speech community William Marsters begat on Palmerston Island. By Rachel Hendery

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, May 2018, John Benjamins

    Professor David Britain

  4. Beyond the “gentry aesthetic”: elites, Received Pronunciation and the dialectological gaze

    Article • Social Semiotics, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Britain

  5. Language, mobility and scale in South and Central Asia: a commentary

    Article • International Journal of the Sociology of Language, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Professor David Britain

  6. Koineization and cake baking: Reflections on methods in dialect contact research

    Article • August 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor David Britain

  7. One foot in the grave? Dialect death, dialect contact, and dialect birth in England

    Article • International Journal of the Sociology of Language, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Professor David Britain

  8. When is a change not a change? A case study on the dialect origins of New Zealand English

    Article • Language Variation and Change, July 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Britain

  9. Daniel Schreier. 2005. Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, October 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor David Britain

  10. Innovation diffusion: ‘‘Estuary English’’ and local dialect differentiation: the survival of Fenland Englishes

    Article • Linguistics, January 2005, De Gruyter

    Professor David Britain

  11. Social Dialectology

    Article • August 2003, John Benjamins

    Professor David Britain, Professor Jenny Cheshire

  12. Review of Foulkes & Docherty (1999): Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, June 2001, John Benjamins

    Professor David Britain

  13. Where did it all start?: dialect contact, the 'founder principle' and the so-called -OWN> split in New Zealand English

    Article • Transactions of the Philological Society, May 2001, Wiley

    Professor David Britain

  14. Migration, new-dialect formation and sociolinguistic refunctionalisation:reallocationas an outcome of dialect contact

    Article • Transactions of the Philological Society, November 1999, Wiley

    Professor David Britain

  15. Dialect contact and phonological reallocation: “Canadian Raising” in the English Fens

    Article • Language in Society, March 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Britain

  16. The role of mundane mobility and contact in dialect death and dialect birth

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Britain

  17. Countering the urbanist agenda in variationist sociolinguistics: dialect contact, demographic change and the rural-urban dichotomy

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor David Britain