Forthcoming:
Grammatical variation in England. In Susan Fox (ed.), Language in the British Isles (fully revised 3rd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch] (eds.), Micronesian Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[with Hannah Hedegard and Andrea Sudbury] Falkland Island English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto]. English in the Republic of Palau. In David Britain, Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch (eds.), Micronesian Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch]. English in Micronesia: an Introduction. In David Britain, Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch] (eds.), Micronesian Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
English in Micronesia before the 20th Century. In David Britain, Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch (eds.), Micronesian Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch] Micronesian English or Micronesian Englishes? In David Britain, Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch (eds.), Micronesian Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[with Robert Potter]. English in East Anglia. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 4: Varieties of English in Britain, Ireland and Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[with Hannah Hedegard and Andrea Sudbury] English in the Falkland Islands. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 6: English in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] English in Micronesia. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 6: English in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[with Unn Røyneland] (eds.) Dialect in Social Media. Special issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
[with Unn Røyneland] Dialect use in social media across Europe. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
Teach yourself dialect!: analysing YouTube tours of British English accents. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto and Aya Inoue] Pidgins, creoles, mixed languages and koines. In Kazuko Matsumoto, Heiko Narrog, John Maher and Mie Hiramoto (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Japanese Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
In Press
How urban is all this?: Perspectives on multiethnolects in monolingual societies. In Paul Kerswill and Heike Wiese (eds.), Urban contact dialects and language change: Insights from the global North and South. London: Routledge.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto and Praparat Prompapakorn] Rural koineisation: three cases studies from Palau, Thailand and England. In Chr. Tzitzilis & G. Papanastassiou (eds.) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Koine, koines and the formation of Standard Modern Greek. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
[with Tamsin Blaxter and Adrian Leemann] English Dialects App. In Christopher Montgomery and Emma Moore (eds.), Oxford Handbook of British Englishes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[with Adrian Leemann] Regional dialects in England. In Kingsley Bolton and Daniel Davis (eds.), Encyclopaedia of World Englishes. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
‘Urban’ and ‘rural’ in dialectology. In Beatrix Busse and Ingo Warnke (eds.), Sprache im urbanen Raum. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
2022
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] (eds.). Diaspora Japanese. Special Issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Volume 273.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] The vernacularity of Palauan Japanese International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 273: 103-144.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Diaspora Japanese: Transnational mobility and language contact. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 273: 1-29
2021
[with Sarah Grossenbacher] Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants: The case of the front short vowels in Eastern England. In Arne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer (eds.), Urban Matters. Current Approaches in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 89-118.
Grammatical variation in the contemporary spoken English of England. In Andy Kirkpatrick (ed.), The Handbook of World Englishes (fully revised second edition). London: Routledge. 32-58.
[with Tamsin Blaxter and Adrian Leemann]. Dialect levelling in England: evidence from the English Dialects App. In André Thibault, Mathieu Avanzi, Nicolas Lo Vecchio and Alice Millour (eds.), Nouveaux regards sur la variation dialectale/New ways of analysing dialectal variation. Paris: Éditions de Linguistique et de Philologie. 305-334.
[with Lars Bülow, Andrin Büchler, Nicolai Rawyler and Christa Schneider] Factors of variation in spoken Swiss Standard German. In Lars Bülow, Alexander Werth, Simone Pfenninger and Markus Schiegg (eds.), Intra-individual variation in language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 127-173.
[with Suzanne Britain] Sea shanties, Covid-19, Brexit, New Zealand, East Anglia and rhoticity: a Morrisseyian analysis. In S. Fox and N. Nyffenegger (eds.), FAMschrift: a Festschrift for Franz Andres Morrissey. Bern: Department of English, University of Bern.
Grammatical variation in the contemporary spoken English of England. In Andy Kirkpatrick (ed.), The Handbook of World Englishes (fully revised second edition). London: Routledge. 32-58.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Japan and the North-Western Pacific. In U. Ansaldo and M. Meyerhoff (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages. London: Routledge. 106-131.
[with Tamsin Blaxter] Hands off the metadata!: comparing the use of explicit and background metadata in crowdsourced dialectology. Linguistic Vanguard 7: 1-13.
2020
[with Tamsin Blaxter and Adrian Leemann] East Anglian English in the English Dialects App. English Today 143 (36:3) 14-30.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Japan and the North-Western Pacific. In U. Ansaldo and M. Meyerhoff (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages. London: Routledge. 106-131.
[with Sandra Jansen, Justyna Robinson, Lynne Cahill, Adrian Leemann and Tam Blaxter] Sussex by the sea: a descriptive analysis of dialect variation in the south of England based on English Dialect App data. English Today 143 (36:3) 31-39.
What happened to those relatives from East Anglia?: a multilocality analysis of dialect levelling in the relative marker system. In Karen Beaman, Isabelle Buchstaller, Susan Fox and James Walker (eds), Socio-grammatical Variation and Change: In Honour of Jenny Cheshire. New York: Routledge. 93-114.
Denmark: a perhaps unexpected dialect laboratory. In Marie Maegaard, Malene Monka, Kristine Køhler Mortensen, Andreas Candefors Stæhr (eds.), Patterns of language standardization in the periphery: transversal perspectives. 228-237.
[with Keiko Hirano] Accommodation and social networks: Grammatical variation among expatriate English speakers in Japan. In YoshiyukiAsahi (ed.), Proceedings of Methods XVI: Papers from the sixteenth international conference on Methods in Dialectology, 2017. Berlin: Peter Lang. 91-104.
2019
[with Laura Rupp] Linguistic perspectives on a variable English morpheme: let’s talk about –s. London: Palgrave.
A sociolinguistic ecology of colonial Britain. In D. Schreier, E. Schneider and M. Hundt (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 145-159.
[with Christa Schneider and Sarah Grossenbacher] Quotative variation in Bernese Swiss German. In Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Diaz-Montesinos, Antonio-Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro (eds.), Language variation: European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE9), Malaga, June 2017. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 191-202.
[with Juan Manuel Hernández Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas Espinosa] Variação e competência sociolinguísticas no ensino de inglês como língua estrangeira. Revista EntreLínguas 6: 157-175.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Pancakes stuffed with sweet bean paste: food-related lexical borrowings as indicators of the intensity of language contact in the Pacific. In G. Balirano and S Guzzo (eds.), Food across cultures: linguistic insights in transcultural tastes. London: Palgrave. 127-167.
[with P. Strycharczuk, G. Brown and A. Leemann] Investigating FOOT-STRUT in Northern Englishes using crowdsourced data. Proceedings of the ICPhS 2019, 1337-1341.
[With A. Leemann, T. Blaxter and K. Earnshaw] The FACE of Change in English Dialects: 1950 v 20118. Proceedings of ICPhS 2019, 373-377.
[with Crispin Thurlow] Voice work: Learning about and from dialect coaches. In Crispin Thurlow (ed.), The business of words: wordsmiths, linguists and other language workers. London: Routledge.
[with Yvette Bürki] Plus ça change. In Etna Krakenberger, Aline Kunz and Silvia Natale (eds.), Esercizi di fantalinguistica. Pisa: Pacini. 153-156.
2018
Beyond the ‘gentry aesthetic’: elites, Received Pronunciation and the dialectological gaze in England. In Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski (eds.), Elite Discourse: The rhetorics of status, privilege and power. London: Routledge.
[with Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly]. The English Dialects App: The creation of a crowdsourced dialect corpus. Ampersand 5: 1-17.
Dialect contact and new dialect formation. In Dominic Watt, John Nerbonne and Charles Boberg (eds.), Handbook of Dialectology. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. 143-158.
[with Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly] Using impact to make impact? Experiences from a dialect crowdsourcing project. In Dan Macintyre and Hazel Price (eds.), Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda. London: Routledge, 83-98.
Review of “Rachel Hendry (2015). One man is an island: The speech community William Marsters begat on Palmerston Island. London: Battlebridge”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 33: 226-230.
Paris: a sociolinguistic comparative perspective. Journal of French Language Studies 28: 291-300.
2017
Which way to look?: Perspectives on “Urban” and “Rural” in dialectology. In Chris Montgomery and Emma Moore (eds.) A Sense of Place: Studies in Language and Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 171-188.
Language, mobility and scale in South and Central Asia: a commentary. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 247: 127-137.
Beyond the ‘gentry aesthetic’: elites, Received Pronunciation and the dialectological gaze in England. Social Semiotics 27: 288-298.
[with Susan Fox] (2017). Ask a linguist: Why is there a split between 'a' and 'an' in English determiners? Babel 19: 19.
[with Peter Trudgill] Reallocation as an outcome of dialect contact: three examples from East Anglia. In Juan Manuel Hernandez Campoy, Rosa Manchon, Juan Antonio Cutillas Espinosa and Flor Mena (eds.). Festschrift for Prof Rafael Monroy. Murcia: University of Murcia Press.
2016
Sedentarism, nomadism and the sociolinguistics of dialect. In Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 217-241.
[with Allan Bell and Devyani Sharma] (eds.) Labov and Sociolinguistics: Fifty Years of Language in Social Context. Special issue of Journal of Sociolinguistics Volume 20 (4). Oxford: Wiley.
[with Allan Bell and Devyani Sharma] Labov in Sociolinguistics: an introduction. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20: 399-408.
[with Allan Bell, Bonnie McIlhenny, Joseph Park and Devyani Sharma] How to get published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20: 3-5.
[with Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, Harald Clahsen and Andrew Spencer] Introduccion a la linguistica (second edition). Madrid: Ediciones Akal.
[with Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Ross Purves and Elvira Glaser] Crowdsourcing language change with smartphone applications. PlosOne 11 (1): e0143060. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143060
[with Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly]. English Dialects: an English dialect application for the smartphone.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/english-dialects/id882340404?l=de&mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8
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[with Siria Guzzo] (eds.) Languaging Diversity: Volume 2: Sociolinguistics and Identity. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.
[with Siria Guzzo] Languaging Identities: an Introduction. In Siria Guzzo and David Britain (eds.), Languaging Diversity: Volume 2: Sociolinguistics and Identity. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.
[with Keiko Hirano] Accommodation, dialect contact and grammatical variation: Verbs of obligation in the Anglophone community in Japan. In Olga Timofeeva, Anne Gardner and Alpo Honkapohja (eds.), New approaches to English Linguistics: Building Bridges. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 13-33.
2015
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Palauan English. In Jeff Williams, Edgar Schneider, Peter Trudgill and Daniel Schreier (eds.). Further Studies in the Lesser Known Varieties of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 305-343.
[with Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Ross Purves and Elvira Glaser] Documenting sound change with smartphone apps. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 137 (4): 2304.
Between North and South: The Fenland. In Raymond Hickey (ed.). Northern Englishes. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 417-435.
2014
[with Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Iwar Werlen and Dieter Studer-Joho] The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German. Language Variation and Change 26: 191-218.
Where North meets South?: contact, divergence, and the routinisation of the Fenland dialect boundary. In Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas (eds.), Languages, borders and identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 27-43.
2013
Space, diffusion and mobility. In Jack Chambers and Natalie Schilling (eds.), Handbook of Language Variation and Change (second edition). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 471-500.
The role of mundane mobility and contact in dialect death and dialect birth. In D Schreier and M Hundt (eds.), English as a contact language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 165-181.
Geographical dialectology. In Janet Holmes and Kirk Hazen (eds.), Research Methods in Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley. 246-261.
[with Andrea Sudbury] Falkland Island English. In Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.) The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 669-676.
2012
Innovation diffusion in sociohistorical linguistics. In J. M. Hernandez Campoy and J. C. Conde Silvestre (eds.), Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 451-464.
Diffusion. In A Bergs and L Brinton (eds.), English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2031-2043.
Koineization and cake baking: Reflections on methods in dialect contact research. In Andrea Ender, Adrian Leemann and Bernhard Wälchli (eds.), Methods in Contemporary Linguistics. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. 219-238.
Countering the urbanist agenda in variationist sociolinguistics: dialect contact, demographic change and the rural-urban dichotomy. In Hansen, Sandra, Christian Schwarz, Philipp Stoeckle and Tobias Streck (eds.), Dialectological and folk dialectological concepts of space. Berlin: de Gruyter. 12-30.
English in England. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Areal features of the Anglophone World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 23-52.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Palauan English as a newly emerging postcolonial variety in the Pacific. Language, Information, Text 19: 137-167.
[with Annette Kern-Stähler] (eds.). English on the Move: Mobilities in Literature and Language. Tübingen: Narr.
[with Annette Kern-Stähler] Introduction. In Annette Kern-Stähler and David Britain (eds.). English on the Move: Mobilities in Literature and Language. Tübingen: Narr. 11-15.
2011
[with Allan Bell, Monica Heller and Lionel Wee] How to get published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15: 3-5.
The heterogeneous homogenisation of dialects in England. Taal en tongval 63: 43-60.
2010
Conceptualisations of geographic space in linguistics. In Alfred Lameli, Roland Kehrein and Stefan Rabanus (eds.), Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation. Volume 2: Language Mapping. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 69-97.
Dialectology. In K Malmkjaer (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Linguistics. London: Routledge. 127-133.
[with Andrea Sudbury] South Atlantic Ocean: Falkland Island English. In Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill, Edgar Schneider and Jeffrey Williams (eds). Lesser Known Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 209-223.
Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling. In C Llamas and D Watt (eds.) Language and identities. Edinburgh University Press. 193-204.
Contact and dialectology. In R Hickey (ed.). Handbook of Language Contact. Oxford: Blackwell. 208-229.
Grammatical variation in the contemporary spoken English of England. In Andy Kirkpatrick (ed.), The Handbook of World Englishes. London: Routledge. 37-58.
Dialect contact, focusing and phonological rule complexity: the koineisation of Fenland English. In Miriam Meyerhoff and Erik Schleef (eds.), The Sociolinguistics Reader. London: Routledge. 231-247.
Foreword. In Barry Heselwood and Clive Upton (eds.), Methods in Dialectology: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. xi.
2009
[with Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, Harald Clahsen and Andrew Spencer] Linguistics: An Introduction. (Revised Second Edition) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Language and space: the variationist approach. In P. Auer and J. Schmidt (eds.), Language and space: an international handbook of linguistic variation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 142-162.
[with Susan Fox] The Regularisation of the Hiatus Resolution System in British English: A Contact-Induced ‘Vernacular Universal’? In Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Heli Paulasto (eds.) Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond. London: Routledge. 177-205.
[with Reinhild Vandekerckhove and Willy Jongenburger] (eds.). Dialect Death in Europe? Special double issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Volume 196-197.
One foot in the grave?: Dialect death, dialect contact and dialect birth in England. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 196/197: 121-155.
[with Reinhild Vandekerckhove] Dialects in western Europe: a balanced picture of language death, innovation and change. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 196/197: 1-6.
‘Big bright lights’ versus ‘green and pleasant land’? The unhelpful dichotomy of ‘urban’ v ‘rural’ in dialectology. In E Al-Wer and R de Jong (eds.) Arabic dialectology. Leiden: Brill. 223-248.
2008
When is a change not a change?: a case study on the dialect origins of New Zealand English. Language Variation and Change 20: 187-223.
[with Sue Fox] “Vernacular universals” and the regularisation of the hiatus resolution system in British English. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 57 (3): 1-42.
Innovation diffusion, ‘Estuary English’ and local dialect differentiation:
the survival of Fenland Englishes. In Nikolaus Coupland and Adam Jaworski (eds.), Sociolinguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics: Volume 1. London: Routledge. 192-217.
2007
(Ed.) Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Introduction. In D Britain (ed.) Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-6.
Grammatical variation in England. In D Britain (ed.) Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 75-104.
[with Wyn Johnson] L-vocalisation as a Natural Phenomenon: Explorations in Sociophonology. Language Sciences 29: 294-315.
[with Claudia Felser] Deconstructing what with absolutes. In A Radford (ed.) Martin Atkinson – the Minimalist Muse: Special issue of Essex Research Reports in Linguistics. 53: 97-134.
Review of “Edgar Schneider, Kate Burridge, Bernd Kortmann, Rajend Mesthrie and Clive Upton (eds.) (2004). A Handbook of Varieties of English: Volume 1: Phonology; Volume 2: Morphosyntax; CD-ROM. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter”. Journal of Linguistics 43 (3): 742-746.
Review of “Daniel Schreier (2005). Consonant change in English Worldwide. Basingstoke: Palgrave”. English World-Wide 28 (3): 332-339.
2006
Language/Dialect Contact. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition): Volume 6. Oxford: Elsevier. 651-656.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Palau: Language Situation. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition): Volume 9. Oxford: Elsevier. 129-130.
2005
Innovation diffusion, ‘Estuary English’ and local dialect differentiation: the survival of Fenland Englishes. Linguistics 43 (5): 995-1022.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Language, Communities, Networks and Practices. In Martin Ball (ed.) Clinical Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 3-14.
[with Peter Trudgill] New dialect formation and contact-induced reallocation: three case studies from the Fens. International Journal of English Studies 5 (1): 183-209.
Where did New Zealand English come from? In Allan Bell, Ray Harlow and Donna Starks (eds.) The Languages of New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press. 156-193.
The dying dialects of England? In Antonio Bertacca (ed.), Historical linguistic studies of spoken English. Pisa: Edizioni Plus. 35-46.
2004
Geolinguistics – Diffusion of Language. In Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus Mattheier and Peter Trudgill (eds.) Sociolinguistics: International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. 34-48.
Dialect and Accent. In Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus Mattheier and Peter Trudgill (eds.) Sociolinguistics: International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. 267-273.
2003
(ed.) [with Jenny Cheshire] Social Dialectology: in honour of Peter Trudgill. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
[with Jenny Cheshire] Introduction. In David Britain and Jenny Cheshire (eds.) Social Dialectology. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1-8.
Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology. In David Britain and Jenny Cheshire (eds.) Social Dialectology. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 191-208.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Language choice and cultural hegemony in the Western Pacific: Linguistic symbols of domination and resistance in the Republic of Palau. In Daniel Nelson and Mirjana Dedaic (eds.) At war with words. Berlin: Mouton. 315-358.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] The sociolinguistic ‘gender paradox’: a case study from a small multilingual island in the Pacific’ International Journal of Bilingualism. 7: 127-152.
[with Wyn Johnson] L Vocalisation as a naturally occurring phenomenon. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 44: 1-37
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Contact and obsolescence in a diaspora variety of Japanese: The case of Palau in Micronesia. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 44: 38-75.
2002
Diffusion, levelling, simplification and reallocation in past tense BE in the English Fens. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6 (1): 16-43.
Space and spatial diffusion. In Jack Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds.) The Handbook of Variation and Change. Oxford: Blackwell. 603-637.
[with Andrea Sudbury] There's sheep and there's penguins: 'Drift', ‘slant’ and singular verb forms following existentials in New Zealand and Falkland Island English. In Mari Jones and Edith Esch (eds.) Language Change: The Interplay of Internal, External and Extra-linguistic Factors. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 209-242.
The British history of New Zealand English? Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 41: 1-41.
Phoenix from the ashes?: The death, contact and birth of dialects in England. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 41: 42-73.
Surviving 'Estuary English': innovation diffusion, koineisation and local dialect differentiation in the English Fenland. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 41: 74-103
Dialectology. In David Bickerton (ed.), A Web Guide to Teaching and Learning in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. Southampton: Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/gpg/964 [Updated January 2005].
Sociolinguistic Variation. In David Bickerton (ed.), A Web Guide to Teaching and Learning in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. Southampton: Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/gpg/1054 [Updated January 2005]
2001
Where did it all start?: dialect contact, the ‘Founder Principle’ and the so-called (-own) split in New Zealand English. Transactions of the Philological Society.99: 1-27.
Welcome to East Anglia!: two major dialect ‘boundaries’ in the Fens. In Peter Trudgill and Jacek Fisiak (eds.) East Anglian English. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer. 217-242.
Review of Paul Foulkes and Gerard Docherty (eds.) (1999) Urban Voices. London: Arnold. English World-wide 22 (1): 121-128.
Dialect contact and past BE in the English Fens Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 38: 1-38
If A changes to B, make sure A exists: a case study on the dialect origins of New Zealand English. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 38 : 39-79.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Conservative and innovative behaviour by female speakers in a multilingual Micronesian society. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 38: 80-106.
2000
[with Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, Harald Clahsen and Andrew Spencer] Introduccion a la linguistica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[with Peter Trudgill] Migration, dialect contact, new dialect formation and reallocation. In Klaus Mattheier (ed.) Dialect and migration in a changing Europe. Franfurt: Peter Lang. 73-78.
[with Andrea Sudbury] There's sheep and there's penguins: 'Drift' and the use of singular verb forms of BE in plural existential clauses in New Zealand and Falkland Island English. Essex research reports in linguistics. 28: 1-32
[with Andrea Sudbury] Is Falkland Island English linguistically a southern hemisphere variety?. Essex research reports in linguistics. 28: 33-59.
The difference that space makes: an evaluation of the application of human geographic thought in sociolinguistic dialectology. Essex research reports in linguistics. 29: 38-82.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Hegemonic diglossia and pickled radish: symbolic domination and resistance in the trilingual Republic of Palau. Essex research reports in linguistics. 29: 1-37.
1999
[with Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, Harald Clahsen and Andrew Spencer] Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
As far as analysing grammatical variation and change in New Zealand English with relatively few tokens <is concerned/¯>. In Allan Bell and Koenraad Kuiper (eds.) Focus on New Zealand English. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 198-220
[with Paul Warren] Prosody in New Zealand English. In Allan Bell and Koenraad Kuiper (eds.) Focus on New Zealand English. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 146-172.
Locating the baseline of linguistic innovations: dialect contact, the Founder Principle and the so-called (-own) split in New Zealand English In J C Conde Silvestre and J M Hernandez Campoy (eds.)Variation and Linguistic Change in English: Diachronic and Synchronic Studies. Special Issue of Cuadernos de Filologia Inglesa (vol. 8). 177-192.
[with Peter Trudgill] Migration, new-dialect formation and sociolinguistic refunctionalisation: reallocation as an outcome of dialect contact. Transactions of the Philological Society 97: 2 245-256.
Review of Marie Louise Moreau (ed.). (1997). Sociolinguistique: concepts de base. Hayen: Mardaga. Journal of Sociolinguistics 3-4: 584.
1998
Linguistic Change in Intonation: the use of High Rising Terminals in New Zealand English. In P Trudgill and J Cheshire (eds.) The Sociolinguistics Reader: Volume 1: Multilingualism and Variation. London: Arnold. pp213-239.
Review of Donn Bayard (1995) Kiwitalk: Sociolinguistics and New Zealand Society. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press. In The Journal of the Polynesian Society 107 (1): 79-80.
A little goes a long way, as far as analysing grammatical variation and change in New Zealand English <is concerned/Ø>. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 21: 1-32.
High Rising Terminals in New Zealand English: Who uses them, when and why? Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 21: 33-58.
[with Janet Holmes] (1998) Sex, Sound Symbolism and Sociolinguistics: a reply to Gordon and Heath. Current Anthropology 39 (4) 442.
1997
Dialect Contact and Phonological Reallocation: 'Canadian Raising' in the English Fens. Language in Society 26: 15-46.
Dialect Contact, focusing and phonological rule complexity: the koineisation of Fenland English. In C Boberg, M Meyerhoff and S Strassel (eds.) A Selection of Papers from NWAVE 25. Special issue of University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. 4 (1): 141-170.
Review of C Upton and J Widdowson (1996) An Atlas of English Dialects. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Times Higher Education Supplement. May 2nd 1997.
[with Jack Chambers] Accents and Dialects. In A Zwicky and R Hudson (eds) Contemporary English. Volume 105 of Annotated Bibliography for English Studies. Lisse, Netherlands: Swets and Zeitlinger.
1995
Review of Suzanne Romaine (1994) Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sociolinguistica 9: 147-149.
Review of Donn Bayard (1995) Kiwitalk: Sociolinguistics and New Zealand Society. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press. New Zealand Books 6 (2): 1-5
The Sociolinguistic Development of Canadian Raising in the English Fens. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 5: 1-53.
1992
Linguistic Change in Intonation: the use of High Rising Terminals in New Zealand English. Language Variation and Change 4, 77-104.
[with John Newman] High Rising Terminals in New Zealand English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 22, 1-11.
Grammatical variation in England. In Susan Fox (ed.), Language in the British Isles (fully revised 3rd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch] (eds.), Micronesian Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[with Hannah Hedegard and Andrea Sudbury] Falkland Island English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto]. English in the Republic of Palau. In David Britain, Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch (eds.), Micronesian Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch]. English in Micronesia: an Introduction. In David Britain, Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch] (eds.), Micronesian Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
English in Micronesia before the 20th Century. In David Britain, Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch (eds.), Micronesian Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch] Micronesian English or Micronesian Englishes? In David Britain, Kazuko Matsumoto, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch (eds.), Micronesian Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[with Robert Potter]. English in East Anglia. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 4: Varieties of English in Britain, Ireland and Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[with Hannah Hedegard and Andrea Sudbury] English in the Falkland Islands. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 6: English in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] English in Micronesia. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 6: English in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[with Unn Røyneland] (eds.) Dialect in Social Media. Special issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
[with Unn Røyneland] Dialect use in social media across Europe. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
Teach yourself dialect!: analysing YouTube tours of British English accents. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto and Aya Inoue] Pidgins, creoles, mixed languages and koines. In Kazuko Matsumoto, Heiko Narrog, John Maher and Mie Hiramoto (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Japanese Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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How urban is all this?: Perspectives on multiethnolects in monolingual societies. In Paul Kerswill and Heike Wiese (eds.), Urban contact dialects and language change: Insights from the global North and South. London: Routledge.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto and Praparat Prompapakorn] Rural koineisation: three cases studies from Palau, Thailand and England. In Chr. Tzitzilis & G. Papanastassiou (eds.) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Koine, koines and the formation of Standard Modern Greek. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
[with Tamsin Blaxter and Adrian Leemann] English Dialects App. In Christopher Montgomery and Emma Moore (eds.), Oxford Handbook of British Englishes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[with Adrian Leemann] Regional dialects in England. In Kingsley Bolton and Daniel Davis (eds.), Encyclopaedia of World Englishes. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
‘Urban’ and ‘rural’ in dialectology. In Beatrix Busse and Ingo Warnke (eds.), Sprache im urbanen Raum. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
2022
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] (eds.). Diaspora Japanese. Special Issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Volume 273.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] The vernacularity of Palauan Japanese International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 273: 103-144.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Diaspora Japanese: Transnational mobility and language contact. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 273: 1-29
2021
[with Sarah Grossenbacher] Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants: The case of the front short vowels in Eastern England. In Arne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer (eds.), Urban Matters. Current Approaches in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 89-118.
Grammatical variation in the contemporary spoken English of England. In Andy Kirkpatrick (ed.), The Handbook of World Englishes (fully revised second edition). London: Routledge. 32-58.
[with Tamsin Blaxter and Adrian Leemann]. Dialect levelling in England: evidence from the English Dialects App. In André Thibault, Mathieu Avanzi, Nicolas Lo Vecchio and Alice Millour (eds.), Nouveaux regards sur la variation dialectale/New ways of analysing dialectal variation. Paris: Éditions de Linguistique et de Philologie. 305-334.
[with Lars Bülow, Andrin Büchler, Nicolai Rawyler and Christa Schneider] Factors of variation in spoken Swiss Standard German. In Lars Bülow, Alexander Werth, Simone Pfenninger and Markus Schiegg (eds.), Intra-individual variation in language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 127-173.
[with Suzanne Britain] Sea shanties, Covid-19, Brexit, New Zealand, East Anglia and rhoticity: a Morrisseyian analysis. In S. Fox and N. Nyffenegger (eds.), FAMschrift: a Festschrift for Franz Andres Morrissey. Bern: Department of English, University of Bern.
Grammatical variation in the contemporary spoken English of England. In Andy Kirkpatrick (ed.), The Handbook of World Englishes (fully revised second edition). London: Routledge. 32-58.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Japan and the North-Western Pacific. In U. Ansaldo and M. Meyerhoff (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages. London: Routledge. 106-131.
[with Tamsin Blaxter] Hands off the metadata!: comparing the use of explicit and background metadata in crowdsourced dialectology. Linguistic Vanguard 7: 1-13.
2020
[with Tamsin Blaxter and Adrian Leemann] East Anglian English in the English Dialects App. English Today 143 (36:3) 14-30.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Japan and the North-Western Pacific. In U. Ansaldo and M. Meyerhoff (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages. London: Routledge. 106-131.
[with Sandra Jansen, Justyna Robinson, Lynne Cahill, Adrian Leemann and Tam Blaxter] Sussex by the sea: a descriptive analysis of dialect variation in the south of England based on English Dialect App data. English Today 143 (36:3) 31-39.
What happened to those relatives from East Anglia?: a multilocality analysis of dialect levelling in the relative marker system. In Karen Beaman, Isabelle Buchstaller, Susan Fox and James Walker (eds), Socio-grammatical Variation and Change: In Honour of Jenny Cheshire. New York: Routledge. 93-114.
Denmark: a perhaps unexpected dialect laboratory. In Marie Maegaard, Malene Monka, Kristine Køhler Mortensen, Andreas Candefors Stæhr (eds.), Patterns of language standardization in the periphery: transversal perspectives. 228-237.
[with Keiko Hirano] Accommodation and social networks: Grammatical variation among expatriate English speakers in Japan. In YoshiyukiAsahi (ed.), Proceedings of Methods XVI: Papers from the sixteenth international conference on Methods in Dialectology, 2017. Berlin: Peter Lang. 91-104.
2019
[with Laura Rupp] Linguistic perspectives on a variable English morpheme: let’s talk about –s. London: Palgrave.
A sociolinguistic ecology of colonial Britain. In D. Schreier, E. Schneider and M. Hundt (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 145-159.
[with Christa Schneider and Sarah Grossenbacher] Quotative variation in Bernese Swiss German. In Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Diaz-Montesinos, Antonio-Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro (eds.), Language variation: European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE9), Malaga, June 2017. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 191-202.
[with Juan Manuel Hernández Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas Espinosa] Variação e competência sociolinguísticas no ensino de inglês como língua estrangeira. Revista EntreLínguas 6: 157-175.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Pancakes stuffed with sweet bean paste: food-related lexical borrowings as indicators of the intensity of language contact in the Pacific. In G. Balirano and S Guzzo (eds.), Food across cultures: linguistic insights in transcultural tastes. London: Palgrave. 127-167.
[with P. Strycharczuk, G. Brown and A. Leemann] Investigating FOOT-STRUT in Northern Englishes using crowdsourced data. Proceedings of the ICPhS 2019, 1337-1341.
[With A. Leemann, T. Blaxter and K. Earnshaw] The FACE of Change in English Dialects: 1950 v 20118. Proceedings of ICPhS 2019, 373-377.
[with Crispin Thurlow] Voice work: Learning about and from dialect coaches. In Crispin Thurlow (ed.), The business of words: wordsmiths, linguists and other language workers. London: Routledge.
[with Yvette Bürki] Plus ça change. In Etna Krakenberger, Aline Kunz and Silvia Natale (eds.), Esercizi di fantalinguistica. Pisa: Pacini. 153-156.
2018
Beyond the ‘gentry aesthetic’: elites, Received Pronunciation and the dialectological gaze in England. In Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski (eds.), Elite Discourse: The rhetorics of status, privilege and power. London: Routledge.
[with Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly]. The English Dialects App: The creation of a crowdsourced dialect corpus. Ampersand 5: 1-17.
Dialect contact and new dialect formation. In Dominic Watt, John Nerbonne and Charles Boberg (eds.), Handbook of Dialectology. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. 143-158.
[with Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly] Using impact to make impact? Experiences from a dialect crowdsourcing project. In Dan Macintyre and Hazel Price (eds.), Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda. London: Routledge, 83-98.
Review of “Rachel Hendry (2015). One man is an island: The speech community William Marsters begat on Palmerston Island. London: Battlebridge”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 33: 226-230.
Paris: a sociolinguistic comparative perspective. Journal of French Language Studies 28: 291-300.
2017
Which way to look?: Perspectives on “Urban” and “Rural” in dialectology. In Chris Montgomery and Emma Moore (eds.) A Sense of Place: Studies in Language and Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 171-188.
Language, mobility and scale in South and Central Asia: a commentary. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 247: 127-137.
Beyond the ‘gentry aesthetic’: elites, Received Pronunciation and the dialectological gaze in England. Social Semiotics 27: 288-298.
[with Susan Fox] (2017). Ask a linguist: Why is there a split between 'a' and 'an' in English determiners? Babel 19: 19.
[with Peter Trudgill] Reallocation as an outcome of dialect contact: three examples from East Anglia. In Juan Manuel Hernandez Campoy, Rosa Manchon, Juan Antonio Cutillas Espinosa and Flor Mena (eds.). Festschrift for Prof Rafael Monroy. Murcia: University of Murcia Press.
2016
Sedentarism, nomadism and the sociolinguistics of dialect. In Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 217-241.
[with Allan Bell and Devyani Sharma] (eds.) Labov and Sociolinguistics: Fifty Years of Language in Social Context. Special issue of Journal of Sociolinguistics Volume 20 (4). Oxford: Wiley.
[with Allan Bell and Devyani Sharma] Labov in Sociolinguistics: an introduction. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20: 399-408.
[with Allan Bell, Bonnie McIlhenny, Joseph Park and Devyani Sharma] How to get published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20: 3-5.
[with Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, Harald Clahsen and Andrew Spencer] Introduccion a la linguistica (second edition). Madrid: Ediciones Akal.
[with Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Ross Purves and Elvira Glaser] Crowdsourcing language change with smartphone applications. PlosOne 11 (1): e0143060. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143060
[with Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly]. English Dialects: an English dialect application for the smartphone.
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[with Siria Guzzo] (eds.) Languaging Diversity: Volume 2: Sociolinguistics and Identity. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.
[with Siria Guzzo] Languaging Identities: an Introduction. In Siria Guzzo and David Britain (eds.), Languaging Diversity: Volume 2: Sociolinguistics and Identity. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.
[with Keiko Hirano] Accommodation, dialect contact and grammatical variation: Verbs of obligation in the Anglophone community in Japan. In Olga Timofeeva, Anne Gardner and Alpo Honkapohja (eds.), New approaches to English Linguistics: Building Bridges. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 13-33.
2015
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Palauan English. In Jeff Williams, Edgar Schneider, Peter Trudgill and Daniel Schreier (eds.). Further Studies in the Lesser Known Varieties of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 305-343.
[with Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Ross Purves and Elvira Glaser] Documenting sound change with smartphone apps. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 137 (4): 2304.
Between North and South: The Fenland. In Raymond Hickey (ed.). Northern Englishes. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 417-435.
2014
[with Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Iwar Werlen and Dieter Studer-Joho] The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German. Language Variation and Change 26: 191-218.
Where North meets South?: contact, divergence, and the routinisation of the Fenland dialect boundary. In Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas (eds.), Languages, borders and identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 27-43.
2013
Space, diffusion and mobility. In Jack Chambers and Natalie Schilling (eds.), Handbook of Language Variation and Change (second edition). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 471-500.
The role of mundane mobility and contact in dialect death and dialect birth. In D Schreier and M Hundt (eds.), English as a contact language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 165-181.
Geographical dialectology. In Janet Holmes and Kirk Hazen (eds.), Research Methods in Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley. 246-261.
[with Andrea Sudbury] Falkland Island English. In Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.) The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 669-676.
2012
Innovation diffusion in sociohistorical linguistics. In J. M. Hernandez Campoy and J. C. Conde Silvestre (eds.), Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 451-464.
Diffusion. In A Bergs and L Brinton (eds.), English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2031-2043.
Koineization and cake baking: Reflections on methods in dialect contact research. In Andrea Ender, Adrian Leemann and Bernhard Wälchli (eds.), Methods in Contemporary Linguistics. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. 219-238.
Countering the urbanist agenda in variationist sociolinguistics: dialect contact, demographic change and the rural-urban dichotomy. In Hansen, Sandra, Christian Schwarz, Philipp Stoeckle and Tobias Streck (eds.), Dialectological and folk dialectological concepts of space. Berlin: de Gruyter. 12-30.
English in England. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Areal features of the Anglophone World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 23-52.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Palauan English as a newly emerging postcolonial variety in the Pacific. Language, Information, Text 19: 137-167.
[with Annette Kern-Stähler] (eds.). English on the Move: Mobilities in Literature and Language. Tübingen: Narr.
[with Annette Kern-Stähler] Introduction. In Annette Kern-Stähler and David Britain (eds.). English on the Move: Mobilities in Literature and Language. Tübingen: Narr. 11-15.
2011
[with Allan Bell, Monica Heller and Lionel Wee] How to get published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15: 3-5.
The heterogeneous homogenisation of dialects in England. Taal en tongval 63: 43-60.
2010
Conceptualisations of geographic space in linguistics. In Alfred Lameli, Roland Kehrein and Stefan Rabanus (eds.), Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation. Volume 2: Language Mapping. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 69-97.
Dialectology. In K Malmkjaer (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Linguistics. London: Routledge. 127-133.
[with Andrea Sudbury] South Atlantic Ocean: Falkland Island English. In Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill, Edgar Schneider and Jeffrey Williams (eds). Lesser Known Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 209-223.
Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling. In C Llamas and D Watt (eds.) Language and identities. Edinburgh University Press. 193-204.
Contact and dialectology. In R Hickey (ed.). Handbook of Language Contact. Oxford: Blackwell. 208-229.
Grammatical variation in the contemporary spoken English of England. In Andy Kirkpatrick (ed.), The Handbook of World Englishes. London: Routledge. 37-58.
Dialect contact, focusing and phonological rule complexity: the koineisation of Fenland English. In Miriam Meyerhoff and Erik Schleef (eds.), The Sociolinguistics Reader. London: Routledge. 231-247.
Foreword. In Barry Heselwood and Clive Upton (eds.), Methods in Dialectology: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. xi.
2009
[with Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, Harald Clahsen and Andrew Spencer] Linguistics: An Introduction. (Revised Second Edition) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Language and space: the variationist approach. In P. Auer and J. Schmidt (eds.), Language and space: an international handbook of linguistic variation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 142-162.
[with Susan Fox] The Regularisation of the Hiatus Resolution System in British English: A Contact-Induced ‘Vernacular Universal’? In Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Heli Paulasto (eds.) Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond. London: Routledge. 177-205.
[with Reinhild Vandekerckhove and Willy Jongenburger] (eds.). Dialect Death in Europe? Special double issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Volume 196-197.
One foot in the grave?: Dialect death, dialect contact and dialect birth in England. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 196/197: 121-155.
[with Reinhild Vandekerckhove] Dialects in western Europe: a balanced picture of language death, innovation and change. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 196/197: 1-6.
‘Big bright lights’ versus ‘green and pleasant land’? The unhelpful dichotomy of ‘urban’ v ‘rural’ in dialectology. In E Al-Wer and R de Jong (eds.) Arabic dialectology. Leiden: Brill. 223-248.
2008
When is a change not a change?: a case study on the dialect origins of New Zealand English. Language Variation and Change 20: 187-223.
[with Sue Fox] “Vernacular universals” and the regularisation of the hiatus resolution system in British English. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 57 (3): 1-42.
Innovation diffusion, ‘Estuary English’ and local dialect differentiation:
the survival of Fenland Englishes. In Nikolaus Coupland and Adam Jaworski (eds.), Sociolinguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics: Volume 1. London: Routledge. 192-217.
2007
(Ed.) Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Grammatical variation in England. In D Britain (ed.) Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 75-104.
[with Wyn Johnson] L-vocalisation as a Natural Phenomenon: Explorations in Sociophonology. Language Sciences 29: 294-315.
[with Claudia Felser] Deconstructing what with absolutes. In A Radford (ed.) Martin Atkinson – the Minimalist Muse: Special issue of Essex Research Reports in Linguistics. 53: 97-134.
Review of “Edgar Schneider, Kate Burridge, Bernd Kortmann, Rajend Mesthrie and Clive Upton (eds.) (2004). A Handbook of Varieties of English: Volume 1: Phonology; Volume 2: Morphosyntax; CD-ROM. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter”. Journal of Linguistics 43 (3): 742-746.
Review of “Daniel Schreier (2005). Consonant change in English Worldwide. Basingstoke: Palgrave”. English World-Wide 28 (3): 332-339.
2006
Language/Dialect Contact. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition): Volume 6. Oxford: Elsevier. 651-656.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Palau: Language Situation. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition): Volume 9. Oxford: Elsevier. 129-130.
2005
Innovation diffusion, ‘Estuary English’ and local dialect differentiation: the survival of Fenland Englishes. Linguistics 43 (5): 995-1022.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Language, Communities, Networks and Practices. In Martin Ball (ed.) Clinical Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 3-14.
[with Peter Trudgill] New dialect formation and contact-induced reallocation: three case studies from the Fens. International Journal of English Studies 5 (1): 183-209.
Where did New Zealand English come from? In Allan Bell, Ray Harlow and Donna Starks (eds.) The Languages of New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press. 156-193.
The dying dialects of England? In Antonio Bertacca (ed.), Historical linguistic studies of spoken English. Pisa: Edizioni Plus. 35-46.
2004
Geolinguistics – Diffusion of Language. In Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus Mattheier and Peter Trudgill (eds.) Sociolinguistics: International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. 34-48.
Dialect and Accent. In Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus Mattheier and Peter Trudgill (eds.) Sociolinguistics: International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. 267-273.
2003
(ed.) [with Jenny Cheshire] Social Dialectology: in honour of Peter Trudgill. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
[with Jenny Cheshire] Introduction. In David Britain and Jenny Cheshire (eds.) Social Dialectology. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1-8.
Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology. In David Britain and Jenny Cheshire (eds.) Social Dialectology. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 191-208.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Language choice and cultural hegemony in the Western Pacific: Linguistic symbols of domination and resistance in the Republic of Palau. In Daniel Nelson and Mirjana Dedaic (eds.) At war with words. Berlin: Mouton. 315-358.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] The sociolinguistic ‘gender paradox’: a case study from a small multilingual island in the Pacific’ International Journal of Bilingualism. 7: 127-152.
[with Wyn Johnson] L Vocalisation as a naturally occurring phenomenon. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 44: 1-37
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Contact and obsolescence in a diaspora variety of Japanese: The case of Palau in Micronesia. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 44: 38-75.
2002
Diffusion, levelling, simplification and reallocation in past tense BE in the English Fens. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6 (1): 16-43.
Space and spatial diffusion. In Jack Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds.) The Handbook of Variation and Change. Oxford: Blackwell. 603-637.
[with Andrea Sudbury] There's sheep and there's penguins: 'Drift', ‘slant’ and singular verb forms following existentials in New Zealand and Falkland Island English. In Mari Jones and Edith Esch (eds.) Language Change: The Interplay of Internal, External and Extra-linguistic Factors. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 209-242.
The British history of New Zealand English? Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 41: 1-41.
Phoenix from the ashes?: The death, contact and birth of dialects in England. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 41: 42-73.
Surviving 'Estuary English': innovation diffusion, koineisation and local dialect differentiation in the English Fenland. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 41: 74-103
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2001
Where did it all start?: dialect contact, the ‘Founder Principle’ and the so-called (-own) split in New Zealand English. Transactions of the Philological Society.99: 1-27.
Welcome to East Anglia!: two major dialect ‘boundaries’ in the Fens. In Peter Trudgill and Jacek Fisiak (eds.) East Anglian English. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer. 217-242.
Review of Paul Foulkes and Gerard Docherty (eds.) (1999) Urban Voices. London: Arnold. English World-wide 22 (1): 121-128.
Dialect contact and past BE in the English Fens Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 38: 1-38
If A changes to B, make sure A exists: a case study on the dialect origins of New Zealand English. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 38 : 39-79.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Conservative and innovative behaviour by female speakers in a multilingual Micronesian society. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 38: 80-106.
2000
[with Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, Harald Clahsen and Andrew Spencer] Introduccion a la linguistica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[with Peter Trudgill] Migration, dialect contact, new dialect formation and reallocation. In Klaus Mattheier (ed.) Dialect and migration in a changing Europe. Franfurt: Peter Lang. 73-78.
[with Andrea Sudbury] There's sheep and there's penguins: 'Drift' and the use of singular verb forms of BE in plural existential clauses in New Zealand and Falkland Island English. Essex research reports in linguistics. 28: 1-32
[with Andrea Sudbury] Is Falkland Island English linguistically a southern hemisphere variety?. Essex research reports in linguistics. 28: 33-59.
The difference that space makes: an evaluation of the application of human geographic thought in sociolinguistic dialectology. Essex research reports in linguistics. 29: 38-82.
[with Kazuko Matsumoto] Hegemonic diglossia and pickled radish: symbolic domination and resistance in the trilingual Republic of Palau. Essex research reports in linguistics. 29: 1-37.
1999
[with Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, Harald Clahsen and Andrew Spencer] Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
As far as analysing grammatical variation and change in New Zealand English with relatively few tokens <is concerned/¯>. In Allan Bell and Koenraad Kuiper (eds.) Focus on New Zealand English. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 198-220
[with Paul Warren] Prosody in New Zealand English. In Allan Bell and Koenraad Kuiper (eds.) Focus on New Zealand English. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 146-172.
Locating the baseline of linguistic innovations: dialect contact, the Founder Principle and the so-called (-own) split in New Zealand English In J C Conde Silvestre and J M Hernandez Campoy (eds.)Variation and Linguistic Change in English: Diachronic and Synchronic Studies. Special Issue of Cuadernos de Filologia Inglesa (vol. 8). 177-192.
[with Peter Trudgill] Migration, new-dialect formation and sociolinguistic refunctionalisation: reallocation as an outcome of dialect contact. Transactions of the Philological Society 97: 2 245-256.
Review of Marie Louise Moreau (ed.). (1997). Sociolinguistique: concepts de base. Hayen: Mardaga. Journal of Sociolinguistics 3-4: 584.
1998
Linguistic Change in Intonation: the use of High Rising Terminals in New Zealand English. In P Trudgill and J Cheshire (eds.) The Sociolinguistics Reader: Volume 1: Multilingualism and Variation. London: Arnold. pp213-239.
Review of Donn Bayard (1995) Kiwitalk: Sociolinguistics and New Zealand Society. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press. In The Journal of the Polynesian Society 107 (1): 79-80.
A little goes a long way, as far as analysing grammatical variation and change in New Zealand English <is concerned/Ø>. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 21: 1-32.
High Rising Terminals in New Zealand English: Who uses them, when and why? Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 21: 33-58.
[with Janet Holmes] (1998) Sex, Sound Symbolism and Sociolinguistics: a reply to Gordon and Heath. Current Anthropology 39 (4) 442.
1997
Dialect Contact and Phonological Reallocation: 'Canadian Raising' in the English Fens. Language in Society 26: 15-46.
Dialect Contact, focusing and phonological rule complexity: the koineisation of Fenland English. In C Boberg, M Meyerhoff and S Strassel (eds.) A Selection of Papers from NWAVE 25. Special issue of University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. 4 (1): 141-170.
Review of C Upton and J Widdowson (1996) An Atlas of English Dialects. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Times Higher Education Supplement. May 2nd 1997.
[with Jack Chambers] Accents and Dialects. In A Zwicky and R Hudson (eds) Contemporary English. Volume 105 of Annotated Bibliography for English Studies. Lisse, Netherlands: Swets and Zeitlinger.
1995
Review of Suzanne Romaine (1994) Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sociolinguistica 9: 147-149.
Review of Donn Bayard (1995) Kiwitalk: Sociolinguistics and New Zealand Society. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press. New Zealand Books 6 (2): 1-5
The Sociolinguistic Development of Canadian Raising in the English Fens. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 5: 1-53.
1992
Linguistic Change in Intonation: the use of High Rising Terminals in New Zealand English. Language Variation and Change 4, 77-104.
[with John Newman] High Rising Terminals in New Zealand English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 22, 1-11.