Publications
| 2022 | 'Palatalisation
can be quantity-sensitive: Dorsal Fricative
Assimilation in Liverpool English.' Journal of Linguistics 58,
759-806.
[With Amanda Cardoso]. [download
a copy] |
|
2022 |
'Introduction: English Historical Linguistics at 20 ICEHLs.' In Los, Bettelou, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone & Graeme Trousdale (eds.) English Historical Linguistics: Change in Structure and Meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL, 1-12. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [With Bettelou Los]. [download a copy] |
| 2022 |
Edited volume: English Historical Linguistics: Change in Structure and Meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [Edited with Bettelou Los, Claire Cowie and Graeme Trousdale]. [table of contents] |
| 2022 | 'Unnecessary asterisks and realism in reconstruction: underspecified is still real.' In Grestenberger, Laura, Charles Reiss, Hannes A. Fellner & Gabriel Z. Pantillon (eds.) Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R. Hale, 153-170. Wiesbaden: Reichert. [download a copy] |
| 2021 | '25 years of English Language and Linguistics: a celebration and analysis.' English Language and Linguistics 25(4), 677-685. [With Laurel J. Brinton, Bernd Kortmann & Elena Seoane]. [download a copy] |
| 2021 | '25 years of English Language and Linguistics.' Cambridge Extra blog. [With Laurel J. Brinton, Bernd Kortmann & Elena Seoane]. [read online] |
| 2021 | (On aspects of phonological theory relevant to diachrony and not synchony.) Comments on 'Phonological units for phonological change: synchrony shall provide them' by Dmitrii Zelenskii (Papers in Historical Phonology, vol. 6). http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/5710 |
| 2021 |
'Individuals, communities, and sound change: an introduction.' Glossa 6: 67. 1–17. (In the Special Collection on Individuals, Communities, and Sound Change). [With Lauren Hall-Lew and James Kirby]. [read online] [download a copy] |
| 2021 |
Edited volume:
'Individuals, Communities, and Sound Change.' Special
Collection of Glossa.
[Edited with James Kirby and Lauren Hall-Lew]. [table
of
contents] |
| 2020 |
'Which phonological features get represented in dialect writing? Answers and questions from three types of Liverpool English texts.' In Honeybone, Patrick & Warren Maguire (eds.) Dialect Writing and the North of England, 211-242. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [download a copy] |
| 2020 |
'Introduction: What is dialect writing? Where is the North of England?' In Honeybone, Patrick & Warren Maguire (eds.) Dialect Writing and the North of England. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1-28. [With Warren Maguire]. [download a copy] |
| 2020 |
Edited volume: Dialect Writing and the
North of England. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press. [Edited with
Warren Maguire]. [table of
contents] [EUP
website] |
| 2020 | (On affective phonosymbolism, prophylaxis and analogy-like changes.) Comments on 'On 'affective' exceptions to sound change: an example from the Mojeño (Arawakan) kinship terminology system' by Fernando de Carvalho (Papers in Historical Phonology, vol. 5). http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/4421 |
| 2020 | (On the innovation of rules outside of the life-cycle.) Comments on 'The lowering of high vowels before [r] in Latin' by András Cser (Papers in Historical Phonology, vol. 5). http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/4416 |
| 2020 | 'Representation-based models in the current landscape of phonological theory.' Acta Linguistica Academica 67.1, 3-27. [With Katalin Balogné Bérces]. [download a copy] |
| 2019 | 'Phonotactics, prophylaxis, acquisitionism and change: *Rime-xxŋ and ash-tensing in the history of English.' Papers in Historical Phonology 4, 83-135. [download a copy] |
| 2019 |
'Can phonotactic constraints inhibit segmental change? Arguments from lenition and syncope.' Folia Linguistica Historica 40, 9-36. [download a copy] |
| 2019 | (On misperception and lexical-specificity in phonological change.) Comments on 'A different path to [f]: labiodentalization in Faifi Arabic' by Stuart Davis & Abdullah Alfaifi (Papers in Historical Phonology, vol. 4). http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/3072 |
| 2019 |
Review of: Hickey, Raymond (ed.) (2017) 'Listening to the Past. Audio Records of Accents of English.' Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5.1. [download a copy] |
| 2019 |
'Editorial' English Language and Linguistics 23.1, i–ii. [With Laurel J. Brinton, Bernd Kortmann & Elena Seoane]. [download a copy] |
| 2018 | (On the innovation and loss of aspiration.) Comments on 'Aspiration in Basque' by José Ignacio Hualde (Papers in Historical Phonology, vol. 3). http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/2602 |
| 2017 |
'Lenition and T-to-R are differently salient: the representation of competing realisations of /t/ in Liverpool English dialect literature.' In Beal, Joan & Sylvie Hancil (eds.) Perspectives on Northern Englishes. Berlin: De Gruyter, 83-108. [With Kevin Watson & Sarah van Eyndhoven ]. [download a copy] |
| 2017 | (On realism in phonological reconstruction.) Comment on 'Reality in a soft science: the metaphonology of historical reconstruction' by Roger Lass (Papers in Historical Phonology, vol. 2). http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/2506 |
| 2017 | Review of: Minkova, Donka (2014) 'A Historical Phonology of English.' English Today 129, 62-64. [download a copy] |
| 2017 | (On u-fronting.) Comment on 'Vocalic Shifts in Attic-Ionic Greek' by Bridget D. Samuels (Papers in Historical Phonology, vol. 2). http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/1908 |
| 2016 | 'Are there
impossible changes? θ > f but f  θ' Papers in Historical
Phonology 1, 316-358. [download
a
copy] |
| 2016 | 'Preface.' Papers in Historical Phonology 1, 1-4. [With Julian Bradfield, Josef Fruehwald, Pavel Iosad, Benjamin Molineaux & Michael Ramsammy]. [download a copy] |
| 2016 | Discussion of
Geoffrey Sampson's review of Hickey (ed., 2015) Researching Northern
English. (On structural and perceptual
dialectology, and on detail in the description of
Northern Englishes). The Linguist List. [first
piece] [Sampson's
response] [second
piece] |
| 2015 | 'Structuralist
historical
phonology:
systems in segmental change.' In Honeybone,
Patrick & Joseph Salmons
(eds.) The Oxford
Handbook of Historical Phonology. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 32-46. [With
Joseph Salmons]. Also appeared in Oxford Handbooks Online,
listed as (2014) below – the text of the two versions
is largely identical, but this is the version of
record. [download a copy]
[google
books] |
| 2015 | 'Introduction: key questions for historical
phonology.' In Honeybone,
Patrick & Joseph Salmons
(eds.) The
Oxford
Handbook of Historical Phonology. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 3-10. [With
Joseph Salmons]. [download a copy] [google
books] |
| 2015 |
Edited volume: The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Edited with Joseph Salmons]. [table of contents] [google books] |
| 2015 |
'Analysin de werdz ov de Scouse Alice: translating Standard English into Scouse.' With back-translation and notes. In Lindseth, Jon & Alan Tannenbaum (eds.) Alice in a World of Wonderlands: the translations of Lewis Carroll’s Masterpiece. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, vol. 1 661-664, vol. 2 602-605. [download a copy] |
| 2014 | 'Structuralist historical phonology: systems in
segmental change.' Oxford Handbooks Online. [With
Joseph Salmons]. [read
on
the Oxford Handbooks Online website] |
| 2013 |
'Salience and the
sociolinguistics of Scouse spelling: exploring the
phonology of the Contemporary Humorous Localised
Dialect Literature of Liverpool.' English World-Wide 34,
305-340. [With Kevin Watson]. [download
a copy] |
| 2013 |
T-to-R and the Northern Subject Rule: questionnaire-based spatial, social and structural linguistics.' English Language and Linguistics 17, 85-128. [With Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan, Anders Homberg & Warren Maguire]. [download a copy] |
| 2012 | 'Lenition in English.' In Nevalainen, Terttu & Elizabeth Traugott (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. New York: Oxford University Press, 773-787. [download a copy] |
| 2012 | 'Splitting "intervocalic": expanding the typology of lenition environments.' Acta Linguistica Hungarica 59, 27-48. [With Katalin Balogné Bérces]. [download a copy] |
| 2012 | 'History and historical linguistics: two types of cognitive reconstruction?' In Langer, N., S. Davies & W. Vandenbussche. (eds) Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography. Bern: Peter Lang. 15-47. [download a copy] |
| 2011 |
'Variation and linguistic theory.' In Maguire, W. & A. McMahon. (eds.) Analysing variation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 151-177. [download a copy] |
| 2010 | 'How symmetrical are English vowels?' Yazyk i rechevaya deyatel'nost' (Language and Language Behavior). Journal of the Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg 9 (issue dated 2006), 33-63. [download a copy] |
| 2010 | 'Using questionnaires to investigate non-standard dialects.' 'Northern English and Scots, Phonology and Syntax' website. |
| 2009 | Review of: Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2007) 'Konsonantenwandel: Bausteine zu einer Typologie des Lautwandels und ihre Konsequenzen.' Diachronica 26, 280-284. [download a copy] |
| 2009 | 'Optimality Theory.' In Chapman, S. & C. Routledge. (eds) Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 145-149. [download a copy] |
| 2009 | 'Distinctive Features.' In Chapman, S. & C. Routledge. (eds) Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 65-66. [download a copy] |
| 2008 | 'Lenition, weakening and consonantal strength: tracing concepts through the history of phonology.' In Brandão de Carvalho, J., T. Scheer. & P. Ségéral. (eds) Lenition and Fortition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 9-93. [download a copy] |
| 2007 | 'New-dialect formation in nineteenth century Liverpool: a brief history of Scouse.' In Grant, A. & C. Grey. (eds) The Mersey Sound: Liverpool’s Language, People and Places. Liverpool: Open House Press, 106-140. [download a copy] |
| 2007 | Review of: Hale, Mark (2007) 'Historical Linguistics: Theory and Method' (and four short book notices). Times Higher Education Supplement Textbook Guide. Issue of 23 November, 8-9. |
| 2007 | 'English phonology and linguistic theory: an introduction to issues, and to "Issues in English Phonology".' Language Sciences 29, 117-153. [With Philip Carr]. [download a copy] |
| 2007 | Edited volume: 'Issues in English
Phonology.' Special double issue of Language
Sciences. [Edited with Philip Carr]. [table
of
contents] |
| 2006 | Review of: Holt, D. E. (ed.), (2003) 'Optimality Theory and Language Change.' Journal of Linguistics 42, 726-731. [download a copy] |
| 2006 | 'Phonemes, graphemes and phonics for Liverpool English.' Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. [With Kevin Watson]. [download a copy] |
| 2006 | 'Phonology and syntax: a shifting relationship.' Lingua 116, 543-561. [With Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero]. [download a copy] |
| 2006 | Edited volume: 'Linguistic knowledge: perspectives from phonology and from syntax.' Special issue of Lingua. [Edited with Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero]. [table of contents] |
| 2005 | Review of: Odden, D (2005) 'Introducing Phonology' and Ashby, M. & J. Maidment. (2005) 'Introducing Phonetic Science.' Times Higher Education Supplement Textbook Guide. Issue of 2nd December 2005, xv. |
| 2005 | Conference report: the XVIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Society for Germanic Linguistics Newsletter 17/2. [download a copy] |
| 2005 | 'J.R. Firth.' In Chapman, S. & C. Routledge. (eds) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 80-86. [download a copy] |
| 2005 | 'Karl Brugmann.' In Chapman, S. & C. Routledge. (eds) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 45-48. [download a copy] |
| 2005 | 'N.S. Trubetzkoy.' In Chapman, S. & C. Routledge. (eds) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 267-268. [download a copy] |
| 2005 | 'Jacob Grimm.' In Chapman, S. & C. Routledge. (eds) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 114-116. [download a copy] |
| 2005 | 'Diachronic evidence in segmental phonology: the case of obstruent laryngeal specifications.' In van Oostendorp, M. & J. van de Weijer. (eds) The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 319-354. [download a copy] |
| 2005 | 'Sharing makes us stronger: process inhibition and segmental structure.' In Carr, P., J. Durand. & C. Ewen. (eds) Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological Papers in Honour of John Anderson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 167-192. [download a copy] |
| 2004 | 'The Irish influence on the Liverpool Accent.' For a CD-ROM produced by Liverpool City Council for distribution to schools. [open a copy - uses Flash Player] (They did a good job in turning it into the CD-ROM, although the 'transcriptions' don't quite work.) |
| 2003 | Review of: Lahiri, Aditi (ed.) (2000) 'Analogy, Levelling, Markedness: Principles of Change in Phonology and Morphology.' Journal of Linguistics 39, 672-678. [download a copy] |
| 2003 | Review of: Boase-Beier, J. & K. Lodge. (2002) 'The German Language: a Linguistic Introduction.' Times Higher Education Supplement Textbook Guide. Issue of 28th November 2003, x. |
| 2003 | 'Process inhibition in historical phonology.' In Blake, B. & K. Burridge. Historical Linguistics 2001. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 181-203. [download a copy] |
| 2002 | Review of: Foulkes, Paul & Gerald Docherty. (eds.) 'Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles.' English Language and Linguistics 6, 410-416. [download a copy] |
| 2002 | Germanic Obstruent Lenition: some mutual implications of theoretical and historical phonology. PhD thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. [download a copy] |
| 2001 | 'Lenition Inhibition in Liverpool English.' English Language and Linguistics 5, 213-249. [download a copy] |
| 2001 | Review of: Ladefoged, P. (2001) 'Vowels and Consonants: an Introduction to the Sounds of Languages' and Rogers, H. (2000) 'The Sounds of Language: an Introduction to Phonetics.' Times Higher Education Supplement Textbook Guide. Issue of 30th November 2001, ix. |
| 2001 | Conference report: the Ninth Manchester Phonology Meeting. Glot International 5. |
| 2000 | Review of: Hammond, Michael (1999) 'The Phonology of English: a Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach.' Journal of Linguistics 36, 165-171. [download a copy] |
| 1999 | 'I blame the Government.' [A discussion of Government Phonology and Shohei Yoshida's 'Phonological Government in Japanese']. Language Sciences 21, 177-221. [download a copy] |
| 1999 | 'Life, language and the things linguists look at.' English Today 57, 35-41. |
| 1999 | Book notice for: Brandner, E & G. Ferraresi (1996) 'Language change and generative grammar.' Language 75, 624-625. |
| 1998 | 'On the language gene blues.' English Today 53, 45-49. |
| 1997 | 'The nature of constraints in Optimality Theory.' Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester 2, 113-137. |
| 1997 | Review of: Laver, John (1991, paperback edition 1996) 'The Gift of Speech.' Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics 2, 29k. |
| 1996 | 'Is lenition naturally optimal?' Newcastle & Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 4, 101-125. |
| 1996 | 'Does phonology change? Language, speech and representation.' Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester 1, 75-90. |
| 1995 | 'Explanation, Government Phonology, and the history of velarity in German.' Newcastle & Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 3, 77-104. |
Presentations
| 2022 | 'Should fortition have a place in diachronic phonological typology?' Presented at the XXVth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford. |
| 2021 | 'Are phonotactic constraints psychologically real? Evidence from process-inhibition in phonological change.' Presented as an invited talk at the Linguistics Department Colloquium, Indiana University. |
| 2021 | 'Voice and
aspiration in historical phonology: implications
for Indo-European reconstruction.' Invited speaker
at the XLV Convegno della Società Italiana di
Glottologia, University of Pisa. |
| 2021 | 'Wigh ai lyke eye-dialect.' Presented at the Seminar on 'English Dialects from Page to Stage' at the 15th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, University of Lyon. [download a copy of the slides] |
| 2021 | 'Dialect writing meets phonology, or What’s the difference between Liverpool Lenition and T-to-R?' Presented as an invited talk at Sheffield Ling-Lunch, University of Sheffield. |
| 2021 | 'How can phonotactic constraints inhibit phonological change?' Presented as an invited talk at the Changelings discussion group, Ohio State University. |
| 2020 | 'How likely is it that phonology changes? Grappling with the notion of "phonological stability".' Presented as an invited talk for University of Edinburgh Linguistics Society. |
| 2019 | 'Does fortition exist? Reasons to be doubtful.' Presented as a poster at the Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh. |
| 2019 | 'Diachronic phonological typology: a plea for detail.' Keynote speaker in the Workshop on phonological (in)stability and language evolution, at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig University. [download a copy of the slides] |
| 2019 | 'Seemingly contradictory evidence for foot structure makes sense if you look hard: what is the English minimal foot?' Fonologi i Norden 2019 workshop, University of Edinburgh. |
| 2018 | 'Evidence for English foot structure from consonantal processes: moras count.' 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Edinburgh. |
| 2018 | 'Scouse Diddification.' Presented at the 8th Northern Englishes Workshop, Newcastle University. |
| 2017 | 'Laryngeal Features and Historical Phonology: what are the issues?' Presented at the Fringe Workshop on Laryngeal Features in Historical Phonology, the Third Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh. [With Michael Ramsammy]. |
| 2017 | 'Does English r-sandhi involve insertion, deletion, or both? Evidence from opacity in pre-r dentalisation.' Invited speaker at the Phonologie de l'Anglais Contemporain 2017 conference, Paris Nanterre University. |
| 2017 | 'Can phonotactic constraints inhibit segmental change? And if so, how?' Invited speaker at the Diachronic Phonotactics Workshop, University of Vienna. |
| 2017 | 'Internal and external factors in phonological history: either/or or both?.' Invited speaker at the Sixth International Conference on Late Modern English, Uppsala University. |
| 2017 | 'Lern yerself dialect writing: The written representation of non-standard phonology.' Presented as an invited talk in the Language and Linguistics Research Seminar series, Edge Hill University. |
| 2016 | 'The phonology, diachrony and dialectology of Northern English T-to-R: corpora are not enough.' Presented as an invited talk at the 14th meeting of the French Phonology Network (Réseau Français de Phonologie), Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis. |
| 2016 | 'What does it take and mean for a phonological feature to be represented in dialect writing?' Presented at the 7th Northern Englishes Workshop, University of Edinburgh. [download a copy of the slides] |
| 2016 | 'Northern English T-to-R is not impossible (luckily).' Presented as an invited talk in the Linguistics Seminar Series, Newcastle University. |
| 2015 | 'Are there
impossible changes? θ > f but f θ.'
Presented as a poster at the Second Edinburgh
Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of
Edinburgh. |
| 2015 | 'Innovating the impossible: Northern English T-to-R.' Presented as an invited talk at the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds. |
| 2015 | 'Frequency effects don't support Usage-Based Phonology.' Presented as an invited talk in the Linguistics Seminar Series, University College London. |
| 2015 | 'Categorical frequency effects in historical phonology: formal phonology and multiple lexicalisation.' Presented at the Workshop on Historical Phonology and Phonological Theory at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden University. |
| 2014 |
'Palatalisation
can be quantity-sensitive: Dorsal Fricative
Assimilation in Liverpool English.' Accepted at
the Palatalisation
Conference, University of Tromsø/CASTL,
but thwarted by travel catastrophe; presented at
the P-Workshop,
University of Edinburgh [With Amanda Cardoso]. |
| 2014 |
'Liverpool Dialect
Literature: quantitative analysis and phonological
salience.' Presented as an invited talk at the International
Conference on Northern British English,
University of Rouen. [With Kevin Watson]. |
| 2014 | 'The origins of Northern English T-to-R: categorical frequency effects through multiple lexicalisation.' Presented at the Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh. |
| 2013 | 'Phonemicization vs. phonologization: voiced fricatives in Old English and Brythonic.' Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. [With Pavel Iosad]. |
| 2013 | 'Frequency effects are not incompatible with Formal Phonology: how exceptionless should we expect change to be?' Invited Speaker at the workshop on Diachronic Workings in Phonological Patterns at GLOW 36, University of Lund. |
| 2012 | 'Affricates are contour segments: evidence from morpheme-edge epenthesis in Serbo-Croat and English.' Presented at the twentieth Manchester Phonology Meeting fringe workshop on Segmental Architecture, Manchester. |
| 2012 | 'The strangeness of verhauchung: coda lenition-inhibition and the effect of phonological structure on the innovation of phonological change.' Presented at the Eighth Old World Conference in Phonology, Berlin. |
| 2011 | 'Ts, Hs, THs and Rs: categorical frequency effects in the phonology of English.' English Language Research Group, University of Edinburgh. |
| 2011 | 'Splitting "intervocalic" - the first steps.' Presented at SynFonIJA 4, Budapest. [With Katalin Balgone Berces]. |
| 2011 | 'Not another case of final obstruent voicing? Laryngeal Realism, Late Middle English and impossible phonological change.' Presented at the Eighth Old World Conference in Phonology, Marrakesh. [With Marleen Spaargaren]. [download a copy of the handout] |
| 2011 | 'Small but significant: English post-tonic pre-onset s-neutralisation as a systematic gap.' Presented as an invited talk at the University of Manchester |
| 2010 | 'How symmetrical are English vowels?' English Language Research Group, University of Edinburgh. |
| 2010 | 'Acquisitionism and hearer-bias in phonological change: why they must be wrong.' Presented as an invited talk to the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tromsø. |
| 2010 | 'T-to-R and the NSR in Northern English and Southern Scots.' Presented at the fourth Northern Englishes Workshop, University of Sheffield. [With Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan, Anders Holmberg, Warren Maguire & April McMahon]. |
| 2010 | 'A non-predictable template with subsegmental specification: diddificating truncation in Liverpool English.' Presented at the Seventh Old World Conference in Phonology, University of Nice. |
| 2010 | ''T-to-R' and the 'Northern Subject Rule': dialect convergence and divergence across the Anglo-Scottish border.' Presented at the Conference on Borders and Identities, Newcastle upon Tyne. [With Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan, Anders Holmberg, Warren Maguire & April McMahon]. |
| 2009 | 'Putting the fun into phonology? Practical and resource-based phonetics and phonology in intro-level courses.' Presented at the LAGB Student Committee / Subject Centre for LLAS Session on Teaching in Linguistics at the 2009 Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Edinburgh. |
| 2009 | 'T-to-R and the Northern Subject Rule: Introspection, Production and Variation.' Presented at the Seventh UK Language Variation and Change Conference, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. [With Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan, Anders Holmberg, Warren Maguire & April McMahon]. |
| 2009 | 'History and historical linguistics: two types of cognitive reconstruction?' Presented as an invited talk to Language and History Interdisciplinary Seminar, University of Oxford. [download a copy of the handout] |
| 2009 | 'The privative project: its history and basis.' Presented at the Sixth Old World Conference on Phonology Workshop on the Privative Project, University of Edinburgh. [With Bert Botma and John Anderson]. [download a copy of the handout] |
| 2008 | 'Butties from the chippy outside Sevvie: templatic phonology in Liverpool English.' Presented as an invited talk to the Bangor Linguistics Circle, Bangor University. [With Nicola Gandy]. |
| 2008 | 'Scouse diddification (or, how does 'hospital' become 'ozzie'?) Templatic phonology in Liverpool English.' Presented at the PAC Workshop 2008: Structure and Variation in English Phonology, University of Toulouse-le Mirail. [With Nicola Gandy]. |
| 2008 | 'History and historical linguistics: independence and connections.' Presented as an invited talk at the AHRC-HiSoN interdisciplinary Workshop on History and Linguistics, Linguistics and Historiography, University of Bristol. [download a copy of the handout] |
| 2008 | 'Writing Scouse right (Or: Ricing Scouse rice) How accurate is Scouse dialect literature?' Presented as an invited talk at the Celebrating Scouse event, University of Liverpool. |
| 2008 | 'Why Language Variation and Change needs Phonological Theory.' Presented as an invited talk in the special session on (Socio)linguistic Theory at the Third Northern Englishes Workshop, University of Salford. [download a copy of the handout] |
| 2007 | 'When and where does language change? Syntax, phonology, acquisition and diachrony.' Presented as an invited talk to the Cambridge University Linguistic Society, University of Cambridge. |
| 2007 | 'Diachronic tendencies in historical phonology: evidence for absolute principles or violable constraints? The case of "secondary contractions" in Northern English.' Presented at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Université du Québec à Montréal. |
| 2007 | 'Is word-frequency a factor in phonological demergers? The sociophonology of SQUARE and NURSE in Lancashire English' Presented at the Second International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Toulouse le Mirail. [With Will Barras & Graeme Trousdale]. [download a copy of the handout] |
| 2006 | 'Asymmetries in assimilation in English through the ages: new directions for the laryngeal phonology of English obstruents.' Presented at the Directions in English Language Studies conference, University of Manchester. [With Marleen Spaargaren]. |
| 2006 | 'Why everyone should be interested in Northern English "t-to-r".' Presented at the Northern Englishes Workshop, Lancaster University. [download a copy of the handout] |
| 2006 | 'Revisiting the Development of the Fricative Contrast in English; or ... when is an "f" not an "f" - and how did it become a "v"?' Presented as an invited talk in the Language and Linguistics Invited Speakers Programme, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. |
| 2006 | 'When is an "f" not an "f" - and how did it become a "v"? The diachronic description and development of fricatives in English.' Presented as an invited talk to the Centre for Linguistic Research, University of Aberdeen. |
| 2006 | 'An exception to the burst sound shift.' MILC 8. [download a copy of the abstract] |
| 2006 | 'Disagreeing with AGREE - sharing and subsegmental theory.' Presented as a poster at the Third Old World Conference in Phonology, ELTE and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. [download a copy of the handout] |
| 2005 | 'Segmental structure and phonological change: the irrelevance of acquisition.' Presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| 2005 | 'Scouse spelling? Sociolinguistic salience and Contemporary Humorous Localised Dialect Literature' Presented as an invited talk in the English Language seminar series, University of Liverpool. |
| 2005 | 'Variation in English accents and problems with panlectal generalisations: "the phonology of English" or "the phonologies of Englishes"?' Presented as an invited talk to the winter conference of the Linguistic Society of Korea, Korea University, Seoul. |
| 2005 | 'Spelling accents with sociolinguistic salience: Contemporary Humorous Localised Dialect Literature in Britain.' Presented as an invited talk to the winter conference of the English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Chosun University, Gwangju. |
| 2004 | 'Laryngeal inheritance and borrowing: a new view of the development of the English fricative "voicing" contrast.' Presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Vienna. |
| 2004 | 'The secret life of 'voicing' in fricatives.' Presented as an invited talk to the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tromsø. |
| 2004 | 'Influences in Liverpool English Koineisation.' Presented at the Symposium on the Influence of the Languages of Ireland and Scotland on Linguistic Varieties in Northern England, University of Aberdeen. [download a copy of the article which has superseded this] |
| 2004 | 'The rise of Optimality Theory in mid-twentieth century London.' Presented as an invited talk to the Linguistic Circle, University of Edinburgh. [download a copy of the handout] |
| 2004 | 'The (continuing) development of Scouse: language meets history, society and culture.' Presented as an invited talk at the Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Liverpool and Merseyside Studies, Liverpool John Moores University. [With Kevin Watson]. |
| 2003 | 'Geordie reetwriting and Scouse ricewriting: issues in the orthographic representation of non-reference varieties of English.' Presented at the Fourth UK Language Variation and Change Conference, University of Sheffield. |
| 2003 | 'Markedness and directionality in change: Old English fricatives and Inner-German stops.' Presented at the Autumn meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Oxford. |
| 2003 | 'Doing the impossible: voicing, aspiration and phonological change.' Presented at the XVIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. |
| 2003 | 'Old English fricatives and change in laryngeal specifications.' Poster presented at the Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting. |
| 2003 | 'Linguistic antipurism: contemporary non-standard English orthographies (or: what's the difference between Geordie and Scouse?).' Presented at the Conference on Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages, University of Bristol. |
| 2003 | 'When is a /t/ not a /t/? Obstruent laryngeal specifications and diachronic change.' Presented as an invited talk at a meeting of the Philological Society, Downing College , University of Cambridge. |
| 2003 | 'Laryngeal specifications in obstruents: evidence from segmental change.' Presented at the First Old World Conference in Phonology, University of Leiden . |
| 2003 | 'Should we degeminate the Second Sound Shift?' Presented at the Joint meeting of the Forum for Germanic Language Studies and the Society for Germanic Linguistics, King's College London. |
| 2002 | 'Another difference between prosody and melody: patterns in process inhibition.' Presented as an invited talk at the Ninth International Phonology Meeting, University of Vienna. |
| 2002 | 'Where did you get that [x]? The introduction of consonantal lenition into Liverpool English.' Presented at the Autumn meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, UMIST. |
| 2002 | 'Endogeny and exogeny - the start of Scouse (affrico-)spirantisation.' Presented at the Twelfth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Glasgow University. |
| 2002 | 'Liverpool English, visarga in pausa and the phonetics-phonology divide.' Presented at the Toulouse Conference on English Phonology,University of Toulouse le Mirail. [With Kevin Watson]. |
| 2002 | 'Visarga in pausa in Liverpool English.' Poster presented at the Tenth Manchester Phonology Meeting. [With Kevin Watson]. |
| 2002 | ' "t -> h" in Liverpool English. Or, when is a process not a process? Visiting Speakers Programme, Department of English Literary and Linguistic Studies, University of Newcastle. |
| 2001 | 'The phonological potential of domain-final /t/ in Liverpool English.' Presented at the Autumn meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Reading. [With Kevin Watson]. |
| 2001 | 'Process-inhibition in historical phonology.' Presented at the XVth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne. |
| 2000 | 'German ich-laut and ach-laut - noch einmal, schon wieder, again.' Presented at the meeting of the Forum for Germanic Language Studies, University of Manchester. |
| 2000 | 'Lenition in Liverpool English.' Presented at the Linguistics and the English Language conference, University of Toulouse le Mirail. |
| 2000 | 'When does synchrony become diachrony? The case of German dorsal fricatives.' Presented at the Eighth Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester. |
| 2000 | 'German dorsal fricatives revisited - problematic segments and part-time assimilation.' Presented at the Spring meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University College London. |
| 1999 | 'Prosodic weakness and phonological weakening: some problems of analysis.' Presented at the Inaugural Conference of the GDR Phonologie, University of Nice. |
| 1999 | 'Affrication and laryngeal specifications: diachronic evidence in phonology.' Presented at the Spring meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Manchester. |
| 1998 | 'I-language, E-language, phonology and change.' Durham Linguistics Colloquium series, University of Durham. |
| 1998 | 'Germanic lenitions and phonological explanation.' Poster presented at the Sixth Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester. |
| 1998 | 'Constraint creation and Gothic reduplication.' Presented at the Spring meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Lancaster. |
| 1997 | 'The nature of constraints in Optimality Theory.' Presented at the Sixth Post-Graduate Conference in Linguistics, University of Manchester. |
| 1997 | 'Is lenition naturally optimal?' Presented at the Post-Graduate Conference of the Centre for Research in Linguistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. |
| 1996 | 'If sounds don't change, what does?' Presented in the series: Language and Speech: Linguistic Theory and the Status of Phonology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. |
| 1996 | 'Does phonology change? Language, speech and representation.' Presented at the Fifth Post-Graduate Conference in Linguistics, University of Manchester. |
Conferences and workshops organised
| 2022 | Co-organiser of the third Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics Symposium, at the University of Edinburgh, on Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different? [website] |
| 2022 | Convenor and main organiser of the twenty-ninth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Second Language Phonology and Phonological Theory. [website] |
| 2021 | Coordinator of the Fifth Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh. [website] |
| 2021 | Convenor and main organiser of the twenty-eighth Manchester Phonology Meeting. [website] |
| 2019 | Coordinator of the Fourth Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh. [website] |
| 2019 | Co-organiser of the Fringe Workshop on Teaching Phonology: the State of the Art, associated with the twenty-seventh Manchester Phonology Meeting. [website] |
| 2019 | Convenor and
main organiser of the twenty-seventh Manchester
Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special
session entitled Is
there Lexically-Specific Phonology? [website] |
| 2018 | Co-organiser
of the workshop on the Foot in the Phonological History of
English at the 20th International
Conference on English Historical Linguistics,
University of Edinburgh. |
| 2018 | Convenor and
main organiser of the twenty-sixth Manchester
Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special
session entitled SPE
at 50: what remains? [website] |
| 2017 | Main organiser of the Fringe Workshop on Laryngeal Features in Historical Phonology, associated with the Third Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh. [website] |
| 2017 | Coordinator of the Third Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh. [website] |
| 2017 | Convenor and main organiser of the twenty-fifth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Typology and Phonological Theory. [website] |
| 2017 | Co-organiser of the 4th International Workshop on Sound Change, with the theme of Individuals, Communities, and Sound Change. University of Edinburgh. [website] |
| 2016 | Convenor and main organiser of the Twenty-fourth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Evidence in Phonology. [website] |
| 2016 | Co-organiser of the Seventh Northern Englishes Workshop, University of Edinburgh. [website] |
| 2015 | Organiser of a fringe workshop, associated with the Second Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology on Issues in the History of Historical Phonology. [website] |
| 2015 |
Co-organiser
of the Second
Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology,
University of Edinburgh. [website] |
| 2015 |
Convenor and
main organiser of the Twenty-third Manchester Phonology
Meeting and co-organiser of the special
session entitled Syllables.
[website] |
| 2014 | Convenor and main organiser of the Twenty-second Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Unsolved Problems in Phonology. [website] |
| 2014 | Main organiser of the Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh. [website] |
| 2013 | Convenor and main organiser of the Twenty-first Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Harmony in Phonology. [website] |
| 2012 | Convenor and main organiser of the Twentieth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Unsolved Problems in Phonology. [website] |
| 2012 | Co-organiser of a fringe workshop, associated with the Twentieth Manchester Phonology Meeting, on Segmental Architecture. [With Bert Botma]. [website] |
| 2011 | Convenor and main organiser of the Nineteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Contrast in Phonology. [website] |
| 2010 | Convenor and main organiser of the Eighteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Sociolinguistics, Variation and Phonology. [website] |
| 2009 | Local co-organiser of the 2009 Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Edinburgh. [The LAGB's 50th Anniversary Jubilee Meeting.] [website] |
| 2009 | Convenor and main organiser of the Seventeenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled The History of Phonological Theory. [website] |
| 2009 | Main organiser of the sixth Old World Conference in Phonology, University of Edinburgh. [website] |
| 2009 | Co-organiser of a workshop, associated with the sixth Old World Conference in Phonology, entitled The Privative Project: is it still worth Pursuing? [With Bert Botma]. [website] |
| 2008 | Convenor and main organiser of the Sixteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Phonology and the Mental Lexicon. [website] |
| 2007 | Member of the Scientific Committee organising the second International Conference on Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail. [With Philip Carr, Jacques Durand, Bas Aarts, Devyani Sharma and Graeme Trousdale]. |
| 2007 | Convenor and main organiser of the Fifteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Where is Allomorphy? [website] |
| 2006 | Convenor and main organiser of the Fourteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Fieldwork and Phonological Theory. [website] |
| 2005 | Co-organiser of the First International Conference on Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Edinburgh. [With Philip Carr, April McMahon, Heinz Giegerich, Nikolas Gisborne and Graeme Trousdale]. [website] |
| 2005 | Convenor and main organiser of the Thirteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled What is a Phonological Fact? [With Philip Carr and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero]. [website] |
| 2004 | Convenor and main organiser of the Twelfth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled Phonology and Loan-word Adaptation. [With Philip Carr and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero]. [website] |
| 2003 | Convenor and main organiser of the Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session on Historical Phonology and Phonological Theory. [With Nigel Vincent and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero]. [website] |
| 2003 | Co-organiser of the conference on Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages, University of Bristol. [With Nils Langer]. |
| 2002 | Co-organiser of the Toulouse Conference on English Phonology, University of Toulouse-le Mirail. [With Philip Carr]. |
| 2002 | Convenor and main organiser of the Tenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and co-organiser of the special session entitled The Acquisition of Phonology. [With Philip Carr and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero]. [website] |
| 2002 | Local organiser of the Spring meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Edge Hill College. |
| 2002 | Co-organiser of the Third NWCL Research Training Workshop with the theme Researching talk: principles, practice and problems in the collection and analysis of spoken language data at Edge Hill College. [With Jo Arthur]. |
| 2001 | Co-organiser of the Ninth Manchester Phonology Meeting and sole organiser of the special session entitled Phonology and Syntax - the Same or Different? [website] |
| 2000 | Co-organiser of the special session at the Eighth Manchester Phonology Meeting on Segmental Markedness and Syllabic Position. [With Wiebke Brockhaus and Norval Smith]. [website] |