Warren Maguire - Publications
Maguire, Warren. 2020. Language and Dialect Contact in Ireland: The Phonological Origins of Mid-Ulster English. Edinburgh University Press.

Maguire, Warren. 2020. The origins of owld in Scots. To appear in Joan Beal, Ranjan Sen, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza & Christine Wallis (eds.) The Eighteenth-century English Phonology Database (ECEP), 2020 Special Issue of English Language and Linguistics.

Honeybone, Patrick & Warren Maguire (eds.). 2020. Dialect Writing and the North of England. Edinburgh University Press.

Maguire, Warren. 2020. Phonological analysis of early 19th century Tyneside dialect literature: Thomas Wilson's 'The Pitman's Pay'. In Patrick Honeybone & Warren Maguire (eds.) Dialect Writing and the North of England. Edinburgh University Press.

Maguire, Warren. 2020. LAS3 Revisited. To appear in Joanna Kopaczyk and Robert McColl Millar (eds.) Language on the Move across Contexts and Communities, Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster Triennial Meeting, Glasgow 2018. Aberdeen: Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ireland.

Molineaux Ress, Benjamin, Joanna Kopaczyk, Rhona Alcorn, Warren Maguire, Vasilis Karaiskos & Bettelou Los. 2020. Phonotactics, graphotactics and contrast. To appear in English Language and Linguistics.​

Heggarty, Paul, Aviva Shimelman, Giovanni Abete, Cormac Anderson, Scott Sadowsky, Ludger Paschen, Warren Maguire, Lechoslaw Jocz, María José Aninao, Laura Wägerle, Darja Dërmaku-Appelganz, Ariel Pheula do Couto e Silva, Lewis C. Lawyer, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, Mary Walworth, Jan Michalsky, Ezequiel Koile, Jakob Runge & Hans-Jörg Bibiko. Forthcoming. Sound Comparisons:  A new resource for exploring phonetic diversity across language families of the world. In: Calhoun, S., P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (eds) Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

Maguire, Warren, Rhona Alcorn, Benjamin Molineaux Ress, Joanna Kopaczyk, Vasilis Karaiskos & Bettelou Los. 2019. Charting the rise and demise of a phonotactically motivated change in Scots. Folia Linguistica Historica 40(1), 37-59.

Molineaux Ress, Benjamin, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilis Karaiskos & Bettelous Los. 2019. Early spelling evidence for Scots L-vocalisation. In Rhona Alcorn, Bettelou Los, Joanna Kopaczyk & Benjamin Molineaux Ress (eds.) Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age, 61-87. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Maguire, Warren. 2018. The origins of epenthesis in liquid+sonorant clusters in Mid-Ulster EnglishTransactions of the Philological Society 116(3), 484-508.

Kopaczyk, Joanna, Benjamin Molineaux Ress, Vasilis Karaiskos, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn & Bettelou Los. 2018. Towards a grapho-phonologically parsed corpus of medieval Scots: Database design and technical solutions. Corpora 13(2), 255-269.

Maguire, Warren. 2017. Variation and change in the realisation of /r/ in an isolated Northumbrian dialect. In Chris Montgomery & Emma Moore (eds.) A Sense of Place: Studies in Language and Region, 87-103. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Maguire, Warren. 2017. Epenthesis in liquid+consonant clusters in Scots. In Janet Cruickshank & Robert McColl Millar (eds.) Before the Storm: Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster Triennial Meeting, Ayr 2015. Aberdeen: Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ireland.

Alcorn, Rhona, Ben Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Vasilis Karaiskos, Bettelou Los and Warren Maguire. 2017. The emergence of Scots: Clues from Germanic *a reflexes.
In Janet Cruickshank & Robert McColl Millar (eds.) Before the Storm: Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster Triennial Meeting, Ayr 2015. Aberdeen: Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ireland.

Maguire, Warren. 2016. Morphosyntactic variation in English across the world: The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English. English Today 32(4), 70-72.

Molineaux, Ben, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilis Karaiskos and Bettelou Los. 2016. Tracing L-vocalisation in early Scots. Papers in Historical Phonology 1, 187-217.

Maguire, Warren. 2016. Pre-R Dentalisation in ScotlandEnglish Language and Linguistics 20(2), 315-339.


Maguire, Warren. 2015. The north above the North: Scotland and Northern English. In Raymond Hickey (ed.) Researching Northern English, 437-57. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Maguire, Warren. 2015. Using electronic corpora for historical phonology. In Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons (eds.) The Handbook of Historical Phonology, 164-72. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Maguire, Warren. 2014. Review of Grammatical Variation in British English by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. Language 90(4), 983-6.

Clark, Lynn, Warren Maguire and Kevin Watson (eds.). 2013. English Language and Linguistics 17(2), Special Issue: Phonological Mergers in English. Including “Introduction: the meaning of ‘merger’” (229-39).

Buchstaller, Isabelle, Karen Corrigan, Anders Holmberg, Patrick Honeybone and Warren Maguire. 2013. T-to-R and the Northern Subject Rule: Questionnaire-based structural, geo- and sociolinguistics. English Language and Linguistics 17(1), 85-128.

McMahon, April and Warren Maguire. 2013. Quantifying phonetic similarity between accents of English: the case of rhoticity. In Manfred Krug and Julia Schlüter (eds.) Research Methods in Language Variation and Change, 421-3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Maguire, Warren. 2012. English and Scots in Scotland. In Raymond Hickey (ed.) Areal Features of the Anglophone World, 53-77. Berlin/Boston: Mouton de Gruyter.

Maguire, Warren. 2012. Pre-R Dentalisation in Northern England. English Language and Linguistics 16(3), 361-84.

Maguire, Warren. 2012. Mapping The Existing Phonology of English Dialects. Dialectologia et Geolinguistica 20, 84-107.

Maguire, Warren. 2011. Review of Voices of the UK: Accents and Dialects of English (London: The British Library Board). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 41(2), 247-8.

Maguire, Warren and April McMahon (eds.). 2011. Analysing Variation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Maguire, Warren and April McMahon. 2011. Quantifying relations between dialects. In Warren Maguire and April McMahon (eds.) Analysing Variation in English, 93-120. Cambridge University Press.

McMahon, April and Warren Maguire. 2011. Quantitative historical dialectology. In David Denison and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (eds.) Analysing Older English, 140-58. Cambridge University Press.

Heggarty, Paul, April McMahon and Warren Maguire. 2010. Splits or waves? Trees or webs? How divergence measures and network analysis can unravel language histories. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B) 365, 3829-43.

Maguire, Warren. 2010. Review of Anthony Grant and Clive Grey (eds.) The Mersey Sound: Liverpool’s Language, People and Places (Ormskirk: Open House). English World-wide 31(2), 226-30.

Maguire, Warren, April McMahon, Paul Heggarty and Dan Dediu. 2010. The past, present and future of English dialects: Quantifying convergence, divergence and dynamic equilibrium. Language Variation and Change 22(1), 1-36.

Maguire, Warren. 2008. Quantifying dialect similarity by comparison of the lexical distribution of phonemes. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 2(1-2), 261-77.

Moisl, Hermann and Warren Maguire. 2008. Identifying the Main Determinants of Phonetic Variation in the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 15(1), 46-69.

McMahon, April, Paul Heggarty, Rob McMahon and Warren Maguire. 2007. The Sound Patterns of Englishes: Representing Phonetic Similarity. English Language and Linguistics 2(1), 113-42.

Allen, Will, Joan Beal, Karen Corrigan, Warren Maguire and Hermann Moisl. 2006. A Linguistic ‘Time Capsule’: the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. In Joan Beal, Karen Corrigan and Hermann Moisl (eds.) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Vol. 2: Diachronic Databases, 16-48. Palgrave Macmillan.

Moisl, Hermann, Warren Maguire and Will Allen. 2006. Phonetic Variation in Tyneside: Exploratory Multivariate Analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. In Frans Hinskens (ed.) Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005. 127-41. John Benjamins.

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