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2008. Varieties of English 1: The British Isles. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter [ed., with Bernd Kortmann]
2008. ’Received Pronunciation’, in Bernd Kortmann and Clive Upton (eds), Varieties of English 1: The British Isles. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 269-282
2006 ‘Modern Regional English’, in Lynda Mugglestone (ed.), The
Oxford History of the English Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2006. An Atlas of English Dialects. 2nd edn. London: Routledge [with
J.D.A.Widdowson].
2005. 'Modelling RP: a variationist case', in Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczky
and Joanna Przedlacka (eds), English Pronunciation Models: A Changing Scene.
Linguistic Insights Series. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 409-420 [with Lawrence
M. Davis and Charles L.Houck].
2004. A Handbook of Varieties of English: A Multimedia Reference Tool.
2 volumes plus CD-Rom. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter [ed., with Edgar W. Schneider,
Kate Burridge, Bernd Kortmann, and Rajend Mesthrie]
2004. ‘Received Pronunciation’, in Edgar W. Schneider, Kate Burridge,
Bernd Kortmann, and Rajend Mesthrie, and Clive Upton (eds). A Handbook of
Varieties of English: A Multimedia Reference Tool. 2 volumes plus CD-Rom.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
2004. The Oxford Rhyming Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press
[with Eben Upton]
2001. The Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English .
Oxford: Oxford University Press [with W.A. Kretzschmar Jr and Rafal Konopka]
2000. ‘Maintaining the Standard’, in Robert Penhallurick (ed.) Debating
Dialect: Essays on the Philosophy of Dialect Study, 66-83. Cardiff: University
of Wales Press
2000 on. Pronunciation system for British English, The Oxford English Dictionary
New Edition (publication online http://dictionary.oed.com)
1999. Dialectal Variation in English: Proceedings of the Harold Orton Centenary
Conference 1998. Leeds Studies in English New Series Vol. 30, 1999 [ed.,
with Katie Wales]
1999. Lexical Erosion in English Regional Dialects . NATCECT Occasional
Publications, No. 7. Sheffield: National Centre for English Cultural Tradition
[with J.D.A Widdowson]
1999. 'Sheffield dialect in the 1990s: revisiting the concept of NORMs', in
Paul Foulkes and Gerard Docherty (eds), Urban Voices: Accent Studies in
the British Isles , 72-89. London: Edward Arnold [with Jana Stoddart and
J.D.A. Widdowson]
1999. Pronunciation system, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English ,
10th edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press
1998. Pronunciation system, The New Oxford Dictionary of English .
Oxford: Clarendon Press
1997. Yorkshire Words Today. NATCECT Occasional Publications, No. 6.
Sheffield: Yorkshire Dialect Society and the National Centre for English Cultural
Tradition [with David Paynter and J.D.A. Widdowson]
1996. An Atlas of English Dialects . Oxford: Oxford University Press
[with J.D.A. Widdowson]
1995. 'Mixing and Fudging in Midland and Southern Dialects of England: the cup
and foot vowels', in Jack Windsor Lewis (ed), Studies in General and English
Phonetics: Essays in Honour of Professor J.D. O'Connor , 385-394. London:
Routledge
1995. Pronunciation system and pronunciations, The Concise Oxford Dictionary
of English , 9th edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Also COD CD-ROM.)
1994. Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar . London:
Routledge [with David Parry and J.D.A. Widdowson]
1993. Pronunciation system and pronunciations, The New Shorter Oxford English
Dictionary . Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Also NSOED CD-ROM.)
1987. Word Maps: A Dialect Atlas of England . London: Croom Helm, 1987
[with Stewart Sanderson and J.D.A. Widdowson]
Papers and articles
2004. 'Leeds 1966: Some early evidence of "new RP"?', Leeds Working
Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 10, 32-39 [with Lawrence M.Davis and
Charles L. Houck].
2001. Revisiting RP, in Malcolm Jones, (ed). Essays in Lore and Language:
Presented to John Widdowson on the Occasion of His Retirement, 351-368.
Sheffield: National Centre for English Cultural Tradition
2000. 'Sett out verry eairrly Wensdy: the Spelling and Grammar in the Lewis
and Clark Journals', American Speech 75.2, 137-48 [with Lawrence M.
Davis and Charles L. Houck]
2000. '[hat], [hæt], and all that', English Today 61 Vol. 16,
No. 1, 44-46 [with Edmund Weiner]
1999. 'The first SuRE moves: early steps towards a large dialect database',
in Clive Upton and Katie Wales (eds), Dialectal Variation in English: Proceedings
of the Harold Orton Centenary Conference 1998. Leeds Studies in English
Vol. 30 [with Paul Kerswill and Carmen Llamas]
1999. 'Dialectology into the Twenty-first Century: the surveying continues',
Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society Pt XCIX, Vol. XIX, 20-24
1999. 'Two Large-Scale and Long-Term Language Variation Surveys: a Retrospective
and a Plan', Cuadernos de Filología Inglesa 8. Variation and Linguistic
Change in English: Diachronic and Synchronic Studies , 291-304 [with Carmen
Llamas]
1999. Review of The Peacock Lincolnshire Word Books, 1884-1920 , Max Peacock
et al., edited by Eileen Elder (Scunthorpe Museum Society, 1997). Journal
of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. , n.p.
1998. 'Celebrating Variation: Harold Orton and Dialectology, 1898-1998', English
Today 56 Vol. 14, No. 4, 27-33 [with Katie Wales]
1997. 'The Question of Dialect Boundaries: The SED and the American Atlases',
in Alan Thomas (ed), Current Methods in Dialectology: Proceedings of the
Methods IX International Conference on Dialectology, Bangor, 1996 , 271-283.
Bangor: University of Wales Bangor [with Lawrence M. Davis and Charles L. Houck]
1997. Review of Speech Past and Present: Studies in English Dialectology
in Memory of Ossi Ihalainen , edited by Juhani Klemola, Merja Kytö,
and Matti Rissanen (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996). Neuphilologische
Mitteilungen 1 XCVIII 1997, 89-93
1994. Dialect Words: what are they, and what can we do with them?', Transactions
of the Yorkshire Dialect Society Pt XCIV, Vol. XVIII, 16-27. Reprinted
in Arnold Kellett and Ian Dewhirst (eds). 1997. A Century of Yorkshire Dialect
, 212-220. Otley: Smith Settle
1994. Lexis and Material Culture: Methodology and Misgivings', in Gunnel Melchers
and Nils-Lennart Johannesson (eds), Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis ,
Stockholm Studies in English LXXXIV. Nonstandard Varieties of Language:
Papers from the Stockholm Symposium, 11-13 April, 1991 , 186-197. Stockholm:
Almqvist and Wiksell International
1993. 'Design for the Dictionary of the Survey of English Dialects', in Wolfgang
Viereck (ed), Proceedings of the International Congress of Dialectologists,
Bamberg 29.7.-4.8.1990, Volume 2: Historical Dialectology and Linguistic
Change , 519-528. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag
1985. 'Solihull, A Note on a Placename Pronunciation', Lore and Language
4, No. 1 (January), 40-45
1983/4. 'Problems with accents: student comprehension of expatriate English
accents in Papua New Guinea', English Language Research Journal 4,
68-82 [with John Swan]
1980. 'A Slide-Tape Programme for Teaching Dictionary Skills', Guidelines
for Audio-Visual Aids: RELC Journal Supplement 4 (December), 82-88 [with
Nick Clarke]
1979. 'Meat-Cut Terms: a check-list', Lore and Language 2, No. 10 (January),
25-32
1975. 'The dialectologist and his social connections' Museums Journal
75, No. 3 (December), xxxvii-xl
1974. 'Language Butchered: back-slang in the Birmingham meat trade', Lore
and Language 2, No. 1 (July), 31-35
Forthcoming
Methods in Dialectology: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference. Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang [ed., with Barry Heselwood]
‘Maps for Non-Linguists’, in Alfred Lameli, Roland Kehrein, and Stefan Rabanus (eds), The Handbook of Language Mapping. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
‘Mind the Quality, Feel the Width: tolerance(s) in Standard English. Language Issues
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