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Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names (2017)
Journal Article
Baker, J. (2017). Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names. Early Medieval Europe, 25(4), 417-442. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12226

Old English sǣte names survive in documentary sources and place-names, and have been used in historical discourse as evidence for early and middle Anglo-Saxon socio-political organization. Earlier analyses, founded on incomplete datasets, have attemp... Read More about Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names.

What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation (2017)
Journal Article
Buckler, H., Goy, H., & Johnson, E. K. (2018). What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation. Journal of Phonetics, 66, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.004

In speech addressed to adults, words are seldom realized in their canonical, or citation, form. For example, the word ‘green’ in the phrase ‘green beans’ can often be realized as ‘greem’ due to English place assimilation, where word-final coronals ta... Read More about What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation.

J.M. Synge and the time of his life (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Collins, C. (2017, October). J.M. Synge and the time of his life. Presented at Irish Time?: Temporalities in Irish Literature and Culture, Dublin, Ireland

Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges (2017)
Journal Article
Perez Vallejos, E., Koene, A., Carter, C. J., Hunt, D., Woodard, C., Urquhart, L., …Statache, R. (in press). Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges. Philosophy && Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-017-0286-y

This article addresses the general ethical issues of accessing online personal data for research purposes. The authors discuss the practical aspects of online research with a specific case study that illustrates the ethical challenges encountered whe... Read More about Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges.

Reading collocations in an L2: do collocation processing benefits extend to non-adjacent collocations? (2017)
Journal Article
Schmitt, N., & Vilkaitė, L. (2019). Reading collocations in an L2: do collocation processing benefits extend to non-adjacent collocations?. Applied Linguistics, 40(2), 329–354. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amx030

Various studies have consistently shown that collocations are processed faster than matched control phrases, both in L1 and in L2. Most of these studies focused on adjacent collocations (e.g., provide information). However, research in corpus linguis... Read More about Reading collocations in an L2: do collocation processing benefits extend to non-adjacent collocations?.

Consolidating the Shakespeare canon 1640-1740 (2017)
Book Chapter
Kirwan, P. (2017). Consolidating the Shakespeare canon 1640-1740. In E. Depledge, & P. Kirwan (Eds.), Canonising Shakespeare: stationers and the book trade, 1640-1740. Cambridge University Press

Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, L., Mills, S., Paterson, L. L., Turner, G., & Coffey-Glover, L. (2017). Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships. Gender and Language, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.27916

This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices in Britain, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there ar... Read More about Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships.

Input matters: speed of word recognition in 2-year-olds exposed to multiple accents (2017)
Journal Article
Buckler, H., Oczak-Arsik, S., Siddiqui, N., & Johnson, E. K. (in press). Input matters: speed of word recognition in 2-year-olds exposed to multiple accents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.06.017

Although studies investigating language abilities in young children exposed to more than one language have become common, there is still surprisingly little research examining language development in children exposed to more than one accent. Here, we... Read More about Input matters: speed of word recognition in 2-year-olds exposed to multiple accents.

Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland (2017)
Book Chapter
Rye, E. (2017). Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland. In G. Akselberg, & I. Saerheim (Eds.), Scandinavian names and naming in the medieval North-Atlantic area: proceedings of the 44th symposium of NORNA in Caen 23–25 April 2014. NORNA-förlaget

This article discusses a method that has previously been used to quantify proportions of Scandinavian vocabulary relative to Old English-derived vocabulary in corpora of minor names from areas of Viking-Age Scandinavian settlement in England. This m... Read More about Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland.

“Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press (2017)
Journal Article
Brookes, G., Harvey, K., Chadborn, N., & Dening, T. (2018). “Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press. Social Semiotics, 28(3), 371-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2017.1345111

A recent (2016) Office for National Statistics report stated that dementia is now “the leading cause of death” in England and Wales. Ever fixated with the syndrome (an unfailingly newsworthy topic), the British press was quick to respond to the bulle... Read More about “Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press.

The noble identity of Gavin Douglas (2017)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2017). The noble identity of Gavin Douglas. In J. Martin, & E. Wingfield (Eds.), Premodern Scotland: literature and governance 1420-1587. Oxford University Press

This essay takes up Sally Mapstone’s contention that Scottish advice to princes was directed as much to magnates and their supporters as it ever was to the king, and applies it to Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. It considers the manner in which Douglas’s tr... Read More about The noble identity of Gavin Douglas.

William Lauder: The Speculum Principis in the Sixteenth Century (2017)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. (2017). William Lauder: The Speculum Principis in the Sixteenth Century. In Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587 (171-184). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787525.003.0012

This essay demonstrates the importance of the little-known poet William Lauder to the literary culture of mid-sixteenth-century Scotland and compares his work to that of his contemporaries, David Lyndsay and Richard Maitland. It argues that Lauder’s... Read More about William Lauder: The Speculum Principis in the Sixteenth Century.

Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)?: a transitivity analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C., Jaspal, R., & Nerlich, B. (in press). Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)?: a transitivity analysis. Health, https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459317715777

The increase of infections resistant to existing antimicrobial medicines has become a topic of concern for health professionals, policy makers and publics across the globe, however among the public there is a sense that this is an issue beyond their... Read More about Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)?: a transitivity analysis.

(Im)politeness and gender (2017)
Book Chapter
CHALUPNIK, M., Christie, C., & Mullany, L. (2017). (Im)politeness and gender. In J. Culpeper, M. Haugh, & D. Z. Kádár (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness (517-537). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7

This chapter maps out key developments in gender and (Im)politeness scholarship, focusing on theories and concepts which have advanced the field and contributed to its theoretical and methodological sophistication. The authors chronologically catalog... Read More about (Im)politeness and gender.