Dom Watt: publications

books

Llamas, C. & Watt, D. (2010). Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Hughes, A., Trudgill, P. & Watt, D. (2005). English Accents and Dialects: an Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, 4th edition. London: Hodder Arnold/New York: Oxford University Press.

journal articles, conference proceedings

Docherty, G.J., Watt, D., Llamas, C., Hall, D. & Nycz, J. (2011). Variation in Voice Onset Time along the Scottish-English border. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 2011, pp. 591-594.
Fecher, N. & Watt, D. (2011). Speaking under cover: the effect of face-concealing garments on spectral properties of fricatives. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 2011, pp. 663-666.
Llamas, C., Watt, D., French, P. & Roberts, L. (2011). Effects of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule on vowel quantity in Tyneside English. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 2011, pp. 1282-1285.
Watt, D. & Fabricius, A.H. (2011). A measure of variable planar locations anchored on the centroid of the vowel space: a sociophonetic research tool. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 2011, pp. 2102-2105.
Watt, D., Llamas, C. & Johnson, D.E. (2010). Levels of linguistic accommodation across a national border. Journal of English Linguistics 38(3): 270-289.
Fabricius, A., Watt, D. & Johnson, D.E. (2009). A comparison of three speaker-intrinsic vowel formant frequency normalization algorithms for sociophonetics. Language Variation and Change 21(3): 413-435.
Llamas, C., Watt, D. & Johnson, D.E. (2009). Linguistic accommodation and the salience of national identity markers in a border town. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 28(4): 381-407.
Llamas, C., Harrison, P., Donnelly, D. & Watt, D. (2009). Effects of different types of face coverings on speech acoustics and intelligibility. York Papers in Linguistics (Series 2) 9: 80-104.
Watt, D. & Yurkova, J. (2007). Voice Onset Time and the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Aberdeen English. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, August 2007, pp. 1521-1524.
Foulkes, P., Docherty, G.J. & Watt, D. (2005). Phonological variation in child-directed speech. Language 81(1): 177-206.
Watt, D. & Allen, W. (2003). Illustrations of the IPA: Tyneside English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33(2): 267-271.
Watt, D., Docherty, G.J., & Foulkes, P. (2003). First accent acquisition: a study of phonetic variation in child-directed speech. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, August 2003, pp. 1959-1962.
Watt, D. & Fabricius, A. (2003). Evaluation of a technique for improving the mapping of multiple speakers' vowel spaces in the F1~F2 plane. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics & Phonetics 9: 159-173.
Watt, D. (2002). 'I don't speak with a Geordie accent, I speak, like, the Northern accent': contact-induced levelling in the Tyneside vowel system. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6(1): 44-63.
Foulkes, P., Docherty, G.J. & Watt, D. (2001). The emergence of structured variation. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 7(3): 67-84.
Watt, D. & Tillotson, J. (2001). A spectrographic analysis of vowel fronting in Bradford English. English World-Wide 22(2): 269-302.
Watt, D. (2000). Phonetic parallels between the close-mid vowels of Tyneside English: are they internally or externally motivated? Language Variation and Change 12(1): 69-101.
Watt, D. & Ingham, C. (2000). Durational evidence of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Berwick English. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics & Phonetics 8: 205-228.
Foulkes, P., Docherty, G.J. & Watt, D. (1999). Tracking the emergence of sociophonetic variation. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, Berkeley, August 1999, pp. 1625-1628.
Foulkes, P., Docherty, G. & Watt, D. (1999). Tracking the emergence of structured variation: realisations of (t) by Newcastle children. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics & Phonetics 7: 1-25.
Watt, D. (1999). Phonetic variation in two Tyneside vowels: levelling in lockstep. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, Berkeley, August 1999. pp. 1621-1624.
Watt, D. & Tillotson, J. (1999). A spectrographic analysis of vowel fronting in Bradford English. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics & Phonetics 7: 206-234.
Watt, D. (1998). One vowel short: the (reported) merger of NURSE and NORTH in Tyneside English. In Paradis, C., Vincent, D., Deshaies, D. & Laforest, M. (eds.). Papers in Sociolinguistics: NWAVE-26 à l'Université Laval. Québec: Éditions Nota bene. pp. 149-158.
Watt, D. (1996). Out of the frying pan into the fire: remerger of Tyneside (3)? Newcastle & Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 4: 299-314.

book chapters, encyclopaedia entries

Watt, D. (in press). Research methods in speech acoustics. In Jones, M.J. & Knight, R.-A. (eds.). The Continuum Companion to Phonetics. London: Continuum.
Watt, D. (in press). Sociolinguistic variation in vowels. In Ball, M.J. & Gibbon, F. (eds.). Handbook of Vowels and Vowel Disorders. Hove: Psychology Press.
Watt, D., Fabricius, A. & Kendall, T. (2010). More on vowels: plotting and normalization. In Di Paolo, M. & Yaeger-Dror, M. (eds.). Sociophonetics: A Student’s Guide. London: Routledge, pp. 107-118.
Foulkes, P., Scobbie, J. & Watt, D. (2010). Sociophonetics. In Hardcastle, W., Laver, J. & Gibbon, F. (eds.). The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, 2nd edn. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 703-754.
Watt, D. (2010). The identification of the individual through speech. In Llamas, D. & Watt, D. (eds.). Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 76-85.
Llamas, C. & Watt, D. (2010). Introduction. In Llamas, C. & Watt, D. (eds.). Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-5.
Watt, D. (2009). The linguistic variable. In Chapman, S. & Routledge, C. (eds.). Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 119-120.
Watt, D. (2009). The phoneme. In Chapman, S. & Routledge, C. (eds.). Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 156-157.
Watt, D. (2009). Political correctness. In Chapman, S. & Routledge, C. (eds.). Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 161-162.
Hughes, A., Trudgill, P. & Watt, D. (2009). Regional accent variation (reprint of Chapter 4 of Hughes, Trudgill & Watt 2005). In Griffiths, P., Merrison, A.J. & Bloomer, A. (eds.). Language in Use: A Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 115-127.
Altendorf, U. & Watt, D. (2008). The dialects in the south of England: phonology. In Kortmann, B. & Upton, C. (eds.). Varieties of English 1: the British Isles. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 194-222.
Watt, D. (2007). Variation and the variable. In Llamas, C., Stockwell, P. & Mullany, L. (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge. pp. 3-11.
Docherty, G.J., Foulkes, P., Tillotson, J., & Watt, D. (2006). On the scope of phonological learning: issues arising from socially structured variation. In Goldstein, L., Whalen, D.H. & Best, C.T., (eds.). Laboratory Phonology 8. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 393-421.
Watt, D. & Smith, J. (2005). Language change. In Ball, M. (ed.). Clinical Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 101-119.
Watt, D. (2005). Lesley Milroy. In Chapman, S. & Routledge, C. (eds.). Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 195-197.
Watt, D. (2005). William Labov. In Chapman, S. & Routledge, C. (eds.). Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 172-175.
Docherty, G.J. & Watt, D. (2001). Chain shifts. In Mesthrie, R. (ed.) The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: Pergamon (Elsevier Science). pp. 303-307.
Watt, D. (1999). Regional language. In Bartsch-Parker, E., Burgen, S., Crowe, R., O Maolalaigh, R. & Watt, D. The Lonely Planet British Phrasebook. Hawthorn, Victoria: Lonely Planet Guides, Ltd. pp. 183-228.
Watt, D. & Milroy, L. (1999). Variation in three Tyneside vowels: is this dialect levelling? In Docherty, G.J. & Foulkes, P. (eds.) Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles. London: Arnold. pp. 25-46.

book reviews

Watt, D. (2009). Review of Auer, P., Hinskens, F. & Kerswill, P. (2005, eds.), 'Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). International Journal of the Sociology of Language 196/197: 215-224.
Watt, D. (2008). Review of Hinskens, F. (2006, ed.), 'Language Variation - European Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005 (Studies in Language Variation 1)' (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins). Journal of Sociolinguistics 12(1): 141-146.
Watt, D. (2005). Review of van Leyden, K. (2004), 'Prosodic Characteristics of Orkney and Shetland Dialects: an Experimental Approach' (Utrecht: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap (LOT)). Scottish Language 24: 78-81.
Watt, D. (2003). Review of Carr, P. (1999), 'English Phonetics and Phonology: an Introduction' (Oxford: Blackwell). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33(2): 244-246.
Watt, D. (2003). Review of Jones, C. (2002), 'The English language in Scotland: an introduction to Scots' (East Linton: Tuckwell Press). Aberdeen University Review 209: 45-46.
Watt, D. (2001). Review of Ladefoged, P. (2000), 'Vowels and consonants: an introduction to the sounds of languages' (Oxford: Blackwell). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 31(2): 269-273.
Watt, D. (2001). Review of Price, G. (2000), 'Languages in Britain and Ireland' (Oxford: Blackwell). LinguistList 12-2320.
Watt, D. (1999). Review of Lippi-Green, R. (1997), 'English with an accent: language, ideology and discrimination in the United States' (London: Routledge). International Journal of Bilingualism 3(4): 434-439.

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