Publications

In press

  • Foulkes, P. Exploring social-indexical variation: a long past but a short history. To appear 2010 in Laboratory Phonology. [pre-print PDF]
  • Foulkes, P., Docherty, G.J. & Jones, M.J. Analysing stops. To appear 2010 in Di Paolo, M. & Yaeger-Dror, M. Sociophonetics: a student’s guide. London: Routledge.
  • Foulkes, P, Docherty, G.J., Khattab, G. & Yaeger-Dror, M. Sound judgements: perception of indexical features in children’s speech. To appear 2010 in Preston, D. & Niedzielski, N. (ed.) A Reader in Sociophonetics. Berlin: de Gruyter. [pre-print PDF]
  • Foulkes, P., Scobbie, J.M. & Watt, D.J.L. Sociophonetics. To appear 2010 in Hardcastle, W., Laver, J. & Gibbon, F. (eds.) Handbook of Phonetic Sciences (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell. [pre-print PDF]

2008

  • Haddican, W. & Foulkes, P. (2008) Mid vowel raising and second vowel deletion in Oiartzun Basque. In Artiagoitia, X. &. Lakarra, J.A. (eds.) Gramatika Jaietan Patxi Goenagaren Omenez. Bilbo/Bilbao: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. pp. 363-375. [pre-print PDF]

2007

  • Clark, J. & Foulkes, P. (2007) Identification of voices in disguised speech. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 14(2), 195-221. [PDF]
  • Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G.J. (2007) Phonological variation in England. In Britain, D. (ed.) Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 52-74. [pre-print PDF]

2006

  • Blatchford, H. & Foulkes, P. (2006) Identification of voices in shouting. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 13, 241-254. [PDF]
  • Docherty, G.J., Foulkes, P., Tillotson, J. & Watt, D.J.L. (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.
  • Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G.J. (2006) The social life of phonetics and phonology. Journal of Phonetics 34, 409-438. [pre-print PDF]
  • Foulkes, P. (2006) Phonological variation: a global perspective. In Aarts, B. & McMahon, A.M.S. (eds.) Handbook of English Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 625-669. [pre-print PDF]

2005

  • Foulkes, P., Docherty, G.J. & Watt, D.J.L. (2005) Phonological variation in child directed speech. Language 81, 177-206. [PDF]
  • Foulkes, P. (2005) Sociophonetics. In Brown, K. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier Press. pp. 495-500. [PDF]
  • Docherty, G.J. & Foulkes, P. (2005) Glottal variants of (t) in the Tyneside variety of English: an acoustic profiling study. In Hardcastle, W & Mackenzie Beck, J. (eds.) A Figure of Speech – a Festschrift for John Laver. London: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 173-199.

2004

2003

  • Foulkes, P. (2003) Fieldwork for studies of phonological variation. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 211-214. Universitat Autonomá de Barcelona. [PDF]
  • Watt, D.J.L., Docherty, G.J., & Foulkes P. (2003) First accent acquisition: a study of phonetic variation in child-directed speech. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1959-1962. Universitat Autonomá de Barcelona. [PDF]
  • Foulkes, P. (2003) Forensic phonetics. emagazine 19, February 2003.

2002

  • Docherty, G.J., Foulkes, P., Dodd, B. & Milroy, L. (2002) The Emergence of Structured Variation in the Speech of Tyneside Infants. Final report to the United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council, grant R000 237417. [PDF]
  • Foulkes, P. (2002) Current trends in British sociophonetics. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 8.3 - A Selection of Papers from NWAV 30, 75-86. [PDF]

2001

  • Docherty, G.J. & Foulkes, P. (2001) Variation in (r) production: instrumental perspectives. ‘R-atics. Sociolinguistic, Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics of /r/. Etudes & Travaux 4. Free University of Brussels, 173-184.
  • Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G.J. (2001) Variation and change in British English (r). ‘R-atics. Sociolinguistic, Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics of /r/. Etudes & Travaux 4. Free University of Brussels, 27-44.
  • Foulkes, P., Docherty, G.J. & Watt, D.J.L. (2001) The emergence of structured variation. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 7.3 - A Selection of Papers from NWAV 29, 67-84. [PDF]
  • Foulkes, P. & French, J.P. (2001) Forensic phonetics and sociolinguistics. In Mesthrie, R. (ed.) Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: Elsevier Press. pp. 329-332. [PDF]

2000

1999

  • Docherty, G.J. & Foulkes, P. (1999) Newcastle upon Tyne and Derby: instrumental phonetics and variationist studies. In Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G.J. (eds.) Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles. London: Arnold. pp. 47-71.
  • Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G.J. (1999) Urban Voices: Overview. In Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G.J. (eds.) Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles. London: Edward Arnold. pp. 1-24.
  • Foulkes, P., Docherty, G.J. & Watt, D.J.L. (1999) Tracking the emergence of sociophonetic variation in 2 to 4 year olds. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 7, 1-25. [PDF]
  • Milroy, L., Milroy, J., Docherty, G.J., Foulkes, P.  & Walshaw, D. (1999) Phonological variation and change in contemporary English: evidence from Newcastle upon Tyne and Derby. In Conde Silvestre, J.C. & Hernandez-Campoy, J.M. (eds.) Variation and Linguistic Change in English. University of Murcia. pp. 35-46. [PDF]
  • Docherty, G.J. & Foulkes, P. (1999) Sociophonetic variation in ‘glottals’ in Newcastle English. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1037-1040. University of California, Berkeley. [PDF]
  • Foulkes, P., Docherty, G.J. & Watt, D.J.L. (1999) Tracking the emergence of sociophonetic variation in 2 to 4 year olds. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1625-1628. University of California, Berkeley. [PDF]

1997

  • Docherty, G.J., Foulkes, P., Milroy, J., Milroy, L. & Walshaw, D. (1997) Descriptive adequacy in phonology: a variationist perspective. Journal of Linguistics 33, 275-310. [PDF]
  • Foulkes, P. (1997a) Historical laboratory phonology: investigating /p/ > /f/ > /h/ changes. Language and Speech 40, 249-276. [PDF]
  • Foulkes, P. (1997b) English [r]-sandhi - a sociolinguistic perspective. Histoire, Epistémologie, Langage 19, 73-96, 1997. [Also in Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 6, 18-39, 1998]. [PDF]
  • Foulkes, P. (1997c) Rule inversion in a British English dialect - a sociolinguistic investigation of [r]-sandhi in Newcastle upon Tyne. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 4(1) - A Selection of Papers from NWAV 25, 259-270.

1996

  • Docherty, G.J. & Foulkes, P. (1996) A corpus-based account of variation in the realisation of 'released' /t/ in English. Proceedings of the Speech Science and Technology 96 Conference, 157-162. Flinders University, Adelaide.

1995

  • McMahon, A.M.S. & Foulkes, P. (1995) Sound change, phonological rules, and Articulatory Phonology. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 9, 1-20.
  • Docherty, G.J. & Foulkes, P. (1995) Acoustic profiling of glottal and glottalised variants of English stops. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 1, 350-353. University of Stockholm.
  • Docherty, G.J., Foulkes, P., Milroy, J., Milroy, L. & Oxley, P. (1995) Conversational and phonological factors governing the 'final release rule' in Tyneside English. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 3, 692-695. University of Stockholm.

1994

  • McMahon, A.M.S., Foulkes, P. & Tollfree, L.F. (1994) Gestural representation and Lexical Phonology. Phonology 11, 277-316. [PDF]