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Related publications:
Kerswill, P. (2002) Models of linguistic change and diffusion: New evidence from dialect levelling in British English. Reading Working Papers in Linguistics 6: 187-216.
Kerswill, P. (2003) Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English. In D. Britain and J. Cheshire (eds.). Social dialectology. In honour of Peter Trudgill. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 223-243.
Torgersen, E. and Kerswill, P. (2004) Internal and external motivation in phonetic change: Dialect levelling outcomes for an English vowel shift. Journal of Sociolinguistics 8: 23-53.
Kerswill, P. and Williams, A. (2005) New towns and koineisation: linguistic and social correlates. Linguistics 43: 1023-1048.
Torgersen, E., Kerswill, P. and Fox, S. (2006) Ethnicity as a source of changes in the London vowel system. In F. Hinskens (ed.). Language Variation - European Perspectives. Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE3), Amsterdam, June 2005. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 249-263.
Kerswill, P., Torgersen, E. and Fox, S. (in press) Reversing 'drift': Innovation and diffusion in the London diphthong system. To appear in Language Variation and Change 20.
Cheshire, J., Fox, S., Kerswill, P. and Torgersen, E. (in press) Ethnicity, friendship network and social practices as the motor of dialect change: linguistic innovation in London. To appear in Sociolinguistica 22. Special issue on Dialect Sociology, edited by Alexandra Lenz and Klaus J. Mattheier.
Conference presentations:
Torgersen, E. and Kerswill, P. The processes of accent levelling and chain shifting in south-eastern British English, Paper presented at ICLaVE2, University of Uppsala, June 2003.
Torgersen, E. and Kerswill, P. Chain shifting and accent levelling in south-eastern British English, Paper presented at NWAVE32, University of Pennsylvania, October 2003.
Torgersen, E. and Kerswill, P. Outcomes of regional dialect levelling for an English vowel shift, Paper presented at SS15, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 2004.
Kerswill, P. and Torgersen, E. Ethinicity as a source of changes in the London vowel system, Paper presented at ICLaVE3, University of Amsterdam, June 2005.
Cheshire, J., Fox, S., Kerswill, P. and Torgersen, E. Reversing 'drift': changes in the London diphthong system, Paper presented at UKLVC5, University of Aberdeen, September 2005.
Kerswill, P., Torgersen, E., Fox, S. and Cheshire, S. Endogenous linguistic change in inner-London teenage speech as the generator of vowel innovations: Implications for models of innovation, levelling and diffusion, Paper presented at NWAV34, New York University, October 2005.
Kerswill, P., Torgersen, E., Fox, S. and Cheshire, S. Endogenous linguistic change in inner-London teenage speech as the generator of vowel innovations: Implications for models of innovation, levelling and diffusion, Poster presented at AVC workshop, UCL, March 2006.
Cheshire J. and Fox S. Invited presentation at English UK, London, May 2006.
Kerswill, P., Torgersen, E. and Fox, S. Endogenous linguistic change in inner-London teenage speech as the generator of innovations: Implications for models of innovation, levelling and diffusion, Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, Limerick, July 2006.
Cheshire, J. and Fox, S. A new look at was/were: the perspective from London, Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, Limerick, July 2006.
Torgersen, E. EAP lecture 2, September 2006.
Cheshire, J. and Fox S. New perspectives on was/were variation in London, Paper presented at NWAV35, Columbus OH, November 2006.
Kerswill, P., Torgersen, E. and Fox S. Innovation in Inner-London teenage speech, Paper presented at NWAV35, Columbus OH, November 2006.
Cheshire, J. and Fox, S. ‘This is me’ An innovation in waiting and other quotative use among adolescents in London, Paper presented at ICLaVE4, University of Cyprus, June 2007.
Torgersen, E., Kerswill, P. and Fox S. Phonological innovation in London teenage speech, Paper presented at ICLaVE4, University of Cyprus, June 2007.
Cheshire, J. and Fox, S. This is me, this is him: Quotative use among adolescents in London, Paper presented at ICLCE2, Université de Toulouse II - Le Mirail, June 2007.
Cheshire, J., Fox, S., Kerswill, P. and Torgersen, E. Friendship and Ethnicity in Contemporary London English, Paper presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Gothenburg, July 2007.
Britain, D., Cheshire, S. and Fox, S. Relatives from the South, Paper presented at UKLVC6, Lancaster University, September 2007.
Cheshire, J. and Fox, S. Contact-induced change? Variation in the use of the English relative clause among adolescents in London, Paper presented at the International workshop on Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in Contact Settings, Paris, September 2007.
Cheshire, J. and Fox, S. Innovation in the quotative system of London adolescents, Paper presented at NWAV 36, University of Pennsylvania, October 2007.
Kerswill, P., Torgersen, E. and Fox, S. Dialect levelling and dialect divergence in south-east England: the role of minority ethnic Englishes in phonetic innovation in London. Invited presentation given at the International Colloquium on Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations, Hamburg, 18–20 October 2007.
Kerswill, P., Torgersen, E.,
Fox, S. Phonological
innovation in London teen age speech: ethnicity as the driver of change
in a metropolis. Invited presentation given at the Oxford Postgraduate
Linguistics Seminar, 12th November 2007.
Newspaper and radio:
New Scientist pp 50-51 "This is London speaking" 3 December 2005
The Sunday Times "All raait! It's a new black-white lingo" 11 December 2005
Daily Star "It's new multi-ethnic lingo" 12 December 2005
Evening Standard "Why we is all talkin' like Ali G" 10 April 2006
The Independent "Jafaican and Tikkiny drown out the East End's Cockney twang" 11 April 2006
Daily Mail "'Jafaican' is wiping out inner-city English accents" 11 April 2006
East London Advertiser
The Guardian "Cor blimey it's the end of cockney" 12 April 2006
View London "Cor blimey it's the end of cockney" 12 April 2006
Aljazeera.net "Cor blimey it's the end of cockney" 14 April 2006
The Independent on Sunday, The Sunday Review pp 38-43 "From the mouths of teens" 5 November 2006
Lancaster University Press release 4 December 2006
Morecambe Today 5 December 2006
Capital Radio 11 April 2006
Talksport 11 April 2006
BBC Radio London 11 April 2006
LBC Radio 11 April 2006
BBC News Online
BBC Radio Cumbria 15 November 2006
BBC Radio Lancashire 15 November 2006
LBC Radio 4 December 2006
BBC Radio London 6 December 2006
Radio New Zealand 14 February 2007
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