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David Britain

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1992

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Affiliations

University of Essex(Current)

University of Bern

University of Zurich

Victoria University of Wellington

David Britain is an author at University of Essex specializing in language studies, language variation, and linguistics.

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LanguageLinguisticsLanguage VariationSociolinguisticsMultilingualismHistorical LinguisticsLinguistic AnthropologyPhoneticsPhonologyLanguage Diversity

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1992–2020

27

Publications

27

Diffusion, levelling, simplification and reallocation in past tense BE in the English Fens

David Britain · Journal of Sociolinguistics · 2002 · 256 citations

Language Contact, Linguistic Anthropology, Variety (Linguistics) +22

Linguistic change in intonation: The use of high rising terminals in New Zealand English

David Britain · Language Variation and Change · 1992 · 214 citations

Language Policy, Language Contact, Multilingualism +21

Dialect contact and phonological reallocation: “Canadian Raising” in the English Fens

David Britain · Language in Society · 1997 · 208 citations

Language Contact, Variety (Linguistics), Speech Articulation +21

Migration, new‐dialect formation and sociolinguistic refunctionalisation: <i>reallocation</i> as an outcome of dialect contact

David Britain, Peter Trudgill · Transactions of the Philological Society · 1999 · 120 citations · Full text

Language Policy, Language Contact, New‐dialect Formation +20

The English Dialects App: The creation of a crowdsourced dialect corpus

Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, David Britain · Ampersand · 2017 · 104 citations · Full text

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