David Britain

3.8k total citations
71 papers, 840 citations indexed

About

David Britain is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Britain has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 840 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Linguistics and Language, 36 papers in Language and Linguistics and 18 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in David Britain's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (50 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (21 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (17 papers). David Britain is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (50 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (21 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (17 papers). David Britain collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and New Zealand. David Britain's co-authors include Harald Clahsen, Martin Atkinson, Andrew Spencer, Andrew Radford, Peter Trudgill, Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, John Newman, Kazuko Matsumoto and Ross S. Purves and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Environmental Health Perspectives.

In The Last Decade

David Britain

63 papers receiving 662 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Britain United Kingdom 15 617 560 339 94 67 71 840
Eivind Torgersen United Kingdom 10 534 0.9× 409 0.7× 249 0.7× 43 0.5× 128 1.9× 21 689
Lauren Hall‐Lew United Kingdom 18 609 1.0× 299 0.5× 440 1.3× 111 1.2× 35 0.5× 54 773
Guy Bailey United States 17 943 1.5× 597 1.1× 387 1.1× 63 0.7× 48 0.7× 37 1.0k
Anthony J. Naro Brazil 14 644 1.0× 706 1.3× 324 1.0× 143 1.5× 73 1.1× 40 974
J. K. Chambers Canada 16 836 1.4× 565 1.0× 471 1.4× 96 1.0× 29 0.4× 44 991
Paul Kerswill United Kingdom 19 1.3k 2.1× 826 1.5× 740 2.2× 108 1.1× 67 1.0× 41 1.5k
Richard Cameron United States 11 381 0.6× 515 0.9× 196 0.6× 104 1.1× 68 1.0× 19 702
Dieter Kastovsky Austria 11 425 0.7× 603 1.1× 157 0.5× 81 0.9× 52 0.8× 32 719
Anna Siewierska United Kingdom 16 299 0.5× 761 1.4× 223 0.7× 221 2.4× 40 0.6× 55 864
Elly van Gelderen United States 18 441 0.7× 853 1.5× 198 0.6× 210 2.2× 29 0.4× 75 957

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Britain

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Britain, David, et al.. (2023). Revisiting areal and lexical diffusion: the case of Viennese Monophthongization in Austria’s traditional dialects. Linguistics. 61(4). 915–957. 2 indexed citations
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Campoy, Juan Manuel Hernández & David Britain. (2023). 500 Years of Past Be in East Anglia: A Variationist Investigation. Roczniki Humanistyczne. 71(6sp). 103–123. 1 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Kazuko & David Britain. (2022). The vernacularity of Palauan Japanese. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2022(273). 103–144. 1 indexed citations
4.
Cahill, Lynne, et al.. (2020). Sussex by the sea. English Today. 36(3). 31–39. 3 indexed citations
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Leemann, Adrian, et al.. (2019). Investigating the FOOT-STRUT distinction in Northern Englishes using crowdsourced data. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1337–1341. 4 indexed citations
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Britain, David, et al.. (2017). Evidence of sound change in British English crowdsourced using the 'English Dialects App'. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 2 indexed citations
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Leemann, Adrian, Marie-José Kolly, & David Britain. (2017). The English Dialects App: The creation of a crowdsourced dialect corpus. Ampersand. 5. 1–17. 42 indexed citations
8.
Britain, David. (2016). Up, app and away? Social dialectology and the use of smartphone technology as a data collection strategy. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 2 indexed citations
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Leemann, Adrian, Marie-José Kolly, & David Britain. (2016). English Dialect App. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 1 indexed citations
10.
Britain, David, et al.. (2016). English in las Islas de los Garbanzos: developing a multi-locality corpus of Micronesian Englishes. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 1 indexed citations
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Britain, David. (2014). Linguistic Diffusion and the social heterogeneity of space and mobility. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 2 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Kazuko & David Britain. (2009). The role of social networks in understanding language maintenance and shift in post-colonial multilingual communities — The case of the Republic of Palau in the Western Pacific. 1 indexed citations
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Radford, Andrew, Martin Atkinson, David Britain, Harald Clahsen, & Andrew Spencer. (2009). Linguistics An Introduction , Second Edition. Open Access at Essex (University of Essex). 8 indexed citations
14.
Radford, Andrew, Martin Atkinson, David Britain, Harald Clahsen, & Andrew Spencer. (2009). Linguistics: List of tables. 136(4). 389–404. 13 indexed citations
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Britain, David. (2008). On the wrong track?: a non-standard history of non-standard /au/ in English. 3 indexed citations
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Britain, David & Sue Fox. (2008). Vernacular universals and the regularisation of hiatus resolution. 1 indexed citations
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Felser, Claudia & David Britain. (2007). Deconstructing what with absolutes. 2 indexed citations
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Britain, David & Peter Trudgill. (2005). New dialect formation and contact-induced reallocation: three case studies from the english fens. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 183–209. 17 indexed citations
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Britain, David. (2002). The British History of New Zealand English?. 1 indexed citations
20.
Britain, David. (1997). Dialect contact and phonological reallocation: “Canadian Raising” in the English Fens. Language in Society. 26(1). 15–46. 48 indexed citations

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