Paul Kerswill

5.7k total citations
41 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Paul Kerswill is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Kerswill has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Linguistics and Language, 22 papers in Language and Linguistics and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Paul Kerswill's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (36 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (22 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (16 papers). Paul Kerswill is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (36 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (22 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (16 papers). Paul Kerswill collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, New Zealand and Germany. Paul Kerswill's co-authors include Ann Williams, Eivind Torgersen, Jenny Cheshire, Sue Fox, Susan Wright, Susan Patricia Fox, Ruth Wodak, Frans Hinskens, Barbara Johnstone and Peter Auer and has published in prestigious journals such as Brain Research, Molecular Biology of the Cell and Language.

In The Last Decade

Paul Kerswill

39 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Kerswill United Kingdom 19 1.3k 826 740 108 67 41 1.5k
Charles Boberg Canada 17 1.7k 1.3× 827 1.0× 1.3k 1.7× 240 2.2× 50 0.7× 35 1.9k
J. K. Chambers Canada 16 836 0.6× 565 0.7× 471 0.6× 96 0.9× 29 0.4× 44 991
Guy Bailey United States 17 943 0.7× 597 0.7× 387 0.5× 63 0.6× 48 0.7× 37 1.0k
Gregory R. Guy United States 17 854 0.7× 676 0.8× 577 0.8× 193 1.8× 48 0.7× 45 1.1k
Erik R. Thomas United States 18 1.1k 0.9× 453 0.5× 896 1.2× 184 1.7× 38 0.6× 47 1.3k
Kathryn Campbell‐Kibler United States 14 764 0.6× 562 0.7× 444 0.6× 93 0.9× 91 1.4× 26 993
David Britain United Kingdom 15 617 0.5× 560 0.7× 339 0.5× 94 0.9× 67 1.0× 71 840
Donald Winford United States 16 880 0.7× 787 1.0× 214 0.3× 59 0.5× 59 0.9× 42 1.1k
Alexandra D’Arcy Canada 18 850 0.7× 786 1.0× 295 0.4× 57 0.5× 172 2.6× 37 1.1k
Anthony J. Naro Brazil 14 644 0.5× 706 0.9× 324 0.4× 143 1.3× 73 1.1× 40 974

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Culpeper, Jonathan, Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak, Tony McEnery, & Francis Katamba. (2018). English Language. 2 indexed citations
2.
Kerswill, Paul. (2017). Listening to the Past. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul. (2016). Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland: Det norske dialektlandskapet.. 34(1). 2 indexed citations
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Wodak, Ruth, Barbara Johnstone, & Paul Kerswill. (2011). The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics. 48 indexed citations
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Cheshire, Jenny, Paul Kerswill, Sue Fox, & Eivind Torgersen. (2011). Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 15(2). 151–196. 222 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul. (2006). Migration and language.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 2271–2285. 20 indexed citations
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Cheshire, Jenny, Paul Kerswill, & Ann Williams. (2005). 1 On the non-convergence of phonology, grammar and discourse. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 2 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul & Ann Williams. (2005). New towns and koineization: linguistic and social correlates. Linguistics. 43(5). 65 indexed citations
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Hinskens, Frans, Peter Auer, & Paul Kerswill. (2005). Dialect change : The convergence and divergence of dialects in contemporary societies. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 8 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul. (2004). Social dialectology/Sozialdialektologie.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul. (2002). Models of linguistic change and diffusion: new evidence from dialect levelling in British English *. Brain Research. 426(1). 37–46. 17 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul & Ann Williams. (2002). Dialect Recognition and Speech Community Focusing in New and Old Towns in England: The Effects of Dialect Levelling, Demography and Social Networks. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 29(7). 175–206. 12 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul & Ann Williams. (2000). Creating a New Town koine: Children and language change in Milton Keynes. Language in Society. 29(1). 65–115. 238 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul & Ann Williams. (1999). Mobility versus Social Class in Dialect Levelling: Evidence from New and Old Towns in England = Movilidad frente a la nivelación dialectal en las clases sociales: Evidencias desde una ciudad vieja y otra nueva en Inglaterra. 8(1). 47–57. 2 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul & Ann Williams. (1999). MOBILITY VERSUS SOCIAL CLASS IN DIALECT LEVELLING: EVIDENCE FROM NEW AND OLD TOWNS IN ENGLAND. Digitum: Institutional Repository of the University of Murcia (University of Murcia). 8. 14 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul. (1996). Dialect Levelling, Koineisation and the Speech of the Adult Migrant. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 5 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul. (1995). Phonological convergence in dialect contact: Evidence from citation forms. Language Variation and Change. 7(2). 195–207. 14 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul. (1994). Dialects Converging. 46 indexed citations
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Kerswill, Paul. (1994). Dialects Converging: Rural Speech in Urban Norway. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 53 indexed citations

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