a list of my ‘academic’ publications, with the acknowledgement that the distinction between ‘academic’ and ‘not’ (see ‘other writing’) is blurry…
| Blaxter, Tamsin. 2023. Old Language is Dredged Up a New. In Joshua Davies & Caroline Bergvall (eds.), Caroline Bergvall’s Medievalist Poetics, 147–154. 1st edn. Amsterdam University Press. doi:10.1017/9781802701739.019.
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| Blaxter, Tamsin & Tara Garnett. 2022. Primed for power: a short cultural history of protein. TABLE. doi:10.56661/ba271ef5. | October 2022 |
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| Blaxter, Tamsin. 2022. Diachronic dialectology: new methods and case studies. Publications of the Philological Society. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. | January 2022 |
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| Gopal, Deepthi, Tamsin Blaxter, David Willis & Adrian Leemann. 2021. Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data. In Arne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler & Georg Oberdorfer (eds.), Studies in Language Variation, vol. 27, 254–278. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi:10.1075/silv.27.11bla. | December 2021 |
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| Britain, David, Tamsin Blaxter & Adrian Leemann. 2021. Retention and loss of traditional dialect in England: evidence from the English Dialects App. In A. Thibault, M. Avanzi & A. Millour (eds.), Nouveaux regards sur la variation dialectale (TraLiPhi -Travaux de linguistique et de philologie). Strasbourg: ELIPHI, Éditions de Linguistique et de philologie. | September 2021 |
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| Burridge, James & Tamsin Blaxter. 2021. “Inferring the drivers of language change using spatial models.” Journal of Physics: Complexity. doi:10.1088/2632-072X/abfa82 | July 2021 |
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| Blaxter, Tamsin & David Britain. 2021. “Hands off the metadata!: Comparing the use of explicit and background metadata in crowdsourced dialectology.” Linguistics Vanguard 7(s1). DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2019-0029 | January 2021 |
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| Burridge, James & Tamsin Blaxter. 2020. “Using spatial patterns of English folk speech to infer the universality class of linguistic copying.” Physical Review Research 2(4):043053. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043053. | October 2020 |
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| Jansen, Sandra, Justyna A Robinson, Lynne Cahill, Adrian Leemann, Tamsin Blaxter & David Britain. “Sussex by the sea: A descriptive analysis of dialect variation in the South East of England based on English Dialect App data.” English Today 36(3):31-39. doi:10.1017/S0266078420000218 | September 2020 |
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| Britain, David, Tamsin Blaxter & Adrian Leemann. 2020. “East Anglian English in the English Dialects App: Regional variation in East Anglian English based on evidence from a smartphone-based survey.” English Today 36(3):14-30. doi:10.1017/S0266078420000206 | September 2020 |
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| Burridge, J., T. Blaxter & B. Vaux. “Evolutionary paths of language.” Europhysics Letters 128:28003. DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/128/28003. | January 2020 |
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| Blaxter, Tam. 2019. “Ther varom mid j hia: Tracing linguistic diffusion in the history of Norwegian using kernel density estimation.” Dialectologia et Geolinguistica 27.1:5-34. DOI: 10.1515/dialect-2019-0002. [figures and video supplements]. | November 2019 |
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| Leemann, A., T. Blaxter, D. Britain & K. Earnshaw. 2019. “The FACE of Change in English Dialects: 1950 v 2018.” Proceedings of ICPhS 2019:373-377. | August 2019 |
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| Gittelson, Benjamin William, Adrian Leemann, Fabian Tomaschek, Tam Blaxter, David Britain. 2019 preprint. “Socially constrained variation in nonmodal phonation for more than 2,500 speakers of British English.” Preprint at PsyArXiv. | May 2019 |
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| Blaxter, Tam & Richard Coates. 2019. “The TRAP-BATH split in Bristol English.” English Language and Linguistics.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S136067431900008X | April 2019 |
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| Blaxter, Tam & Peter Trudgill. 2019. “On case loss and svarabhakti vowels: the sociolinguistic typology and geolinguistics of simplification in North Germanic.” Journal of Linguistic Geography 7.1:1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2019.3 | April 2019 |
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| Blaxter, Tam, Kate Beeching, Richard Coates, James Murphy & Emily Robinson. 2019. “Each p[ɚ]son does it th[ɛː] way: Rhoticity variation and the community grammar.” Language Variation and Change 31.1:91-117. DOI: 10.1017/S0954394519000048 | March 2019 |
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| Blaxter, Tam & David Willis. 2018. “Pragmatic differentiation of negative markers in the early stages of Jespersen’s cycle in North Germanic.” Diachronica 35.4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.16040.bla. | December 2018 |
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| Blaxter, Tam & Kari Kinn. 2018. “On ek and jak in Middle Norwegian: Mixed methods in historical sociolinguistics.” Transactions of the Philological Society 2018:1-27. DOI: 10.1111/1467-968X.12126 | April 2018 |
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| Blaxter, Tam. 2017. Speech in space and time: Contact, change and diffusion in medieval Norway. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge. DOI: 10.17863/CAM.15576. | November 2017 |
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| Blaxter, Tam & David Willis. 2017. “Pragmatic differentiation of negative markers in the early stages of Jespersen’s cycle in North Germanic.” Working papers in Scandinavian Syntax 98:105-130. | June 2017 |
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| Blaxter, Tam. 2015. “Gender and language change in Old Norse sentential negatives.” Language Variation and Change 27.3:349–375. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394515000125 | October 2015 |
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| Blaxter, Tam. 2014. “Applying keyword analysis to gendered language in the Íslendingasögur.” Nordic Journal of Linguistics 37:169–198. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586514000171 | October 2014 |
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| Blaxter, Tam. 2013. Sociolinguistic variation in the Old Icelandic Family Sagas. MPhil thesis, University of Oxford. | June 2013 |
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| Blaxter, Tam. 2010. ‘We still talk Cadbury Heath.’ A quantitative study of rhoticity in Bristol English. BA dissertation, University of Essex. | June 2010 |
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