Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles

• Brand J., Hay J., Clark L., Watson K. and Sóskuthy M. (2021) Systematic co-variation of monophthongs across speakers of New Zealand English. Journal of Phonetics 88 101096: 101096-101096. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101096.

• Rashid S., Howard J., Cunningham U. and Watson K. (2021) Learner training in MALL: a Pakistani case study. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 15(2): 181-194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17501229.2020.1737076.

• Villarreal D., Clark L., Hay J. and Watson K. (2021) Gender separation and the speech community: Rhoticity in early 20th century Southland New Zealand English. Language Variation and Change 33(2): 245-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954394521000090.

• Villarreal D., Clark L., Hay J. and Watson K. (2020) From categories to gradience: Auto-coding sociophonetic variation with random forests. Laboratory Phonology 11(1) 6 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/labphon.216.

• Heyne M., Wang X., Derrick D., Dorreen K. and Watson KD. (2018) The articulation of /ɹ/ in New Zealand English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association Online First http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100318000324.

• Le T., Cunningham UM. and Watson K. (2018) The relationship between willingness to communicate and social presence in an online English language course. The JALT CALL Journal 14(1): 43-59.

• Rashid S., Cunningham U., Watson K. and Howard J. (2018) Revisiting the digital divide(s): Technology-enhanced English language practices at a university in Pakistan. Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics 1(2): 64-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.29140/ajal.v1n2.7.

• Rashid S., Cunningham U. and Watson KD. (2017) Task-based language teaching with smartphones: A case study in Pakistan. Teachers and Curriculum 17(2): 33-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15663/tandc.v17i2.167.

• Clark L. and Watson K. (2016) Phonological leveling, diffusion, and divergence:/t/lenition in Liverpool and its hinterland. Language Variation and Change 28(1): 31-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954394515000204.

• Fromont R. and Watson K. (2016) Factors influencing automatic segmental alignment of sociophonetic corpora. Corpora 11(3): 401-431. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2016.0101.

• Leach H., Watson K. and Gnevsheva K. (2016) Perceptual dialectology in northern England: Accent recognition, geographical proximity and cultural prominence. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20(2): 192-211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12178.

• Watson K. (2015) First year sociolinguistics and the teaching/research nexus. Te Reo 58: 115-132.

• Watson K. and Clark L. (2015) Exploring listeners' real-time reactions to regional accents. Language Awareness 24(1): 38-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2014.882346.

• Honeybone P. and Watson K. (2013) Salience and the sociolinguistics of Scouse spelling: Exploring the phonology of the Contemporary Humorous Localised Dialect Literature of Liverpool. English World-Wide 34(3): 305-340. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.34.3.03hon.

• Maguire W., Clark L. and Watson K. (2013) Introduction: what are mergers and can they be reversed? English Language and Linguistics 17(2): 229-239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674313000014.

• Walsh L., Hay J., Bent D., Grant L., King J., Millar P., Papp V. and Watson K. (2013) The UC QuakeBox Project: Creation of a community-focused research archive. New Zealand English Journal 27: 20-32.

• Watson K. (2013) Language myths and New Zealand English in the news. New Zealand English Journal 27: 1-6.

• Watson K. and Clark L. (2013) How salient is the NURSE~SQUARE merger? English Language and Linguistics 17(2): 297-323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S136067431300004X.

• Clark L. and Watson K. (2011) Testing claims of a usage-based phonology with Liverpool English t-to-r. English Language and Linguistics 15(3): 523-547. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674311000153.

• Watson K. (2007) Liverpool English. Journal of the International Phonetics Association 37(3): 351-360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100307003180.

• Watson K. (2006) Lenition and Segmental Interaction: Evidence from Liverpool English (and Spanish). Glossa 1(1): 54-71.

• Watson K. (2006) Phonological resistance and innovation in the North-West of England. English Today 22(2): 55-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0266078406002100.

• Watson KD. (2002) The realisation of final /t/ in Liverpool English.. Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 8: 195-205.

Chapters

• Watson K. and Jensen MM. (2020) Automatic analysis of dialect literature: advantages and challenges. Dialect Writing and the North of England: 316-350. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

• Watson KD. (2018) Dialects of British and Southern Hemisphere English. In Boberg C; Nerbonne J; Watt D (Ed.), The Handbook of Dialectology: 439-449. Oxford: Blackwell. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118827628.ch25.

• Watson KD. (2018) Phonetics. In Culpeper J; Kerswill P; Wodak R; McEnery T; Katamba F (Ed.), English Language: Description, Variation and Context (2nd ed.): 11-28. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Watson KD. (2018) Regional variation in English accents and dialects. In Culpeper J; Kerswill P; Wodak R; McEnery T; Katamba F (Ed.), English Language: Description, Variation and Context (2nd ed.): 271-290. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Honeybone P., Watson KD. and van Eyndhoven S. (2017) Lenition and T-to-R are differently salient: The representation of competing realisations of /t/ in Liverpool English dialect literature. In Hancil S; Beal J (Ed.), Perspectives on Northern Englishes: 83-108. Berlin: De Gruyter. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110450903.

• Watson KD. and Clark L. (2017) The Origins of Liverpool English. In Hickey R (Ed.), Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English: 114-141. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781107279865.007.

• Kerswill P. and Watson K. (2013) Phonological considersations in sociophonetics. In Holmes J; Hazen K (Ed.), Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide: 136-148. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

• Watson K. (2012) Patterns of accent variation in British English. In Clayton D (Ed.), Language. A Student Handbook on Key Topics and Theories: 44-59. London: English and Media Centre.

• Watson K. (2009) Phonetics. In Culpeper J; Katamba F; Kerswill P; Wodak R; McEnery T (Ed.), English Language: Description, Variation and Context: 11-29. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Watson K. (2009) Regional Variation in English Accents and Dialects. In Culpeper J; Katamba F; Kerswill P; Wodak R; McEnery T (Ed.), English Language: Description, Variation and Context: 337-357. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Watson K. (2007) Is Scouse Getting Scouser? Exploring Phonological Change in Contemporary Liverpool English. In Grant A; Grey C (Ed.), The Mersey Sound: Liverpool's Language, People and Places: 215-241. Ormskirk: Open House Press.

Edited Volumes

• Watson KD (Ed.) (2015) Teaching Linguistics and Sociolinguistics in New Zealand. Te Reo 58New Zealand: 59-132.

• Maguire W., Clark L. and Watson K. (2013) English Language and Linguistics 17(2) Special Issue: Phonological mergers in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 161pp.

Conference Contributions - Published

• Brand J., Hay J., Clark L., Watson K. and Sóskuthy M. (2019) Systematic covariation of monophthongs across speakers of New Zealand English. In Calhoun S; Escudero P; Tabain M; Warren P (Eds). Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: 1878-1882. Canberra: Australasian Speech Science Technology Association Inc.

Conference Contributions - Other

• Brand J., Hay J., Clark L., Watson K. and Soskuthy M. (2020) At the margins of vowel-space change: Leaders and laggers in the evolution of vocalic subsystems. Vancouver (online): Laboratory Phonology 17, 8 Jul 2020.

• Brand J., Hay J., Clark L., Watson K. and Soskuthy M. (2019) Detecting co-variation of vowels withing the time-course of conversations. University of Canterbury: Linguistic Society Conference of New Zealand, 28-29 Nov 2019.

• Ford G. and Watson K. (2019) "They are us” too: a corpus-assisted analysis of discourse about immigrants on New Zealand talk radio before March 15, 2019.. Christchurch: Conference of the New Zealand Political Studies Association, 27-28 Nov 2019.

• Villarreal D., Clark L., Hay J. and Watson K. (2019) The Short Front Vowel Shift in Southland English. University of Canterbury: Linguistics Society of New Zealand, 28 Nov 2019.

• Villarreal D., Papp V., Clark L., Hay J. and Watson K. (2019) Telling a new story with old data: Random-forest classification of non-prevocalic (r) in Southland New Zealand English. Macquarie University, Sydney: Variation and Language Processing, 23-25 Jan 2019.

• Rose D., Hay JB., King J. and Watson K. (2018) QuakeFace: Large-Scale Automatic Facial Feature Annotation. Auckland: Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, 27-30 Jun 2018.

• Villarreal D., Clark L., Hay J. and Watson K. (2018) Directions of change in Southland English (r). Victoria University of Wellington: New Zealand Linguistiics Society Conference, 16-18 Nov 2018.

• Hobbs C., Papp VG. and Watson K. (2017) /z/ devoicing(?) in New Zealand English: A comparison of Maori and Pakeha speakers. Auckland, New Zealand: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Annual Conference (Language in Society), 21-23 Nov 2017.

• Watson KD. and Papp V. (2017) Exploring the Canterbury Earthquakes using automated topic analysis. University of Bristol, UK: iMean, 6-8 Apr 2017.

• Culpeper J., Johnson DE. and Watson KD. (2016) Multimodal requests and (im)politeness: The perception of directness, prosody and power. Manchester, UK: Linguistic Im/politeness, Aggression and Rudeness Conference (LIAR), 12-14 Jul 2016.

• Heyne M., Dorreen K., Wang X., Derrick D. and Watson KD. (2016) An ultrasound study of /r/ in New Zealand English. Wellington, New Zealand: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Annual Conference (Language in Society), 21-22 Nov 2016.

• Heyne M., Wang X., Dorreen K., Derrick D. and Watson KD. (2016) The articulation of /r/ in New Zealand English. Honolulu, HI, USA: Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, 28 Nov-2 Dec 2016.

• Le TV., Cunningham U. and Watson KD. (2016) Online course to improve communicative skills for high school students. Qui Nhon, Vietnam: 7th Annual International Conference on TESOL: Innovations in English Teaching and Learning, 11-13 Aug 2016.

• Le VT., Cunningham U. and Watson KD. (2016) Students' practices and beliefs about technology. Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam: 2nd International TESOL Conference: Promoting Effective Change in the Language Classroom, 27-28 Aug 2016.

• Papp V. and Watson KD. (2016) Automated topic analysis and the QuakeBox corpus. Wellington, New Zealand: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Annual Conference (Language in Society), 21-22 Nov 2016.

• Peach E., Papp V. and Watson KD. (2016) Effects of perceived ethnicity and hesitation markers in New Zealand court transcripts. Wellington, New Zealand: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Annual Conference (Language in Society), 21-22 Nov 2016.

• Sun K., Wang X., Gnevsheva K. and Watson KD. (2016) Seeing a foreign accent, accentedness perception in Asian and Caucasian Non-Native English Speakers. Wellington, New Zealand: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Annual Conference (Language in Society), 21-22 Nov 2016.

• Sutrave N., Watson KD. and Beckner C. (2016) A usage-based account of t-to-r in Northern England: the role of predictability. Lodz, Poland: Accents 2016, 1-3 Dec 2016.

• Wang X. and Watson K. (2016) Speaker attitudes in koineisation in Hohhot, China: exploring individual and group patterns. Chiayi, Taiwan: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Asia-Pacific (NWAV-AP 4), 22-24 Apr 2016.

• Wang X., Sun K., Gnevsheva K. and Watson KD. (2016) Seeing a foreign accent: Perception of accentedness in Asian and Caucasian speakers by Asian listeners. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Linguistics Society conference, 7-9 Dec 2016.

• Zimmermann J., Rose D., Burkle D. and Watson KD. (2016) The Role of Expectability and Sub-Phonemic Detail in Speech Perception: English has-clitic S vs. plural S. Wellington, New Zealand: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Annual Conference (Language in Society), 21-22 Nov 2016.

• Clark L., Hay J., Rathcke T., Stuart-Smith J. and Watson K. (2015) How Scottish ancestry influenced early New Zealanders' vowel lengths. Dunedin, New Zealand: New Zealand Linguistics Society, 14-15 Dec 2015.

• Watson K., Clark L. and van Eyndhoven S. (2015) T-to-R in north-west England: lexical frequency, schema strength and transitional probability. Newcastle, UK: 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 20-25 Jul 2015.

• Watson K., Hay J., Stuart-Smith J., Clark L. and Rathcke T. (2015) How Scottish ancestry influenced early New Zealanders' vowel lengths. York, UK: 10th UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC), 1-3 Sep 2015.

• Honeybone P. and Watson K. (2014) Liverpool Dialect Literature: quantitative analysis and phonological salience. Rouen, France: International Conference on Northern British English (NBC 2014), 12-13 May 2014.

• Watson K. (2014) (Socio)linguistics and the teaching/research nexus. 2014 Language and Society Conference, 24-25 Nov 2014.

• Watson K., Leach H. and Gnevsheva K. (2014) Proximity, cultural prominence and sociolinguistic salience in perceptual dialectology. 2014 Language and Society Conference, 24-25 Nov 2014.

• Clark L. and Watson K. (2013) Comparing individual speaker constraints with the speech community: /t/ debuccalisation in English. Christchurch, New Zealand: Variation and Language Processing Conference (VALP), 16-18 Jan 2013.

• Clark L. and Watson K. (2013) The transmission and diffusion of /t/ debuccalisation. Sheffield, UK: UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC), 2-4 Sep 2013.

• Ford G., Watson K. and Hayward B. (2013) The New Zealand Political Language Corpus and Citizen Taxpayer: Introducing a new corpus and a case study exploring representations of the taxpayer. Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand Political Studies Association Conference, 2-3 Dec 2013.

• Peek M. and Watson K. (2013) Personality and non-linguistic perceptual sensitivity predict phonetic convergence. Christchurch, New Zealand: Variation and Language Processing Conference (VALP), 16-18 Jan 2013.

• Watson K. and Clark L. (2012) Sociolinguistic salience and the NURSE/SQUARE merger. Auckland, New Zealand: 13th Language and Society Conference, 27-28 Nov 2012.

• Watson K., Clark L. and Gold E. (2012) Phonological convergence and divergence in North-West England: the case of /t/ lenition. Auckland, New Zealand: 13th Language and Society Conference, 27-28 Nov 2012.

• Clark L. and Watson K. (2011) Capturing listeners' real-time reactions to the NURSE~SQUARE merger. Boston, MA, USA: International Society for the Linguistics of English 2011 Conference (ISLE 2011), 17-21 Jun 2011.

• Clark L. and Watson K. (2011) Evidence for phonological priming from sociophonetics. Edge Hill University, UK: 8th UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC8), 12-14 Sep 2011.

• Clark L., Watson K. and West H. (2011) Th-fronting in the north west: new data from an old friend. Edge Hill University, UK: 8th UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC8), 12-14 Sep 2011.

• Maguire W., Clark L. and Watson K. (2011) The meaning of 'merger'. Boston, MA, USA: International Society for the Linguistics of English 2011 Conference (ISLE 2011), 17-21 Jun 2011.

• Watson K. and Clark L. (2011) Capturing listeners' real-time reactions to local and supralocal linguistic features. Chester, UK: Variation and Language Processing Conference, 11-13 Apr 2011.

• Watson K. and Clark L. (2011) Change point analysis and language attitudes: measuring reactions to regional variation in real time. Poznan, Poland: Poznan Linguistics Meeting, 1-3 May 2011.

• Watson K., Clark L. and West H. (2011) Changes in Liverpool English interdental fricatives. Wellington, New Zealand: 19th Biennial Conference of the Linguistics Society of New Zealand, 17-18 Nov 2011.

• Clark L. and Watson K. (2010) Testing a usage-based phonology with northern English t-to-r. Montpellier, France: PAC Workshop 2010, The Phonology of English: usage, varieties and structure, 13-15 Sep 2010.

• Watson K. (2010) Lax articulation or fine-grained control?: Plosive lenition in Liverpool English. Landau/Pfalz, Germany: 34th International LAUD Symposium on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, 15-18 Mar 2010.

• Watson K. and Clark L. (2010) t-to-r' in British English: Word Frequency, Constructions, and Sociolinguistics. San Antonio, TX, USA: New Ways of Analysing Variation (NWAV 39), 4-6 Nov 2010.

• Watson K. and Mattock K. (2009) The effect of speakers' geographical mobility on their production and perception of a phonological merger: evidence from NURSE and SQUARE in Liverpool English. Leuven, Belgium: Perception, Production & Attitude, 3-3 Apr 2009.

• Watson K. and Mattock K. (2009) The effect of speakers' geographical mobility on their production and perception of a phonological merger: Evidence from NURSE and SQUARE in Liverpool English. London, UK: 3rd International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE3), 14-17 Jul 2009.

• Watson K. and Owen A. (2009) The production and perception of NURSE and SQUARE in Wigan. Newcastle, UK: 7th UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC7), 1-3 Sep 2009.

• Watson K. and Whisker K. (2009) Plosive lenition in Liverpool English: Using a phonological corpus to compare the past with the present. Aix-en-Provence, France: PAC Workshop on Models, Variation and Phonological Corpora, 10-11 Sep 2009.

• Watson K. (2007) Utterance-final debuccalisation in Liverpool English. Lancaster, UK: 6th UK Language Variation and Change conference (UKLVC6), 11-13 Sep 2007.

• Watson K. and Hollmann W. (2007) Definite article reduction in northern England: on frequency, constructions and sociolinguistics. Milwaukee, WI, USA: 25th UWM Symposium on Formulaic Language, 18-21 Apr 2007.

• Watson K. and Papen U. (2006) Speech and spelling: facilitation or interference? University of Limerick, Ireland: Sociolinguistic Symposium 16 (SS16), 6-8 Jul 2006.

• Watson K. (2005) Lenition and structured phonetic variability in Liverpool English. Edinburgh, UK: 1st International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, 23 Jun 2006.

• Watson K. (2005) Phonological convergence and divergence in Liverpool English. Aberdeen, UK: UK Language Variation and Change, 12 Sep 2005.

• Watson K. (2005) Phonological convergence and divergence in the same British city. New York, NY, USA: New Ways of Analysing Variation 34, 20 Oct 2005.

• Honeybone P. and Watson K. (2002) Liverpool English, visarga in pausa and the phonetics-phonology divide. Toulouse, France: Conference on English Phonology, 27 Jun 2002.

• Honeybone P. and Watson K. (2002) Visarga in pausa in Liverpool English. Manchester, UK: Manchester Phonology Meeting, 23 May 2002.

Oral Presentations

• Watson K. (2018) A century of Scouse: accent change in Liverpool and its hinterland. Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool UK: Invited lecture, 05 Dec 2018.

• Watson K. (2018) Are Scousers [nice|friendly|thieves|tough|inbred]? Examining attitudes towards Liverpool English. University of Liverpool, UK: Invited lecture, 16 Oct 2018.

• Watson K. (2018) Dialectological insights with big data methods. University of Zurich, Switzerland: Invited lecture, 07 Dec 2018.

• Watson K. (2018) Liverpool English as a case study for understanding the systematicity of linguistic variation. University of Liverpool UK: Invited lecture, 25 Oct 2018.

• Watson K. (2018) What is OLIVE and what can it do (now)? University of Edinburgh, UK: Invited lecture, 17 Dec 2018.

• Watson KD. (2017) Exploring Scouse with OLIVE. University of Liverpool, UK: Invited lecture at the University of Liverpool.

• Watson KD. (2017) Language change and age: north west England and New Zealand.. University of York, UK: Invited talk at the University of York.

• Watson KD. (2017) Phonological change and corpus sociophonetics: the case of Scouse. University of Salford, UK: Invited talk at the University of Salford.

• Watson KD. (2015) 100 years of Scouse and its hinterland: the OLIVE corpus. University of Chester, UK: Invited talk, English Department Seminar Series.

• Watson KD. (2015) A century of Scouse: phonological levelling, diffusion and divergence in Liverpool and its hinterland. University of Edinburgh: Invited talk, Linguistics and English Language Seminar Series.

• Watson KD. (2015) Examining phonological levelling and geographical diffusion with a century of Scouse. York St John University, York, UK: Invited talk, Department of Languages and Linguistics Seminar Series.

• Watson K. (2012) False teeth, pollen or depression? Where did the Kiwi accent come from? Christchurch College of English Language, New Zealand.

• Watson K. (2012) What is the New Zealand accent like, and what do we think about it? St Stephen's Church, Christchurch, New Zealand: University of the Third Age: Connecting Minds, Mouths and Movement.

• Watson K. (2012) Where does the New Zealand accent come from? And where is it going? Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand: Platform Arts Festival: Talkfest.

• Clark L. and Watson K. (2011) Sociophonetics meets Scouse: explorations in the production and perception of Liverpool English. University of Northumbria, UK: Linguistics Seminar Series.

• Clark L. and Watson KD. (2011) Liverpool English and its hinterland. Birmingham City University: Invited talk, Birmingham City School of English Research Seminar Series.

• Kerswill P., Watson KD. and Clark L. (2011) Salience. University of Bergen: Invited talk at the Language Change in Modern Sociolinguistics symposium.

• Watson K. and Clark L. (2011) It's not just levelling: exploring phonological change in north-west England. Wellington, New Zealand: School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Seminars.

• Watson K. and Clark L. (2011) Sociolinguistics, salience and statistics: outlining some new directions in language attitude research. Sheffield Halam University, UK: Invited talk at the Sheffield Halam English Department seminar series.

• Watson K. and Clark L. (2010) Exploring t-to-r in Liverpool and Lancashire. University of Manchester, UK: Invited talk at the University of Manchester Linguistics Seminar series.

• Watson K. and Clark L. (2010) Sociolinguistic and cognitive linguistic perspectives on northern English t-to-r. University of York, UK: Invited talk at the University of York Linguistics seminar series.

• Watson KD. (2008) Sociophonetics: more than the sum of its parts? University of Salford: Invited plenary lecture at the Northern Englishes Workshop.

• Watson KD. (2008) What do you mean 'her' doesn't rhyme with 'hair'? Exploring the Scouse of young Scousers. Liverpool University and Liverpool Maritime Museum: Invited plenary lecture at the Celebrating Liverpool conference.

• Watson K. (2007) Exploring phonological change and language ideologies in England's north-west. University of Salford, UK: Invited talk at the Salford University Linguistics Department seminar series.

• Watson K. (2007) Phonological variation in the north-west of England: the effects of geographical and social distance. Liverpool Hope University: Invited talk at the Liverpool Hope University English Department seminar series.

• Watson KD. (2007) Continuing professional development for teachers of A Level English Language.. Kings College, London: Invited talk at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain conference.

• Watson KD. and Kerswill P. (2007) "The invasion of the biggest pest since the cockroach, yes, the Scouser" Exploring language ideologies and relationships between regions in England's north-west.. Lancaster University, UK: Invited panel session at the Regions and Regionalism within and beyond Europe conference.

• Watson K. (2006) "Write it how you say it": Examining phonological interference in children's spelling mistakes. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK: Invited talk at the Linguistics Circle, University of Central Lancashire.

• Watson K. (2006) Language & gender meets theoretical phonology: bridging the pedagogic gap? Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK: Gender and Language BAAL Special Interest Group on Current Issues in the Teaching of Language, Gender and Sexuality in Further and Higher Education One-day Seminar.

• Watson KD. (2005) Phonetic variation from the bottom up: evidence from Liverpool English plosives. University of Aberdeen: Invited talk at the Centre for Linguistic Research seminar series.

• Honeybone P. and Watson K. (2004) The (continuing) development of Scouse: language meets history, society and culture. Liverpool, UK: Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Liverpool and Merseyside Studies.

• Watson K. (2004) Is Scouse getting scouser? The emergence of new phonological variables in Liverpool English. University of Roehampton, London, UK: Invited talk at the University of Roehampton English Language and Linguistics Research seminars.

Other

• Gnevsheva K. and Watson K. (2016) Second language accent variation and 'passing' as a native speaker. Babel 15: 40-43. [Magazine].

• Watson K. (2010) Language change on Merseyside: more or less Scouse? English and Media Centre. [Electronic magazine].

• Watson KD. (2009) Review of Zurinskas, T. E. 'Analysis of the sounds (phonemes) of USA English - Teuespel Book 1. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 39(1): 101-105. Cambridge University Press (CUP).

• Honeybone P. and Watson KD. (2007) Phonemes, graphics and phonics for Liverpool English. [Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain].

Theses / Dissertations

• Watson K. (2007) The phonetics and phonology of plosive leniton in Liverpool English. Lancaster, UK. Lancaster University.

Other

• Watson KD. (2007) Review of Beal. J. (2006) Language and Region. London: Routledge.. LinguistList 18.31476.

Student Supervision

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Current
• PhD - Azhar U: Language maintenance among Punjabi speakers in Christchurch
• PhD - Fournier M: A sociophonetic investigation of Scottish Parliament during the Scottish Independence Referendum
• PhD - Kaefer S: A sociolinguistic study of Antarctica
• PhD - Redondo S: Gamification methodologies in the language classroom
• PhD - Williams G: Sociolinguistics, safety and Aviation English
Completed
• PhD - Alexander K: Perception of the boundary between singleton and geminate plosives by Greek Cypriots: A sociophonetic perspective (2014)
• PhD - Ali A: A sociophonetic investigation of Pakistani English (2019)
• PhD - Dagamseh M: Language Maintenance, Shift and Variation: Evidence from Jordanian and Palestinian Immigrants in Christchurch New Zealand (2019)
• PhD - Dagamseh M: Language Variation among the Jordanian Arabs of Christchurch (2019)
• PhD - Ford G: Addressing how people talk about the economy in Environmental policy debates (2018)
• PhD - Gnevsheva K: Variation in degree of accentedness in second language English speakers (2016)
• PhD - Gwasmeh M: Accentedness and language attitudes in Jordan (2021)
• PhD - Haider A: A corpus assisted discourse analysis of the Arab Spring (2016)
• PhD - Kabir S: Listen up or lose out! Policy and practice of listening skills in English language education in Bangladesh (2020)
• PhD - Lee T: Social networking and English teaching in Vietnam (2018)
• PhD - Mattingley W: The phonetics and phonology of loan words in Japanese (2020)
• PhD - Rashid S: The effect of training in Mobile Assisted Language Learning on attitude, beliefs and practices of tertiary students in Pakistan (2018)
• PhD - Saberi K: Routine politeness formulae in Persian (2013)
• PhD - Wang X: New dialect formation in Hohhot, China (2017)
• PhD - West H: Phonological levelling in Southport and Ormskirk: the role of social identity (2011)
• Masters - Alrabab'ah S: Sociophonetic factors and Jordanian English (2018)
• Masters - Alshboul A: Sociophonetic factors and Jordanian English (2018)
• Masters - Busgeeth V: Scouse in Sefton? A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Regional Variation and Language Attitudes in Southport and Formby (2008)
• Masters - Davis I: A Rhythmic Analysis of Rap – What can we learn from ‘flow’? (2017)
• Masters - Hoper R: We’re ‘over the water from them’: Language and identity on the Wirral peninsula (2009)
• Masters - Peach E: Biculturalism in New Zealand Parliament: A corpus-based approach (2018)
• Masters - Taylor N: The influence of accent and pitch on credibility (2018)
• Masters - Watson V: Lexical variation in New Zealand English (2018)
• Honours - Alderson F: Spreading social stereotypes (2013)
• Honours - Johnson A: Priming and speech perception in younger populations (2013)
• Honours - Lee J: Grammaticality judgements of Korean speakers (2013)
• Honours - Logan Z: Style shifting in NZ: The case of John Key (2016)
• Honours - Peach E: Systematic bias in the NZ legal system? How can forensic linguistic help? (2016)

Review and Refereeing

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• Corpora ( 2006 - 2023)
• English Language and Linguistics ( 2006 - 2023)
• Journal of Pragmatics ( 2006 - 2023)
• Language Variation and Change ( 2006 - 2023)
• Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics ( 2006 - 2023)
• Lingua ( 2006 - 2023)
• Linguistics ( 2006 - 2023)