Nicholas Flynn

List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicholas Flynn plays a role.

Articles

Braber, Natalie and Nicholas Flynn 2015 The East MidlandsResearching Northern English, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 369–392 | Article
The East Midlands, while defined as a dialect area in several dialectological texts (Hughes, Trudgill and Watt 2012; Trudgill 1999; Wells 1982), has been largely ignored by variationists and is frequently subsumed into the general “Northern” dialect region (as in Kortmann and Upton’s 2008 text).… read more
Schleef, Erik and Nicholas Flynn 2015 Ageing meanings of (ing): Age and indexicality in Manchester, EnglandEnglish World-Wide 36:1, pp. 48–90 | Article
This study examines the social meanings that speakers associate with variants of the variable (ing) in Manchester, focusing on a comparison of two age groups: a young age group of adolescents and those in very early adulthood, and an older age group. In most English varieties, (ing) has two… read more
Schleef, Erik, Nicholas Flynn and Michael Ramsammy 2015 Production and perception of (ing) in Manchester EnglishLanguage Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013, Torgersen, Eivind, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland (eds.), pp. 197–210 | Article
Unlike most varieties of English, in which (ing) has only two major realisations, [ɪŋ] and [ɪn], in Manchester a third variant for (ing) occurs, [ɪŋɡ]. Our research firstly confirms that [ɪŋɡ] exists in Manchester as a variant of (ing) for young adult speakers and that it is more common in more… read more