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Sullivan, Jennifer and April McMahon 2012 Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh’s influence lives on here too Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 139–154 | Article

While his eponymous basic vocabulary lists and the study of language divergence may be Swadesh’s most appreciated legacies, we demonstrate that phonetic quantification of language varieties also follows very much in the tradition of Swadesh’s own work. We compare a few different measures of… read more

Sullivan, Jennifer and April McMahon 2010 Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh’s influence lives on here too Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 325–340 | Article

While his eponymous basic vocabulary lists and the study of language divergence may be Swadesh’s most appreciated legacies, we demonstrate that phonetic quantification of language varieties also follows very much in the tradition of Swadesh’s own work. We compare a few different measures of… read more

McMahon, April 2005 Heads I Win, Tails You Lose Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological papers in honour of John Anderson, Carr, Philip, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen (eds.), pp. 255–275 | Article

McMahon, April and Robert McMahon 2004 Family values New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002, Kay, Christian, Simon Horobin and Jeremy J. Smith (eds.), pp. 103–123 | Article

McMahon, April 1996 On the use of the past to explain the present English Historical Linguistics 1994: Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8 ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19–23 September 1994), Britton, Derek (ed.), pp. 73–92 | Article

McMahon, April and Paul Foulkes 1994 Sound Change, Phonological Rules, and Articulatory Phonology Sound Change, Dominicy, Marc and Didier Demolin (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article

Abstract. The gestural model of Articulatory Phonology currently being developed by Browman and Goldstein provides a new way of modelling both synchronic and diachronic phonetic processes as well as certain types of synchronic phonological rules. Although Browman and Goldstein place stringent… read more