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Mesthrie, Raj. 2015. A Regional and Social Dialectology of the BATH Vowel in South African English. Language Variation and Change 27 (1) : 1–30.
Mesthrie, Raj. 2007. A bird's eye view of Tamil in South Africa. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 38 (2) : 179–194.
Mesthrie, Raj. 2006. Anti-deletions in an L2 grammar: A study of Black South African English mesolect. English World-Wide 27 (2) : 111–145.
Mesthrie, Raj. 2006. Subordinate immigrant languages and language endangerment: Two community studies from Kwazulu-Natal. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 37 (1) : 3–15.
Mesthrie, Raj. 2005. Assessing representations of South African Indian English in writing: An application of variation theory. Language Variation and Change 17 (3) : 303–326.
Mesthrie, Raj. 2005. Putting back the horse before the cart: The “spelling form” fallacy in Second Language Acquisition studies, with special reference to the treatment of unstressed vowels in Black South African English. English World-Wide 26 (2) : 127–151.
Mesthrie, Raj. 2004. Review of $Review of J.K. Chambers, P. Trudgill, N. Schilling-Estes (eds.) (2002:'The handbook of language variation and change'). Language in Society 33 (5) : 769–772.
Mesthrie, Raj. 2002. Endogeny versus contact revisited: aspectual busy in South African English. Language Sciences 24 (3-4) : 345–358.
Mesthrie, Raj. 1995. Historical sketch: English in South Africa. In : 133–135.
Mesthrie, Raj. 1995. Historical sketch: Indian languages in South Africa. In : 141–142.
Mesthrie, Raj. 1995. The sociolinguistic status of English. In : 171–173.
Mesthrie, Raj. 1995. The sociolinguistic status of the Indian languages. In : 175–176.
Mesthrie, Raj. 1993. Nineteenth-century Attestations of English-Afrikaans Code-mixing in the Cape. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 24 (1) : 47–61.
Mesthrie, Raj. 1990. The Linguistic Reflex of Social Change: Caste and Kinship Terms among People of Indian Descent in Natal, South Africa. Anthropological Linguistics 32 (3-4) : 335–353.