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forthcoming 'Exploring a Perceptual Dialect Boundary in North East England'.

2009  'A Perceptual Dialect Map of North East England'. Journal of English Linguistics 37:2 pp.162-192.

2008 'Investigating the Collocational Behaviour of MAN and WOMAN in the BNC'. Corpora 3:1 pp.1-29.

2005 'Informalization in UK Party Election Broadcasts 1966-1997'. Language and Literature 14:1 pp.65-90. (Winner of the 2005 Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) Prize.)  

2004 'The Marketization of Discourse about Education in UK General Election Manifestos'. TEXT 24:2 pp.245-265.

2001 '“Getting Behind the Image”: Personality Politics in a Labour Party Election Broadcast'. Language and Literature 10:3 pp.211-228.