Publications
(see CV for full list)
From Deficit to Dialect: The Evolution of English in India and Singapore
2023, Oxford University Press bookMD3: The multi-dialect dataset of dialogues
2023, arXiv. (Eisenstein, Prabhakaran, Rivera, Demszky, & Sharma) pdfSpeaking Up: Accents and Social Mobility
2022, Report for the Sutton Trust. (Levon, Sharma, & Ilbury) pdfDynamic sociolinguistic processing: Real-time change in judgments of speaker competence
2022, Language. (Levon, Sharma, & Ye) doi pdfFalse oppositions in the study of coherence
2022, The coherence of linguistic communities. (Beaman & Guy, eds.) doi pdfVerbal interaction in a social dilemma
2022, Rationality and Society. (Adams, Ludwiczak, Sharma, & Osman). doi pdfAccent Bias and perceptions of professional competence in England
2021, Journal of English Linguistics. (Levon, Sharma, Watt, Cardoso, & Ye). doi pdfSocial class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space
2021, Journal of Sociolinguistics. doi pdf50 years of British accent bias: Stability and lifespan change in attitudes to accents
2021, English World-wide. (Sharma, Levon, & Ye). pdfLearning to recognize dialect features
2021, Proceedings of the North American Association of Computational Linguistics. pdf (Demszky, Sharma, Clark, Prabhakaran, & Eisenstein).Language variation and social networks
2020, Annual Review of Linguistics. (Sharma & Dodsworth). doi pdfMethods for the study of accent bias and access to elite professions
2019, in Journal of Language and Discrimination. (Sharma. Levon, Watt, Ye, & Cardoso). urlLectal focusing in an African American Sermon
2019, in The Routledge Companion to the Work of John Rickford. (Sharma, Hinrichs, Conner, & Kortenhoven). url pdfAttentional load and style control
2018, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. (Sharma & McCarthy). url pdfStyle dominance: Attention, audience, and the 'real me'
2018, Language in Society. doi pdfScalar effects of social networks on language variation
2017, Language Variation and Change. doi pdfOxford Handbook of World Englishes
2017, Oxford University Press. Edited with Markku Filppula and Juhani Klemola. bookInteraction: Talk and Beyond
2016-17, Journal of Sociolinguistics Theme Series, editor. doiThe Language of London and Londoners
2017, in Urban Sociolinguistics, Routledge. With Susan Fox. pdfWorld Englishes and Sociolinguistic Theory
2016, in Oxford Handbook of World Englishes, ed. Filppula, Klemola and Sharma. doi pdfLabov and Sociolinguistics: Fifty years of language in social context
2016, Journal of Sociolinguistics Theme Issue. Edited with Allan Bell and David Britain. doiLectal focusing in interaction: A new methodology for the study of style variation
2015, Journal of English Linguistics. With Ben Rampton. doi pdfEnglish in the Indian Diaspora
2014, Benjamins. Edited with Marianne Hundt. bookTransnational flows, language variation, and ideology
2014, in English in the Indian Diaspora, ed. Hundt and Sharma. pdfResearch Methods in Linguistics
2013, Cambridge University Press. Edited with Rob Podesva. bookWhat's in a grammar? Modeling dominance and optimization in contact
2013, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, peer commentary. doiCognitive and social factors in dialect shift: Gradual change in London Asian speech
2011, Language Variation and Change. doi pdfStyle repertoire and social change in British Asian English
2011, Journal of Sociolinguistics. doi pdfReturn of the Native: Hindi in British English
2011, in Chutnefying English , Kothari and Snell, eds., Penguin India. pdfContact-based aspectual restructuring: A critique of the lexical aspect hypothesis
2010, Queen Mary OPALs Series; with Ashwini Deo. urlA new methodology for the study of aspect in contact: Past and progressive in Indian English
2010, in Aspect in Grammatical Variation , Walker, ed., Benjamins. With Ashwini Deo. book pdfTypological diversity in New Englishes
2009, English World-Wide 30:2. doi pdfAAVE/Creole copula absence: A critique of the imperfect learning hypothesis
2009, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:1. With John Rickford. doi pdfTypology in variation: A probabilistic approach to be and n't in the Survey of English Dialects
2007, English Language and Linguistics 11:6. With Joan Bresnan and Ashwini Deo. doi roaTypological variation in the ergative morphology of Indo-Aryan languages
2006, Linguistic Typology 10:3. With Ashwini Deo. doi roaDialect stabilization and speaker awareness in non-native varieties of English
2005, Journal of Sociolinguistics 9:2. doi pdfLanguage transfer and discourse universals in Indian English article use
2005, Studies in Second Language Acquisition 27:4. doi pdfDiscourse clitics and constructive morphology in Hindi
2003, in Nominals Inside and Out , eds. M. Butt and T. King. book htmlThe pluperfect in native and non-native English: A comparative corpus study
2002, Language Variation and Change 13:3. doi pdfCase marking and person hierarchy effects in Kashmiri
2001, in Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax , ed. P. Sells. bookGendered Practices in Language
2001, CSLI Publications. Edited with Benor, Rose, Sweetland, Zhang. book