/peer-reviewed articles

Blasi, D., Schmid, M., Kasstan, J. R., Poblete, M., Hammarström, H., Gray, R. & R. Zariquiey. (under review). World’s endangered languages remain diverse and complex in spite of waning usage.

Nagy, N., Kasstan, J. R. and C. Dunoyer (2025). 'A sociolinguistic model for electronically mediating language revitalization’. Language 101(2):e109-e135 (https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2025.a962906) [Available online].

Schifano, N., Allen, P., Nellan, P., Restrepo Garcés, T. & J. R. Kasstan (2025). '“I haven’t seen any results yet”: On ethical collaborative research in linguistics and the need for a standard protocol'. Linguistics 63(2): 461-485 (https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2025-0016) [Available online].

Kasstan J. R., Allen P., Nellan, P. and M. Sheehan (2024). 'Chagossian Creole'. Language Documentation & Description 24(1): 1-7 (https://doi.org/10.25894/ldd.2492) [Available online].

Kasstan J. R. & G. Pearson. (2024). 'Ethical committee frameworks and processes used to evaluate Humanities research require reform: Findings from a UK-wide network consultation'. Accountability in Research: Ethics, Integrity and Policy 32(7): 1265-1284. (https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2382736) [Available online].

Sheehan, M., Havinga, A., Kasstan, J. R., Stollhans, S., Corr, A. and P. Gilman (2024). 'Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co-creation project on French, German and Spanish'. British Educational Research Journal. Early View (https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4009) [Available online] [1-page summary].

Chong, A. and J. R. Kasstan (2022). ‘Acoustic characteristics of fricatives in Francoprovençal (Nendaz)’, Journal of the International Phonetic Association 53(3): 888-921 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100322000147) [Available online].

Kasstan, J. R. (2022). ‘A variationist analysis of the subjunctive in a sociolinguistic corpus of spoken Francoprovençal’, Revue des linguistes de l'Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense 84(1): 1-23 (https://doi.org/10.4000/linx.8722) [Available online].

Rodríguez-Ordóñez, I., Kasstan, J. R. and B. O'Rourke (2022). ‘Responding to sociolinguistic change: New speakers and variationist sociolinguistics’, International Journal of Bilingualism 26(5): 529-672 (https://doi.org/10.1117/13670069221110381) [PDF].

Meyerhoff, M., Abtahian Ravindranath, M., Gafter, R. J., Horesh, U., Kasstan, J. R., Keegan, P. and J. King (2021)[2020]. ‘Styles, standards, and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics’, Language Ecology 4(1):1-16 [PDF].

Kasstan, J. R. (2021)[2020]. ‘Modelling stylistic variation in threatened and under-documented languages’, Language Ecology 4(1):73-94 [PDF].

Sheehan, M., Corr, A., Havinga, A., Kasstan, J. R. and N. Schifano (2021). ‘Rethinking the UK languages curriculum: arguments for the inclusion of linguistics’, Modern Languages Open 1:1-24 (https://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.368) [Available online].

Amos, J., Kasstan, J. R. and W. Johnson (2020). ‘Reconsidering the variable context: A phonological argument for (t) and (d) deletion’, English Today 36(3): 6-13 [PDF].

Kasstan, J. R. (2019). ‘Emergent sociolinguistic variation in severe language endangerment’, Language in Society 48(5): 685-720 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404519000472) [PDF].

Hall, D. J., Kasstan, J. R. and D. Hornsby (2019). ‘Beyond obsolescence: A twenty-first century research agenda for the langues régionales’, Journal of French Language Studies 29(2): 155-168 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S095926951900019X) [PDF].

Kasstan, J. R., Auer A. and J. Salmons (2018). ‘Heritage-language speakers: Theoretical and empirical challenges on sociolinguistic attitudes and prestige’, International Journal of Bilingualism 22(4): 387-394 (https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006918762151) [PDF].

Kasstan, J. R. (2018). ‘Exploring contested authenticity among speakers of a contested language: The case of ‘Francoprovençal’’', Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development 39(5): 382-393 (https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2018.1429451) [PDF].

Kasstan, J. R. and Nagy, N. (2018). ‘Francoprovençal: Documenting contact varieties in Europe and North America’, International Journal of the Sociology of Language 249: 1-9 (https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0050) [Available online].

Zulato, A., Kasstan, J. R. and Nagy, N. (2018). ‘An overview of Francoprovençal vitality in Europe and North America’, International Journal of the Sociology of Language 249: 11-29 (https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0038) [PDF].

Kasstan, J. R. and Müller, D. (2018). ‘(l) as a sociolinguistic variable in Francoprovençal’, International Journal of the Sociology of Language 249: 99-118 (https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0039) [PDF].

Kasstan, J. R. (2017). ‘New speakers: Challenges and opportunities for variationist sociolinguistics’, Language & Linguistics Compass 11(8): e12249 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12249). [PDF].

Kasstan, J. R. (2017). ‘Francoprovençal’, Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0157) [PDF].

Pooley, T. and Kasstan, J. R. (2016). ‘Les variétés régionales non-méridionales de France: nivellement; dédialectalisation; supralocalisation’, Sociolinguistica 30 (1): 175-198. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/soci-2016-0010) [PDF].

Kasstan, J. R. (2015). ‘Illustrations of the IPA: Lyonnais (Francoprovençal)’, Journal of the International Phonetic Association 45 (3): 340-355 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100315000250) [Available online].

Hawkey J. W. and Kasstan J. R. (2015). ‘Regional and minority languages in France: Policies of homogenization or a move towards heterogeneity? A case study on Francoprovençal’, The French Review 89 (2): 110-125 [PDF].