/peer-reviewed articles

Blasi, D., Schmid, M., Kasstan, J. R., Poblete, M., Hammarström, H., Gray, R. & R. Zariquiey. (in prep). World’s surviving 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 (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].