My University of York research repository: https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/claire-childs(3c9c1a09-823e-4cfa-b6b5-423e680fa596).html
My academia.edu page: https://york.academia.edu/ClaireChilds
NB: If you are interested in findings from my 2017 PhD thesis, Variation and Change in English Negation: A Cross-Dialectal Perspective, the main results were subsequently published in journal articles that are part of the list below.
Publications
Childs, Claire. Forthcoming. Sociosyntax and the weight of the linguistic within sociolinguistics. In Daniel Duncan and Mary Robinson (eds) Current Approaches to Sociosyntax. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Childs, Claire. 2025. What counts as ‘saying the same thing’? Variables and variants in English negation. In Frances Blanchette and Cynthia Lukyanenko (eds) Perspectives on Negation: Views from Across the Language Sciences. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. 253-288.
Bailey, Laura R. and Claire Childs. 2024. Two negatives in Tyneside English questions: Negative concord or double negation?. In Johan van der Auwera and Chiara Gianollo (eds) Negative Concord: A Hundred Years On. Berlin: De Gruyter. 269-302.
Childs, Claire and Beth Cole. 2023. Supralocal or localized?: Was/were variation in British English dialects. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 29(2): 59-69.
Childs, Claire. 2021. Mechanisms of grammaticalization in the variation of negative question tags. Journal of English Linguistics 49: 419-458. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00754242211044837
Childs, Claire. 2021. The grammaticalisation of never in British English dialects: Quantifying syntactic and functional change. Journal of Linguistics 57: 531-568. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226720000092
Childs, Claire, Chris Harvey, Karen P. Corrigan and Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2020. Transatlantic perspectives on variation in negative expressions. English Language and Linguistics 24: 23-47. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674318000199
Childs, Claire. 2019. Interviewer effects on the phonetic reduction of negative tags, innit? Journal of Pragmatics 142: 31-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.12.020
Childs, Claire. 2017. Integrating syntactic theory and variationist analysis: The structure of negative indefinites in regional dialects of British English. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 2(1): Article 106. 1-31. Open Access, available here: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.287
Childs, Claire. 2016. Canny good, or quite canny? The semantic-syntactic distribution of canny in the North East of England. English World-Wide 37: 238-266. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.37.3.01chi
Childs, Claire, Chris Harvey, Karen P. Corrigan and Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2015. Comparative sociolinguistic insights in the evolution of negation. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 21(2): 21-30.
Childs, Claire. 2013. “I couldn’t really put [mə] finger on it”: Phonetic realisations of the possessive singular ‘my’ in Tyneside English. Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected Papers from Sociolinguistics Summer School 4 19(1): 42-66.
Childs, Claire. 2013. Verbal –s and the Northern Subject Rule: Spatial variation in linguistic and sociolinguistic constraints. In Ernestina Carrilho, Catarina Magro and Xosé Álvarez (eds) Current Approaches to Limits and Areas in Dialectology. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. 311-344.
Edited volumes
Roberts, Nicholas S. and Claire Childs (eds). 2013. Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Sociolinguistics Summer School 4, Volume 19(1).
Book reviews
Childs, Claire. 2016. Review of Bamford, J., Cavalieri, S. and Diani, G. (Eds). (2013) Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. In Jesús Romero-Trillo (ed.) Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2016: Global Implications for Society and Education in the Networked Age. Dordrecht: Springer. 275-280.