Carmen Llamas

Lecturer
cl558@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 432618

Research interests

I was appointed Lecturer in Sociolinguistics in 2007. My research interests lie in phonological variation and change, and my main focus to date has been on diffusion and levelling in the North-east of England. I am particularly interested in the identity-making and –marking functions of language and also on sociolinguistic fieldwork methods. I am currently working on a 3-year ESRC-funded project Linguistic variation and national identities on the Scottish/English border (AISEB; RES-062-23-0525) with Dominic Watt and Gerry Docherty.

Selected publications

Books

  • Llamas, Carmen & Dominic Watt (eds) (forthcoming 2009) Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

  • Beal, Joan, Lourdes Burbano-Elizondo & Carmen Llamas (in preparation) English from Tyne to Tees: Urban varieties of the North-East of England. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

  • Llamas, Carmen, Louise Mullany & Peter Stockwell (eds) (2007) The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge.

Articles and Conference Proceedings
  • Jones, Mark J. & Carmen Llamas (2008) Fricated realisations of /t/ in Dublin and Middlesbrough English: an acoustic analysis of plosive frication and surface fricative contrasts. English Language and Linguistics 12 (3):  419-443.
  • Llamas, Carmen, Philip Harrison, Damien Donnelly & Dominic Watt (2008) Effects of different types of face coverings on speech acoustics and intelligibility. York Papers in Linguistics.  
  • Llamas, Carmen (2007) ‘A place between places’: language and identities in a border town. Language in Society 36(4): 579-604.
  • Llamas, Carmen (2007) A new methodology: data elicitation for regional and social language variation studies. York Papers in Linguistics: 138-163.
  • Jones, Mark J. & Carmen Llamas (2003) Fricated pre-aspirated /t/ in Middlesbrough English: an acoustic study. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: 123-135.
Book chapters and entries
  • Llamas, Carmen (forthcoming 2009) Convergence and divergence across a national border. In Llamas, Carmen & Dominic Watt (eds) Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Llamas, Carmen (forthcoming) Sociolinguistics. In Simpson, James (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics.
  • Llamas, Carmen (forthcoming) Sociolinguistics. In Malmkjær, Kirsten (ed.) The Linguistics Encyclopedia (3rd edn.). London: Routledge.
  • Llamas, Carmen (2007) Field Methods. In Llamas, Carmen, Louise Mullany & Peter Stockwell (eds) The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge. pp 12-18.
  • Llamas, Carmen (2007) Age. In Llamas, Carmen, Louise Mullany & Peter Stockwell (eds) The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge. pp 69-76.
  • Llamas, Carmen (2006) Shifting identities and orientations in a border town. In Omoniyi, Tope & Goodith White (eds) Sociolinguistics of Identity. London: Continuum. pp 92-112.
  • Llamas, Carmen & Peter Stockwell (2002) Sociolinguistics. In Schmitt, Norbert (ed.) An Introduction to Applied Linguistics. Arnold: London. pp. 93-121.
  • Llamas, Carmen (2001) The sociolinguistic profiling of (r) in Middlesbrough English. In Van de Velde, Hans  & Roeland van Hout (eds) r-atics: Sociolinguistic, phonetic and phonological characteristics of /r/. Brussels: ILVP. pp. 123-140.
  • Kerswill, Paul, Carmen Llamas & Clive Upton (1999) The First SuRE Moves: early steps towards a large dialect project. Leeds Studies in English. 257-269.
  • Upton, Clive & Carmen Llamas (1999) Two language variation surveys large-scale and long-term: a retrospective and a plan. In Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo & Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy (eds) Cuadernos de Filologia Inglesa vol. 8: 291-304.

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