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Paul Kerswill publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul Kerswill sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 74 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Paul Kerswill D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul Kerswill sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Paul Kerswill is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on linguistic variation and morphology, multilingual education and policy, as well as phonetics and phonology research. Their work also covers topics related to language, discourse, communication strategies, and linguistics and language evolution.

Their recent published paper is titled "Individual profiles amidst a multiethnolect: Acoustic heterogeneity in London English", published in 2023 in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Andy Gibson
  • Devyani Sharma
  • Kathleen M. McCarthy
  • Elisa Passoni
  • Sam Hellmuth

Paul Kerswill's work is situated mainly within the following fields of study:

  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Psychology

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study include:

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The primary publication venue for their work is The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Creating a new town koine: Children and language change in Milton Keynes

    Paul Kerswill;Ann Williams

  • Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English

    Jenny Cheshire;Paul Kerswill;Susan Fox;Eivind Torgersen

  • Children, adolescents, and language change

    Paul Kerswill

  • Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English

    Paul Kerswill

  • Dialects Converging: Rural Speech in Urban Norway

    Paul Kerswill

  • Koineization and accommodation.

    Paul Kerswill

  • Dialect levelling: change and continuity in Milton Keynes, Reading and Hull.

    Ann Williams;Paul Kerswill

  • 'Salience' as an explanatory factor in language change : evidence from dialect levelling in urban England.

    Paul Kerswill;Ann Williams

  • The study of dialect convergence and divergence: conceptual and methodological considerations

    Frans Hinskens;Peter Auer;Paul Kerswill

  • Ethnicity, friendship network and social practices as the motor of dialect change: Linguistic innovation in London

    Jenny Cheshire;Sue Fox;Paul Kerswill;Eivind Nessa Torgersen

  • Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages

    Peter Auer;Frans Hinskens;Paul Kerswill

  • Internal and external motivation in phonetic change: dialect levelling outcomes for an English vowel shift.

    Eivind Torgersen;Paul Kerswill

  • Migration and language.

    Paul Kerswill

  • New towns and koineization: linguistic and social correlates*

    Paul Kerswill;Ann Williams

  • The birth of new dialects.

    Paul Kerswill;Peter Trudgill

  • Reversing ‘drift’ : Innovation and diffusion in the London diphthong system

    Paul Kerswill;Eivind Nessa Torgersen;Susan Fox

  • The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics

    Ruth Wodak;Barbara Johnstone;Paul Kerswill

  • Models of linguistic change and diffusion: new evidence from dialect levelling in British English *

    Paul Kerswill

  • Dialect Recognition and Speech Community Focusing in New and Old Towns in England: The Effects of Dialect Levelling, Demography and Social Networks

    Paul Kerswill;Ann Williams

  • Phonology, grammar, and discourse in dialect convergence

    Jenny Cheshire;Paul Kerswill;Ann Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Auer
Peter Auer University of Freiburg
Jenny Cheshire
Jenny Cheshire Queen Mary University of London
Jonathan Culpeper
Jonathan Culpeper Lancaster University
Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak Lancaster University
Janet Holmes
Janet Holmes Victoria University of Wellington
Peter Trudgill
Peter Trudgill University of Fribourg

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