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| Name: | Paul A Johnston (IPA: pɔɫ ʤɑnstn) |
| Institution: | Western Michigan University |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| State and/or Country: |
MI USA |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Sociolinguistics |
| Subject Language(s): |
Dutch English Frisian, Western Frisian, Northern Frisian, Eastern Plautdietsch Scots Saxon, Low Dutch, Middle English, Middle English, Old Frisian, Old German, Old High Dutch, Old German, Middle Low |
| Language Family(ies): |
Germanic |
| Selected Publications: |
. 'Lass' Law and West Germanic vowel shifts'
'The rise and fall of the Morningside/Kelvinside accent'. 'Irregular variation patterns in Edinburgh speech'. 'English vowel shifting: a Great Vowel Shift or two 'Small Vowel Shifts' 'The dialect of A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge.' 'Older Scots Dialectology and Phonology: Before 1700' 'The Dialectology of Modern Scots: 1700 to the Present' |
| Courses Taught: | Phonetics; Phonology; Dialectology; Sociolinguistics; Older Scots; Modern Scots; History of the English Language; Structure of the English Language; Old English; Middle English; Language, Dialects and Sociolinguistics; World Englishes; Language of Michigan |
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