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Name:	Stephen  Laker
Institution:	Kyushu University
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Homepage:	http://stephenlaker.wordpress.com/
State and/or Country:	Japan
Linguistic Field(s):	Historical Linguistics Phonetics Phonology Sociolinguistics Typology
Specialty:	Historical Linguistics
Subject Language(s):	Dutch English German Japanese Welsh
Selected Publications:	Editing: 2011: Languages of Early Britain. Special issue of Transactions of the Philological Society 109(2). (With Paul Russell) 2010: Problems in English Historical Phonology. Special issue of journal Anglia 127(2). (With Robert Mailhammer) 2007: Advances in Old Frisian Philology. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. (With Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr & Oebele Vries) Articles: 2009b: On the geography and date of the merger /kw/, /hw/ > /χw/. In Esa Penttila & Heli Paulasto (eds.), Language Contacts Meet English Dialects: Studies in Honour of Markku Filppula. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 179–198. 2009a: An explanation for the early phonemicisation of a voice contrast in English fricatives. English Language and Linguistics 13(2), 213–226. (doi: 10.1017/S1360674309002998) 2008b: Changing views about Anglo-Saxons and Britons. In Henk Aertsen & Bart Veldhoen (eds.), Six papers from the 28th Symposium on Medieval Studies held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on 15 December 2006. Leiden: Leiden University Department of English, 1–38. 2008a: The English negative comparative particle. Transactions of the Philological Society 106(1), 1–28. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2007.00191.x) 2007: Palatalization of velars: A major link of Old English and Old Frisian. In Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Stephen Laker & Oebele Vries. (eds.), Advances in Old Frisian Philology. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 165–184. 2005: Earliest Middle English ne ‘than’. Notes & Queries 52(2), 163–164. (With Rolf H. Bremmer Jr.) (doi: 10.1093/notesj/gji205) 2003: PGMC. +drepa-, G treffen ‘TO HIT’. Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 8, 103–110. (With Robert Mailhammer and Theo Vennemann) 2002b: Zur Vergleichspartikel was im Bairischen. Sprachwissenschaft 27(4), 397–416. 2002a: An explanation for the changes kw-, hw- > χw- in the English dialects. In Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola & Heli Pitkänen (eds.), The Celtic Roots of English, Joensuu: Joensuu University Press, 183–198. Other: 2011: Languages of Early Britain: Introduction. In Languages of Early Britain. Special issue of Transactions of the Philological Society 109(2), 109–112. (With Paul Russell) (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2011.01280.x) 2010: Introduction. In Problems in English Historical Phonology. Special issue of Anglia 127(2), 173–175. (With Robert Mailhammer) (doi: 10.1515/angl.2009.025) 2002: Germanisches und Nicht-Germanisches im Deutschen und Englishen. MA thesis, University of Munich. Book Reviews 2006: Dossena, Marina & Roger Lass (eds.). 2004. Methods and Data in English Historical Dialectology. Bern: Peter Lang. Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics 6. 2003: Minkova, Donka. 2003. Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English. [= Cambridge Studies in Language 101.] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. LinguistList 14.2625.
Announced on LINGUIST :	Advances in Old Frisian Philology
Courses Taught:	Academic Writing Analysing Variation in English Using Corpora English Around the World English in Britain English Words History of the English Language Introduction to Old English Investigating English Dialects Language Change Linguistic Typology English Phonetics and Phonology Structure of Germanic Languages The History of English Dialects Varieties of English
Reviewer of:	Historical Linguistics/Phonology: Minkova (2002) (LL Issue 14.2625)
Academic Paper Abstract:	An Explanation for the Early Phonemicisation of a Voice Contrast in English Fricatives
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