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Llamas, C. & Watt, D. (forthcoming 2008). Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Watt, D. & Allen, W. (2003). Illustrations of the IPA: Tyneside English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33(2): 267-271.*

Watt, D., Docherty, G.J., & Foulkes, P. (2003). First accent acquisition: a study of phonetic variation in child-directed speech. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, August 2003. 1959-1962.

Watt, D. & Fabricius, A. (2003). Evaluation of a technique for improving the mapping of multiple speakers' vowel spaces in the F1~F2 plane. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics & Phonetics 9: 159-173.

Watt, D. (2002). 'I don't speak with a Geordie accent, I speak, like, the Northern accent': contact-induced levelling in the Tyneside vowel system. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6(1): 44-63.*

Foulkes, P., Docherty, G.J. & Watt, D. (2001). The emergence of structured variation. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 7(3): 67-84.

Watt, D. & Tillotson, J. (2001). A spectrographic analysis of vowel fronting in Bradford English. English World-Wide 22(2): 269-302.*

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Watt, D. & Ingham, C. (2000). Durational evidence of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Berwick English. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics & Phonetics 8: 205-228.*

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Foulkes, P., Docherty, G. & Watt, D. (1999). Tracking the emergence of structured variation: realisations of (t) by Newcastle children. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics & Phonetics 7: 1-25.

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