Margaret Deuchar

List of John Benjamins publications in which Margaret Deuchar is involved.

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Building and Using the Siarad Corpus: Bilingual conversations in Welsh and English

Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Webb-Davies and Kevin Donnelly

This book is a research monograph divided into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 81] 2018. vii, 199 pp.

Deuchar, Margaret 2021 Review of Poplack (2018): Borrowing: Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar Lingvisticæ Investigationes 44:1, pp. 144–151 | Review

Prys, Myfyr, Margaret Deuchar and Gwerfyl Roberts 2012 Measuring bilingual accommodation in Welsh rural pharmacies Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 419–436 | Article

This paper introduces a method to address the theoretical and practical question of whether speech accommodation aids compliance in bilingual healthcare settings. It describes a method to measure bilingual speech accommodation in interviews between pharmacists and patients about the use of… read more

Webb-Davies, Peredur and Margaret Deuchar 2010 Using the Matrix Language Frame model to measure the extent of word-order convergence in Welsh-English bilingual speech Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis (eds.), pp. 77–96 | Article

Word-order convergence is argued to be a processual mechanism in which bilinguals use morphemes from language A in an order which is more prominent in language B than in language A. In this chapter we examine whether there is word-order convergence in the speech of Welsh–English bilinguals using… read more

Deuchar, Margaret and Rachel Muntz 2003 Factors accounting for code-mixing in an early developing bilingual (In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism, Müller, Natascha (ed.), pp. 161–190 | Article