Becky Childs

List of John Benjamins publications in which Becky Childs is involved.

Childs, Becky 2014 Review of Maguire & McMahon (2011): Analysing Variation in English English World-Wide 35:1, pp. 104–108 | Review

Childs, Becky and Gerard Van Herk 2010 Chapter 6. Breaking old habits: Syntactic constraints underlying habitual effects in Newfoundland English Aspect in Grammatical Variation, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 81–93 | Article

Childs, Becky and Christine Mallinson 2004 African American English in Appalachia: Dialect accommodation and substrate influence English World-Wide 25:1, pp. 27–50 | Article

Recent studies of bi-ethnic enclave dialect communities in the American South suggest that earlier versions of African American speech both accommodated local dialect norms and exhibited a persistent substratal effect from the early African-European contact situation. We examine this hypothesis by… read more

Childs, Becky, Jeffrey Reaser and Walt Wolfram 2003 Defining ethnic varieties in the Bahamas: Phonological accommodation in black and white enclave communities Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean, Aceto, Michael and Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Article