Research

• Reviews for academic books provided for LinguististList (see

http://linguistlist.org) and the BAAL magazine.

A number of papers presented at national and international conferences

including the following:
• Priming as a marker of dialect in speech communities:
Intensifiers in spoken informal Scouse and in spoken informal UK English
(ELeGI, Hanover 2006).
• Traces of Lexical Priming in English and German Uses of BE and HAVE
Forms in Biographies (University of Lancaster & CL 2007, Birmingham:
http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/corplingproceedings07/paper/52_Paper.p
df).
• A sociolinguistic justification for using a spoken Liverpool Corpus
(University of Warwick, 2008).
• Why TO is a weird word. Staff and Postgraduate Language Research
Seminar 2009. University of Liverpool.
• Lexical Priming. Workshop presented at the Postgraduate Seminar, May
2010. University of Granada.
• Variations in the use of “I” in casually spoken English. 2010. In:
Language Windowing through Corpora. I. Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño; B.
Crespo García; I. Lareo Martín; P. Lojo Sandino (eds.). Universidade da
Coruña. A Coruña.

Further research presentations can be found on the following websites:

• http://tinyurl.com/Sigge-Eng-Lang
• http://www.scribd.com/Hathon