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| English in modern times JC Beal Routledge, 2014 | 377 | 2014 |
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| Enregisterment, commodification, and historical context:“Geordie” versus “Sheffieldish” JC Beal American Speech 84 (2), 138-156, 2009 | 190 | 2009 |
| Introduction to regional Englishes JC Beal Edinburgh University Press, 2010 | 174 | 2010 |
| “You’re Not from New York City, You’re from Rotherham” Dialect and Identity in British Indie Music JC Beal Journal of English Linguistics 37 (3), 223-240, 2009 | 171 | 2009 |
| English pronunciation in the eighteenth century: Thomas Spence's Grand repository of the English language JC Beal Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 | 155 | 2002 |
| English dialects in the North of England: morphology and syntax J Beal A handbook of varieties of English 2, 114-141, 2004 | 154 | 2004 |
| Urban North-Eastern English: Tyneside to Teesside JC Beal Edinburgh University Press, 2012 | 125 | 2012 |
| From Geordie Ridley to Viz: popular literature in Tyneside English JC Beal Language and Literature 9 (4), 343-359, 2000 | 99 | 2000 |
| English dialects in the North of England: Phonology J Beal Varieties of English 1, 122-144, 2008 | 90 | 2008 |
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| Geordie Nation”: Language and regional identity in the north-east of England JC Beal Lore and Language 17 (1-2), 33-48, 1999 | 72 | 1999 |
| A linguistic ‘time capsule’: the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English W Allen, JC Beal, KP Corrigan, W Maguire, HL Moisl Creating and digitizing language corpora: Volume 2: Diachronic Databases, 16-48, 2007 | 68 | 2007 |
| Syntax and morphology J Beal The Edinburgh history of the Scots language, 335-377, 1997 | 67 | 1997 |
| A reader in sociophonetics V Gast, DR Preston, N Niedzielski De Gruyter, 2010 | 58 | 2010 |
| Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 1: Synchronic Databases J Beal, K Corrigan, H Moisl Springer, 2007 | 56 | 2007 |
| Three hundred years of prescriptivism (and counting) JC Beal Current issues in late modern English 77, 35-56, 2009 | 52 | 2009 |
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