Publications

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Articles and chapters

Gopal, Deepthi & Stephen Nichols. Under revision. Naturalness and phonetic grounding in Turkish vowel-height rules.

Coretta, Stefano, Josiane Riverin-Coutlée, Enkeleida Kapia & Stephen Nichols. 2023. Northern Tosk Albanian [IPA Illustration]. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 53(3). 1122–44. DOI: 10.1017/S0025100322000044.

Jeon, Hae-Sung & Stephen Nichols. 2022. Investigating Prosodic Variation in British English Varieties using ProPer. Interspeech 2022, 1313–7. DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2022-792.

Bailey, George, Stephen Nichols, Maciej Baranowski & Danielle Turton. 2022. Affrication as the cause of /s/-retraction: Evidence from Manchester English. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). 1–30. DOI: 10.16995/glossa.8026.

Nichols, Stephen. 2021. Asymmetries in vowel-pair frequencies and height harmony in Bantu. In Akinbiyi Akinlabi et al. (eds.), Celebrating 50 years of ACAL: Selected Papers from the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (Contemporary African Linguistics 7), 245–59. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5578838.

Beavers, John, Michael Everdell, Kyle Jerro, Henri Kauhanen, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Elise LeBovidge & Stephen Nichols. 2021. States and changes of state: A cross-linguistic study of the roots of verbal meaning. Language 97(3). 439–84. DOI: 10.1353/lan.2021.0044.

Beavers, John, Michael Everdell, Kyle Jerro, Henri Kauhanen, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Elise LeBovidge & Stephen Nichols. 2017. Two types of states: A cross-linguistic study of change-of-state verb roots. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America 91. 1–15. DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4094.

Theses and dissertations

Nichols, Stephen. 2021. Explorations in the phonology, typology and grounding of height harmony in five-vowel Bantu languages. PhD thesis, University of Manchester.

Nichols, Stephen. 2015. Topics in the phonology of Konai, a Papuan language of New Guinea. MA dissertation, University of Manchester.

Comments and discussion

Nichols, Stephen. 2020. Discussion in Nancy C. Kula & Nasir A. Syed (authors) ‘Non-myopic nasal spreading in Saraiki’. Radical: A Journal of Phonology, 1, 179–82.