Publications

Books

  • Elspaß, Stephan, Imke Mendoza, Bernhard Pöll & Erik Schleef. 2025. Double standards: Codified norms and norms of usage in European languages (1600-2020). Berlin: Peter Lang.
  • Meyerhoff, Miriam, Erik Schleef & Laurel MacKenzie. 2015. Doing sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Meyerhoff, Miriam & Erik Schleef. 2010. The Routledge sociolinguistics reader. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Schleef, Erik. 2005. Navigating joint activities in English and German academic discourse: Form, function, and sociolinguistic distribution of discourse markers and question tags. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI dissertation.

Journal articles and book chapters

  • Wirtz, Mason & Erik Schleef. Accepted. Investigating variation and change using experimental approaches. In Yoshiyuki Asahi, Alexandra D’Arcy & Paul Kerswill (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Schleef, Erik, Evelyn Roth, Jana Pflaeging & Bradley Mackay. 2025. Noticing, identifying and discriminating sociolinguistic variants in England. English Language and Linguistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674324000625
  • Schleef, Erik, Bradley Mackay & Jana Pflaeging. 2025. Frequency-based professionalism evaluation of (ING) and (T)-deletion in England and Pennsylvania. Journal of English Linguistics 53(2). 163-193. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00754242251343912
  • Pflaeging, Jana, Bradley Mackay & Erik Schleef. 2025. Sociolinguistic Monitoring and L2 Speakers of English. Linguistics 63(3). 607-638. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2023-0073
  • Elspaß, Stephan, Imke Mendoza, Bernhard Pöll & Erik Schleef. 2025. Double Standards: Codified norms and norms of usage in European languages (1600-2020). Introduction. In Stephan Elspaß, Imke Mendoza, Bernhard Pöll & Erik Schleef (eds.), Double standards: Codified norms and norms of usage in European languages (1600-2020). Berlin: Peter Lang.
  • Schleef, Erik. 2024. Review of Kircher, Ruth and Lena Zipp (eds.). Research methods in language attitudes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. English Language and Linguistics 28(4). 803-810. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674323000473
  • Coretta, Stefano, Joseph V. Casillas, Timo B. Roettger, Erik Schleef, et al. 2023. Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 6(3). 1-29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231162567
  • Schleef, Erik. 2023. Mechanisms of meaning making in the co-occurrence of pragmatic markers with silent pauses. Language in Society 52(1). 79-105. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404521000610
  • Schleef, Erik. 2022. Measuring language attitudes. In Kimberly Geeslin (ed.), The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics, 212-223. London & New York: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003017325-20
  • Schleef, Erik & Bradley Mackay. 2022. Evaluation of pragmatic markers: The case of you know. In Elizabeth Peterson, Joseph Kern & Turo Hiltunen (eds.), Discourse-pragmatic variation and change: Theory, innovations, contact, 40-60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108864183.004
  • Schleef, Erik. 2021. Individual differences in intra-speaker variation: /t/-glottalling in England and Scotland. Linguistics Vanguard 7(s2). 20200033. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2020-0033
  • Schleef, Erik. 2020. Identity and indexicality in the study of World Englishes. In Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hundt & Edgar W. Schneider (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of World Englishes, 609-632. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Schleef, Erik. 2019. The evaluation of unfilled pauses: Limits of the prestige, solidarity and dynamism dimensions. Lingua 228. 1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2019.06.008
  • Speyer, Lydia & Erik Schleef. 2019. Processing ‘gender-neutral’ pronouns: A self-paced reading study of learners of English. Applied Linguistics 40(5). 793-815. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amy022
  • Schleef, Erik & Danielle Turton. 2018. Sociophonetic variation of like in British dialects: Effects of function, context and predictability. English Language and Linguistics 22(1). 35-75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S136067431600023X
  • Davydova, Julia, Agnieszka Ewa Tytus & Erik Schleef. 2017. Acquisition of sociolinguistic awareness by German learners of English: A study in perceptions of quotative be like. Linguistics 55(4). 783-812. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0011
  • Schleef, Erik, Nicholas Flynn & Will Barras. 2017. Regional diversity in social perceptions of (ing). Language Variation and Change 29(1). 29-56. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954394517000047
  • Schleef, Erik. 2017. Social meanings across listener groups: When do social factors matter? Journal of English Linguistics 45(1). 28-59. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424216686149
  • Schleef, Erik. 2017. Developmental sociolinguistics and the acquisition of T-glottalling by immigrant teenagers in London. In Gunther de Vogelaer & Matthias Katerbow (eds.), Acquiring sociolinguistic variation, 305-341. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/silv.20.11sch
  • Drummond, Rob & Erik Schleef. 2016. Identity in variationist sociolinguistics. In Siân Preece (ed.), The Routledge handbook of language and identity, 50-65. London & New York: Routledge. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315669816
  • Schleef, Erik, Nicholas Flynn & Michael Ramsammy. 2015. Production and perception of (ing) in Manchester English. In Eivind Torgersen, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum & Unn Røyneland (eds.), Language variation: European perspectives V, 197-209. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Schleef, Erik & Nicholas Flynn. 2015. Ageing meanings of (ing) in Manchester, England. English World-Wide 36(1). 48-90. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.36.1.04sch
  • Strycharz-Banas, Anna M., Erik Schleef & Miriam Meyerhoff. 2014. Socjolingwistyka a imigracja: zróżnicowanie językowe polskich nastolatków w Edynburgu. Socjolingwistyka 28. 137-152. Web
  • Meyerhoff, Miriam & Erik Schleef. 2014. Hitting an Edinburgh target: Immigrant adolescents’ acquisition of variation in Edinburgh English. In Robert Lawson (ed.), Sociolinguistic perspectives on Scotland, 103-128. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
  • Schleef, Erik. 2014. Written surveys and questionnaires in sociolinguistics. In Janet Holmes & Kirk Hazen (eds.), Research methods in sociolinguistics, 42-57. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
  • Schleef, Erik. 2013. Glottal replacement of /t/ in two British capitals: Effects of word frequency and morphological compositionality. Language Variation and Change 25(2). 201-223. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394513000094
  • Schleef, Erik & Michael Ramsammy. 2013. Labio-dental fronting of /θ/ in London and Edinburgh: A cross-dialectal study. English Language and Linguistics 17(1). 25-54. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674312000317
  • Schleef, Erik. 2013. Migrant teenagers’ acquisition of sociolinguistic variation: The variables (ing) and (t). In Peter Auer, Javier Caro Reina & Göz Kaufmann (eds.), Language variation: European perspectives IV, 201-213. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Meyerhoff, Miriam & Erik Schleef. 2012. Variation, contact and social indexicality in the acquisition of (ing) by teenage migrants. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16(3). 398-416. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2012.00535.x
  • Schleef, Erik. 2012. Sprache und Geschlecht im universitären Diskurs. Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 40(1). 1-34. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2012-0002
  • Schleef, Erik & Miriam Meyerhoff. 2011. Creating gender distinctions: Migrant teens’ acquisition of sociolinguistic variation. In Robert McColl Millar & Mercedes Durham (eds.), Applied Linguistics global and local: Proceedings of the 43rd annual meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, 227-232. London: Scitsiugnil Press.
  • Schleef, Erik, Miriam Meyerhoff & Lynn Clark. 2011. Teenagers’ acquisition of variation: A comparison of locally-born and migrant teens’ realisation of English (ing) in Edinburgh and London. English World-Wide 32(2). 206-236. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.32.2.04sch
  • Clark, Lynn & Erik Schleef. 2010. The acquisition of sociolinguistic evaluations among Polish-born adolescents learning English: Evidence from perception. Language Awareness 19(4). 299-322. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2010.524301
  • Schleef, Erik & Miriam Meyerhoff. 2010. Sociolinguistic methods for data collection and interpretation. In Miriam Meyerhoff & Erik Schleef (eds.), The Routledge sociolinguistics reader, 1-26. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Meyerhoff, Miriam, Erik Schleef & Lynn Clark. 2010. Becoming local: Exploring adolescents’ sociolinguistic limits and potential. In Martin Edwardes (ed.), Proceedings of the BAAL annual conference 2009, 93-97. London: Scitsiugnil Press.
  • Schleef, Erik. 2009. A cross-cultural investigation of German and American academic style. Journal of Pragmatics 41(6). 1104-1124. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.01.002
  • Schleef, Erik. 2009. A cross-cultural comparison of the functions and sociolinguistic distribution of English and German tag questions and discourse markers in academic speech. In Eija Suomela-Salmi & Fred Dervin (eds.), Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives on academic discourse, 61-80. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Schleef, Erik. 2009. Testing times for new citizens: Media discourses around citizenship tests in three countries. In Martin Edwardes (ed.), Proceedings of the BAAL annual conference 2008, 99-102. London: Scitsiugnil Press.
  • Schleef, Erik. 2008. Gender and academic discourse: Global restrictions and local possibilities. Language in Society 37(4). 515-538. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404508080755
  • Schleef, Erik. 2008. The ‘lecturer’s ok’ revisited: Changing discourse conventions and the influence of academic division. American Speech 83(1). 62-84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2008-003
  • Schleef, Erik. 2006. The academic lecture in Germany and the US: Cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural variation. In Cristina Mourón Figueroa & Teresa Moralejo Gárate (eds.), Studies in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th international contrastive linguistics conference, 931-940. Santiago de Compostela: University of Santiago de Compostela Press.
  • Schleef, Erik. 2005. Gender, power, discipline, and context: On the sociolinguistic variation of okay, right, like, and you know in English academic discourse. In Chiho Sunakawa, Tomoko Ikeda, Shannon Finch & Malavika Shetty (eds.), Texas linguistic forum 48, 177-186. Austin, Texas: Department of Linguistics.
  • Schleef, Erik. 2003. Prosody and narrative structure in varieties of Low German and Alemannic. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 15(4). 325-357. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542703000333

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