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Publications

Brato, Thorsten. i.p. "Diachronic change in the progressive in Ghanaian English".

Brato, Thorsten. fc. Ghana. In Raymond Hickey & Kate Burridge (eds.), New Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume VI: Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schmalz, Mirjam, Sarah Buschfeld, Manuela Vida-Mannl & Thorsten Brato (eds.). fc. Acquisition and variation in World Englishes: Bridging paradigms and rethinking approaches. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Regnoli, Giuliana & Thorsten Brato. fc. "Speech rhythm in Cameroon English: a cross-generational study". In Mirjam Schmalz, Sarah Buschfeld, Manuela Vida-Mannl & Thorsten Brato (eds.), Acquisition and variation in World Englishes: Bridging paradigms and rethinking approaches. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Brato, Thorsten. 2022. Studying vowels in African Englishes: Past, present, and future. In Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf, Thomas Hoffmann & Augustin Simo Bobda (eds.), World Englishes and Creole languages today: Vol. II: The Bobdian Thinking and Beyond. Muenchen: Lincom, 41-61.

Meer, Phillip, Thorsten Brato &  Jose Alejandro Matute Flores. 2021. "Extending automatic vowel formant extraction to New Englishes: A comparison of different methods", English World-Wide 42(1), 54-84, https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00060.mee.

Brato, Thorsten. 2020a. “Extra- and intraterritorial forces in the development of Ghanaian English”. In Sarah Buschfeld & Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), Modelling current linguistic realities of English world-wide: the Extra- and Intra-territorial Forces Model put to the test. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 371-394,

Brato, Thorsten. 2020b. "Noun phrase complexity in Ghanaian English". World Englishes 39(3), 377-393, https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12479

Brato, Thorsten. 2019a. “The Historical Corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana): Motivation, Compilation, Opportunities”. In Alexandra Esimaje, Ulrike Gut & Bassey E. Antia (eds.), Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 119-141.

Brato, Thorsten. 2019b. “Lexical expansion in Ghanaian English from a diachronic perspective: A structural and semantic analysis”. In Alexandra Esimaje, Ulrike Gut & Bassey E. Antia (eds.), Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 259-291.

Brato, Thorsten. 2018. “'Outdooring' the Historical Corpus of English in Ghana”. English Today 34 (2), 25–34, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078417000517

Brato, Thorsten. 2016. Variation and change in Aberdeen English: A sociophonetic study. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Brato, Thorsten. 2016. “Review: Ole Schützler - A sociophonetic approach to Scottish Standard English”. English Language and Linguistics 20 (2), 364–369.

Brato, Thorsten. 2015. “A pilot study of acoustic features of word-final affricated /t/ and /ts/ in educated Ghanaian English”. In Rita Calabrese, J. K. Chambers & Gerhard Leitner (eds.), Language Variation and Change in Postcolonial Contexts. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 61-78.

Brato, Thorsten. 2014. “Accent variation and change in North-East Scotland: the case of (HW) in Aberdeen”. In Robert Lawson (ed.), Sociolinguistics in Scotland: Current Perspectives on Scots, Scottish English and Gaelic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 32–52.

Brato, Thorsten. 2012. A Sociophonetic Study of Aberdeen English: Innovation and Conservatism. Gießen: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, PhD thesis.

Brato, Thorsten & Magnus Huber. 2012. “English in Africa”. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Areal Features of the Anglophone World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 161–185.

Brato, Thorsten. 2011. “’Arrah, ye comin’ oo’ for a game o’ fi’ba ren?’ vs. ’Hello, you coming out for a game of soccer tonight?’: Jugendkultur und Sprachwandel in Aberdeen”. In Janine Hauthal, Martin Zierold & Horst Carl (eds.), Kulturwissenschaften exemplarisch: Gießener Forschungsbeiträge zu acht Kernkompetenzen. Trier: WVT, 115–135.

Brand, Christiane, Thorsten Brato, Stefanie Dose & Sandra Götz. 2010. “Norms in educational linguistics: An introduction”. In Stefanie Dose, Sandra Götz, Thorsten Brato & Christiane Brand (eds.), Norms in Educational Linguistics: Linguistic, didactic and cultural perspectives - Normen in Educational Linguistics: Sprachwissenschaftliche, didaktische und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1–7.

Dose, Stefanie, Sandra Götz, Thorsten Brato & Christiane Brand (eds.). 2010. Norms in Educational Linguistics: Linguistic, didactic and cultural perspectives - Normen in Educational Linguistics: Sprachwissenschaftliche, didaktische und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Brato, Thorsten. 2007. “Accent variation in adolescents in Aberdeen: First results for (hw) and (th)”. In Jürgen Trouvain & William J. Barry (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes, 1489–1492.

Brato, Thorsten. 2006. “Rez. ’Danielle A.V. Löw-Wiebach. Language Attitudes and Language Use in Pitmedden (Aberdeenshire). Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005’”. KULT_online, www.post-graduates.net/wps/pgn/home/KULT_online/11-5/.


  1. Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Cultures
  2. Department of English and American Studies

English Linguistics

Dr. Thorsten Brato

Dr. Thorsten Brato

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