Childs, Claire. 2022. That were it: Regional variation in English was/were agreement. Department of Lanugage and Linguistics Seminar Series, University of Essex. [Online]
Childs, Claire. 2021. Expanding the envelopes of grammatical variation. Linguistics Seminar Series, University of Melbourne. [Online]
Childs, Claire. 2020. A variationist approach to interacting variables: Negation and stative possession. Invited contribution to the organised session 'Perspectives on Negation'. Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2020 Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
Childs, Claire. 2018. The present-day interaction of longitudinal changes: Stative possession and negation. The Philological Society Early Career Researcher Forum, University of Sheffield.
Childs, Claire. 2016. Not vs. no in British English dialects: Syntactic, discourse-pragmatic and social effects. Language Variation and Change Research Group, University of Edinburgh.
Peer-reviewed conference presentations
Childs, Claire. 2023. Morpho-syntactic co-variation in English dialects. UK Language Variation and Change 14 (UKLVC14), University of Edinburgh.
Childs, Claire and Beth Cole. 2022. Local versus widespread agreement systems: was/were in British English dialects. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 50 (NWAV50), Stanford University.
Childs, Claire and Beth Cole. 2022. Was/were variation in England: A comparative perspective. Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB) Annual Meeting 2022, Ulster University.
Bailey, Laura and Claire Childs. 2022. Tyneside English bipartite negation: Double negative or negative concord. Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB) Annual Meeting 2022, Ulster University.
Bailey, Laura and Claire Childs. 2022. Isn’t it not negative concord? Bipartite negation in Tyneside English. 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), University of Bucharest.
Childs, Claire, Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt. 2022. Pronoun exchange in the North East of England: Localised patterns in production and perception. 11th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE11), University of Vienna.
Childs, Claire, Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt. 2021. Pronoun exchange in North-Eastern English: Perception versus use. UK Language Variation and Change 13 (UKLVC13), Glasgow [Online].
Childs, Claire, Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt. 2021. “We’ve lived here all wor life”: Pronoun variation in the dialects of the North East of England. International Society for the Linguistics of English 6 (ISLE6), University of Eastern Finland [Online].
Childs, Claire. 2019. Ripping open the envelope of variation: Stative HAVE (GOT) and auxiliary-/negative-contraction in British English. Poster presented at UK Language Variation and Change 12 (UKLVC12), London.
Childs, Claire. 2019. Widening the envelope of variation: Stative HAVE (GOT), negation and contraction’. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 10 (ICLaVE10), Leeuwarden.
Childs, Claire. 2018. Interacting domains of variation: The negation and contraction of possessive HAVE (GOT). Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) Annual Meeting 2018, University of Sheffield.
Childs, Claire. 2016. Interviewer effects on negative tag realisations in North-East England. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change 3 (DiPVaC3), University of Ottawa. Childs, Claire. 2015. Change, innit? The form and function of negative tags in three British English dialects. Manchester Forum in Linguistics (mFiL) 2015, University of Manchester.
Childs, Claire. 2015. Quantitative cross-dialectal insights into the role of syntax and discourse-pragmatics in the use of not, no and negative concord. Poster preesnted at the Gӧttingen Workshop on Negation and Polarity, University of Gӧttingen.
Childs, Claire. 2015. Looks like change, dunnit? Negative polarity tags in three varieties of British English. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 44 (NWAV44), University of Toronto.
Childs, Claire. 2015. Change in progress, innit? A cross-dialectal perspective on negative polarity tags in British English. Poster presented at UK Language Variation and Change 10 (UKLVC10), York.
Childs, Claire, Chris Harvey, Karen Corrigan and Sali Tagliamonte. 2015. Tracking a change in progress: Any- and no-negation in spoken corpora of British and Canadian English. International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English 36 (ICAME36), University of Trier.
Childs, Claire, Chris Harvey, Karen Corrigan and Sali Tagliamonte. 2015. Variation in any- and no-negation from a transatlantic perspective. International Conference on Lanugage Variation in Europe 8 (ICLaVE8), Leipzig.
Childs, Claire, Chris Harvey, Karen Corrigan and Sali Tagliamonte. 2014. Comparative sociolinguistic insights in the evolution of negation. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 43 (NWAV43), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois.
Childs, Claire. 2014. Not or no? Variation in sentential negation across varieties of Northern British English. International Society for the Linguistics of English 3 (ISLE 3), University of Zurich.
Childs, Claire. 2014. A canny bit of variation: The syntactic-semantic distribution of canny in the North East of England. Sociolinguistics Symposium 20 (SS20), Jyväskylä.
Childs, Claire, Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan and Anders Holmberg. 2012. The Northern Subject Rule and verbal -s with conjoined NPs in dialectal English. European Dialect Syntax (EdiSyn) Workshop VI, Queens' College, University of Cambridge. Childs, Claire, Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan and Anders Holmberg. 2011. Geolinguistic patterns in the spatial distribution of the Northern Subject Rule. How Spatial is Dialect Syntax?: Workshop at the International Symposium on Limits and Areas in Dialectology, Lisbon.