Bibliography

Martin J.
Ball
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Works authored

Ball, Martin J., and Nicole Müller, Mutation in Welsh, London: Routledge, 1992.

Theses

Ball, Martin J., “Sociolinguistic aspects of the Welsh mutation system”, PhD thesis (unpublished), University of Wales, 1984.
Ball, Martin J., “Towards a description of the North Welsh monophthongs”, MA thesis (unpublished), University of Essex, 1976.

Works edited

Ball, Martin J., and Nicole Müller (eds), The Celtic languages, 2nd ed., Routledge Language Family Descriptions, London, New York: Routledge, 2009.
Ball, Martin J., and James Fife (eds), The Celtic languages, Routledge Language Family Descriptions, London, New York: Routledge, 1993.
Ball, Martin J., James Fife, Erich Poppe, and Jenny Rowland (eds), Celtic linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: readings in the Brythonic languages. Festschrift for T. Arwyn Watkins, Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, 4.68, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1990.  
comments: The volume is divided into four sections:
  1. Studies in Welsh linguistics (with contributions by Evans, Awbery, Thomas, Thomas, Jones, Fife, Borsley and Ball)
  2. Studies in Breton and Cornish linguistics (Humphreys, Stevens, Hewitt, Timm, Hennessey, George and Williams)
  3. Studies in literary linguistics (Sims-Williams, Haycock, Rowland, Tristram and Caerwyn Williams)
  4. Studies in historical linguistics (Zimmer, Harvey, Mac Cana, Meid, Hamp and Poppe).
comments: The volume is divided into four sections:
  1. Studies in Welsh linguistics (with contributions by Evans, Awbery, Thomas, Thomas, Jones, Fife, Borsley and Ball)
  2. Studies in Breton and Cornish linguistics (Humphreys, Stevens, Hewitt, Timm, Hennessey, George and Williams)
  3. Studies in literary linguistics (Sims-Williams, Haycock, Rowland, Tristram and Caerwyn Williams)
  4. Studies in historical linguistics (Zimmer, Harvey, Mac Cana, Meid, Hamp and Poppe).
Ball, Martin J. (ed.), The use of Welsh: a contribution to sociolinguistics, Multilingual Matters, 36, Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1988. x + 341 pp.  
comments: The twenty contributions in this book are divided into six parts:
  • Part I: Linguistic variation in Welsh (chapters 1-3: introduction and Accounting for linguistic variation);
  • Part II: Variations and levels of language (chapters 4-7);
  • Part III: Studies of the use of Welsh (chapters 8-10);
  • Part IV: Non-geographical varieties of Welsh (chapters 11-14: from Literary Welsh to Cymraeg Byw);
  • Part V: Children’s use of Welsh (chapters 15-18); and
  • Part VI: Theoretical implications (chapters 19-20).
comments: The twenty contributions in this book are divided into six parts:
  • Part I: Linguistic variation in Welsh (chapters 1-3: introduction and Accounting for linguistic variation);
  • Part II: Variations and levels of language (chapters 4-7);
  • Part III: Studies of the use of Welsh (chapters 8-10);
  • Part IV: Non-geographical varieties of Welsh (chapters 11-14: from Literary Welsh to Cymraeg Byw);
  • Part V: Children’s use of Welsh (chapters 15-18); and
  • Part VI: Theoretical implications (chapters 19-20).
Ball, Martin J., and Glyn E. Jones (eds), Welsh phonology. Selected readings, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1984.

Contributions to journals

Ball, Martin J., “The paradigm economy principle and Welsh verbal morphology”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 47 (1995): 235–247.
Ball, Martin J., “The transcription of suprasegmentals in Welsh”, Journal of the International Phonetic Association 19 (1989): 89–96.
Ball, Martin J., “Voicing and Welsh fricatives”, Cardiff Working Papers in Welsh Linguistics 6 (1989): 23–32.
Ball, Martin J., “The erosion of the Welsh pre-sentential particle system: a generative account”, Studia Celtica 22–23 (1987–1988): 134–145.
Ball, Martin J., “Analogic levelling in Welsh prepositions”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 42 (1987): 362–365.
Ascott, F. M., and Martin J. Ball, “Measuring language proficiency in bilingual children: a preliminary study from Welsh”, Cardiff Working Papers in Welsh Linguistics 5 (1987): 29–41.
Ball, Martin J., “Exploring stylistic variation in the aspirate mutation of Welsh”, Études Celtiques 23 (1986): 255–264.  
abstract:
Examen des tests linguistiques permettant de mesurer l'emploi de la mutation spirante, qui a tendance à disparaître de l’usage en gallois moderne.
Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 23, 1986: <link>
abstract:
Examen des tests linguistiques permettant de mesurer l'emploi de la mutation spirante, qui a tendance à disparaître de l’usage en gallois moderne.
Ball, Martin J., “The reporter’s test as a sociolinguistic tool”, Language in Society 15 (1986): 375–386.
Ball, Martin J., “An error recognition test as a measure of linguistic competence: an example from Welsh”, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 14 (1985): 399–407.
Ball, Martin J., “Phonological variation in the personal pronouns in Welsh”, Cardiff Working Papers in Welsh Linguistics 4 (1985): 25–30.
Ball, Martin J., “Radio Cymru: programme style and linguistic variation”, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 6 (1985): 157–163.
Ball, Martin J., Martin Duckworth, and Siân Munro, “The transcription of disordered speech in Welsh”, Cardiff Working Papers in Welsh Linguistics 3 (1984): 21–30.
Ball, Martin J., “Descriptions of the vowels of North Welsh: a review”, Studia Celtica 16–17 (1983/1981–1982): 191–208.
Ball, Martin J., “A spectrographic investigation of three Welsh diphthongs”, Journal of the International Phonetic Association 13 (1983): 82–89.
Ball, Martin J., “Stylistic variation in radio broadcasts: an introductory study”, Cardiff Working Papers in Welsh Linguistics 2 (1982): 17–24.
Ball, Martin J., “Data collection techniques for a sociolinguistic study of the Welsh mutation system”, Cardiff Working Papers in Welsh Linguistics 1 (1981): 10–18.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Ball, Martin J., “The Welsh lateral fricative: lateral or fricative?”, in: Martin J. Ball, James Fife, Erich Poppe, and Jenny Rowland (eds), Celtic linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: readings in the Brythonic languages. Festschrift for T. Arwyn Watkins, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 4.68, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1990. 109–125.
Ball, Martin J., “The study of pronunciation patterns”, in: Martin J. Ball (ed.), The use of Welsh: a contribution to sociolinguistics, 36, Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1988. 49–57.
Ball, Martin J., “Variation in grammar”, in: Martin J. Ball (ed.), The use of Welsh: a contribution to sociolinguistics, 36, Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1988. 58–69.
Ball, Martin J., “Variation in the use of initial consonant mutations”, in: Martin J. Ball (ed.), The use of Welsh: a contribution to sociolinguistics, 36, Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1988. 70–81.
Ball, Martin J., Tweli Griffiths, and Glyn E. Jones, “Broadcast Welsh”, in: Martin J. Ball (ed.), The use of Welsh: a contribution to sociolinguistics, 36, Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1988. 182–199.
Ball, Martin J., “Accounting for linguistic variation: dialectology”, in: Martin J. Ball (ed.), The use of Welsh: a contribution to sociolinguistics, 36, Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1988. 7–23.
Ball, Martin J., “Variation in mutation — where do the variable rules go?”, in: Martin J. Ball (ed.), The use of Welsh: a contribution to sociolinguistics, 36, Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1988. 307–318.
Ball, Martin J., “Accounting for linguistic variation: sociolinguistics”, in: Martin J. Ball (ed.), The use of Welsh: a contribution to sociolinguistics, 36, Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1988. 24–38.
Ball, Martin J., “Phonetics for phonology”, in: Martin J. Ball, and Glyn E. Jones (eds), Welsh phonology. Selected readings, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1984. 5–39.