Carmen LlamasCarmen Llamas lectures in sociolinguistics at the University of York. She is co-editor (with Dominic Watt) of Language and Identities (2010) and (with Peter Stockwell and Louise Mullany) of The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics (2007). Her reserch deals primarily with phonological variation and change in the North East and the Scottish-English border region. Read More Read Less