Publications

Articles

• Booth, Joshua, Felicia Stich, Isabella Fritz & Aditi Lahiri. In Press. Through dick and dünn: Cognates and the legacy of diachronic change in synchronic language processing Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. [PDF]
• Booth, Joshua & Aditi Lahiri. In Press. (Non-)alternating umlaut in English and German: Whither /y/? Phonology. [PDF]
• Lahiri, Aditi, Joshua Booth, Isabella Fritz, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Johanneke Sytsema & Hilary Wynne. In Press. ‘Pertinacity in diachrony and synchrony’, in Historical Linguistics 2023. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [PDF]
• Booth, Joshua & Aditi Lahiri. 2023. ‘Foot Structure in Germanic’. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 20th September 2023. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.962 [PDF]
• Booth, Joshua. 2023. Open syllable lengthening and diphthongisation in Upper Middle High German: Evidence from verse. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 26: 5. DOI: 10.1007/s10828-023-09145-3
• Booth, Joshua. 2023. Rethinking the metre of Parzival: Iambic verse for a trochaic language. Transactions of the Philological Society 121(1): 91–116. DOI: 10.1111/TRPS.12257

Conference Talks

• Booth, Joshua & Aditi Lahiri. 2025. ‘Initial Geminates and Pertinacity’. Presented at the 7th Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, 1st–2nd December 2025. University of Edinburgh.
• Fritz, Isabella, Joshua Booth & Aditi Lahiri. 2025. ‘Redefining psycholinguistic cognates: Linguistic and historical considerations’. Presented at the 31st Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, 4th–6th September 2025. Charles University, Prague.
• Booth, Joshua, Felicia Stich, Isabella Fritz & Aditi Lahiri. 2025. ‘Through dick & dünn: Cognates and the legacy of diachronic change in synchronic processing’. Presented at the 31st Manchester Phonology Meeting, 29th–31st May 2025. University of Manchester.
• Fritz, Isabella & Joshua Booth & Aditi Lahiri. 2024. ‘Phonological constraints on the processing of cognates and loanwords in L2’. Presented at the 48th Österreichische Linguistiktagung, 17th–19th December 2024. University of Innsbruck.
• Booth, Joshua. 2024. ‘Pertinacity and systematicity: Insights into diachronic change from manuscripts’. Presented at the Pertinacious Phonology and Morphology Workshop, 23rd–25th September 2024. Ettington Park Hotel.
• Booth, Joshua. 2023. ‘Prosodic asymmetries between simple and special clitics in German’. Presented at the 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting, 25th–27th May 2023. University of Manchester.
• Booth, Joshua. 2022. ‘The Persistence of the Germanic Foot in Middle High German’. Presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 1st–5th August 2022. University of Oxford.
• Booth, Joshua. 2022. ‘Vowel quantity and syllable weight in German: A reanalysis’. Presented at the 29th Manchester Phonology Meeting, 25th–27th May 2022. University of Manchester.
• Booth, Joshua. 2021. ‘Metre in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival: a reanalysis’. Presented at the Virtual Colloquium in Germanic Linguistics for Postgraduate Research Students and Early Career Researchers, 12th-13th January 2021. University of Sheffield.

Conference Posters

• Booth, Joshua, Felicia Stich, Isabella Fritz & Aditi Lahiri. 2025. ‘Through dick & dünn: Cognates and the legacy of diachronic change in synchronic processing’. Presented at the 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference, 25th–27th June 2025. University of the Balearic Islands.
• Fritz, Isabella, Joshua Booth & Aditi Lahiri. 2024. ‘Pertinacious influence of native metrical parameters on affixed Romance loans in German and English: Diachronic and synchronic experimental evidence’. Presented at the 21st International Morphology Meeting, 28th–30th August 2024. Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.
• Booth, Joshua. 2022. ‘The prosodic representation of Verschmelzungsformen in Middle High German’. Presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 1st–5th August 2022. University of Oxford.

Theses

• Booth, Joshua. 2023. Prosody in the parchment: Manuscript evidence for the pertinacity of syllable, foot and word-prosodic structures in the mediaeval German grammar. Thesis (DPhil), University of Oxford, Oxford.
• Booth, Joshua. 2020. The metrical treatment of Romance loan words in Middle High German and its impact on the native word prosodic system. Thesis (MPhil), University of Oxford, Oxford. Request.