Peter Sundkvist Author

Gunnel Melchers is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Stockholm University. Her research has been devoted to regional and social variation, with special reference to the north of England and Scotland’s Northern Isles.

Philip Shaw is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Stockholm University. He has published within a wide range of areas of applied linguistics, particularly with a focus on academic and business English, and vocabulary learning among advanced students, and in World Englishes.

Peter Sundkvist is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Stockholm University. His research interests concern phonology, phonetics, and dialectology, relating to varieties of English and Germanic languages more generally. Most of his empirical work has focused on the Shetland Islands and such topics as Shetland Scots and Scottish Standard English.