Publications

Sheard, Elena, Jen Hay, Joshua Wilson Black, and Lynn Clark. 2025. “Do ‘Leaders’ in Change Sound Different from ‘Laggers’? The Perceptual Similarity of New Zealand English Voices.” PLOS ONE 20 (12). Public Library of Science: e0338199. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0338199.

Hurring, Gia, Joshua Wilson Black, Jen Hay, and Lynn Clark. 2025. “How Stable Are Patterns of Covariation Across Time?” Language Variation and Change, May, 1–25. doi:10.1017/S0954394525000043.

Flego, Stefon M., Lynn Clark, Jen Hay, Gia Hurring, Elena Sheard, Abby Walker, and Joshua Wilson Black. 2025. “Changing Trajectories of New Zealand English Vowels.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 157 (April): A125. doi:10.1121/10.0037628.

Wilson Black, Joshua. 2025. “Peirce on Inference: Validity, Strength, and the Community of Inquirers by Richard Kenneth Atkins (Review).” Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (4). Johns Hopkins University Press: 659–60. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/971110.

Wilson Black, Joshua, and James Brand. 2024. “nzilbb.vowels: Vowel Covariation Tools.” https://nzilbb.github.io/nzilbb_vowels/.

Maclagan, Margaret, Toby Macrae, and Joshua Wilson Black. 2024. “The Pronunciation of the Word ‘Māori’.” Te Reo: The Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 66 (2): 132–50. https://nzlingsoc.org/journal_article/the-pronunciation-of-the-word-maori/.

Wilson Black, Joshua, Jennifer Hay, Lynn Clark, and James Brand. 2023. “The Overlooked Effect of Amplitude on Within-Speaker Vowel Variation.” Linguistics Vanguard 9 (1). Walter de Gruyter GmbH: 173–89. doi:10.1515/lingvan-2022-0086.

Fromont, Robert, Lynn Clark, Joshua Wilson Black, and Margaret Blackwood. 2023. “Maximizing Accuracy of Forced Alignment for Spontaneous Child Speech.” Language Development Research 3 (1). doi:10.34842/shrr-sv10.

Wilson Black, Joshua. 2023. “Peirce on Metaphysics and Common Sense Belief: A Challenge to Hookway’s Account.” In Pragmatic Reason: Christopher Hookway and the American Philosophical Tradition, edited by Robert Talisse, Paniel Reyes Cárdenas, and Daniel Herbert. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003165699.

———. 2022. “Creating Specialized Corpora from Digitized Historical Newspaper Archives.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 38 (2). Oxford University Press (OUP): 779–97. doi:10.1093/llc/fqac079.

Wilson Black, Joshua, James Brand, Jen Hay, and Lynn Clark. 2022. “Using Principal Component Analysis to Explore Co‐variation of Vowels.” Language and Linguistics Compass 17 (1). Wiley. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12479.

Legg, Catherine, and Joshua Black. 2022. “What Is Intelligence For? A Peircean Pragmatist Response to the Knowing-How, Knowing-That Debate.” Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy 87 (5). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands: 2265–84. doi:10.1007/s10670-020-00301-9.

Black, Joshua David. 2017. “Peirce’s Conception of Metaphysics.” University of Sheffield. https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18188/.

Black, Joshua. 2016. “Peirce.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (6). Routledge: 1223–27. doi:10.1080/09608788.2016.1149448.

Black, Joshua David. 2013. “Peirce on Habit, Practice, and Theory: The Priority of Practice and the Autonomy of Theory.” https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/7847.