| Understanding language change AMS McMahon Cambridge University Press, 1994 | 1796 | 1994 |
| An introduction to English phonology A McMahon Edinburgh University Press, 2002 | 593 | 2002 |
| Language classification by numbers A McMahon, R McMahon Oxford University Press on Demand, 2005 | 410 | 2005 |
| The handbook of English linguistics B Aarts, A McMahon Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006 | 281 | 2006 |
| Lexical phonology and the history of English A McMahon Cambridge University Press, 2000 | 216 | 2000 |
| Change, chance, and optimality A McMahon OUP Oxford, 2000 | 193 | 2000 |
| Time depth in historical linguistics C Renfrew, A McMahon, RL Trask The Macdonald Institute for Archaelogical Research, 2000 | 183 | 2000 |
| Evolutionary linguistics A McMahon, R McMahon Cambridge University Press, 2012 | 142 | 2012 |
| Splits or waves? Trees or webs? How divergence measures and network analysis can unravel language histories P Heggarty, W Maguire, A McMahon Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365 …, 2010 | 141 | 2010 |
| Finding families: quantitative methods in language classification A McMahon, R McMahon Transactions of the Philological Society 101 (1), 7-55, 2003 | 134 | 2003 |
| 17 English Phonology and Morphology R Bermúdez-Otero, A McMahon The handbook of English linguistics 36, 382, 2006 | 111 | 2006 |
| Gestural representation and lexical phonology A McMahon, P Foulkes, L Tollfree Phonology 11 (2), 277-316, 1994 | 99 | 1994 |
| The sound patterns of Englishes: representing phonetic similarity A McMahon, P Heggarty, R McMahon, W Maguire English Language & Linguistics 11 (1), 113-142, 2007 | 87 | 2007 |
| Swadesh sublists and the benefits of borrowing: an Andean case study A McMahon, P Heggarty, R McMahon, N Slaska Transactions of the Philological Society 103 (2), 147-170, 2005 | 82 | 2005 |
| Lexical phonology and sound change: the case of the Scottish vowel length rule1 AMS McMahon Journal of Linguistics 27 (1), 29-53, 1991 | 80 | 1991 |
| Linguistic areas: convergence in historical and typological perspective A McMahon Springer, 2006 | 72 | 2006 |
| Linguistics, genetics and archaeology: internal and external evidence in the Amerind controversy A McMahon, R McMahon Transactions of the Philological Society 93 (2), 125-225, 1995 | 60 | 1995 |
| The past, present, and future of English dialects: Quantifying convergence, divergence, and dynamic equilibrium W Maguire, A McMahon, P Heggarty, D Dediu Language Variation and Change 22 (1), 69-104, 2010 | 51 | 2010 |
| Why linguists don’t do dates: evidence from Indo-European and Australian languages A McMahon, R McMahon Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages, 153-160, 2006 | 49 | 2006 |
| Analysing variation in English W Maguire, A McMahon Cambridge University Press, 2011 | 43 | 2011 |
