features relative to prior work in previous generations and (2) test the effectiveness of large-
scale audio crowdsourcing by using Amazon Mechanical Turk to collect sociophonetic data.
Using recordings from 626 speakers across the region, this is the largest acoustic
sociophonetic study ever conducted in New England. Although face-to-face fieldwork will
always be crucial in sociolinguistics and dialectology, we believe that online audio-recorded …