The study of sound change in progress in Philadelphia has been facilitated by the
application of forced alignment and automatic vowel measurement to a large corpus of …

This acoustic study examines sound (vowel) change in apparent time across three
successive generations of 123 adult female speakers ranging in age from 20 to 65 years old …

This study examines cross-generational changes in the vowel systems in central Ohio,
southeastern Wisconsin, and western North Carolina. Speech samples from 239 speakers …

The distribution of raised, nasalized variants of/æ/in such words as hat, bag, and back in the
speech of many Illinoisans cannot be explained by geographical or historical processes; …

This article investigates the Southern Vowel Shift—a possibly interrelated series of rotations
in vowel space currently affecting the dialects of southern speakers—in terms of examining …

In the last four decades, studies of language variation have brought a new perspective to the
problems of historical linguistics. Previously, diachronic studies had been largely confined …

The research in this dissertation focuses on the documentation and analysis of vowel
variation and sound change in Columbus, OH. Columbus is a Midland speech community …

Charleston has long been known for the distinctive character of its sound system, which sets
it apart from most other dialects of American English, including the rest of the South. The …

This chapter presents the basic framework for the analysis of North American English
dialects. It will introduce the criteria for the major regional divisions and define within these …

Studies on American dialects have questioned whether contemporary black and white
speech is increasingly converging or diverging and what this indicates about American …