Humans are remarkably efficient at parsing basic linguistic cues and show an equally
impressive ability to produce and parse socially indexed cues from the language (s) they …

While studies of sociolinguistic variation traditionally have focused on correlations between
macro‐social categories and the use of linguistic variants, sociolinguistic work examining …

Social meaning-based approaches to linguistic variation treat variation as a semiotic system,
in which sociolinguistic signs—indexical links between linguistic forms and social meanings …

In the first decades of the 21st century, exemplar theory has fueled an explosion of
theoretical and empirical work in speech production. We review the foundations for this …

Some sociolinguistic variables are prone to hypercorrection, stigmatization and style shifting,
while other variables are not. The status of the former type—sometimes called stereotypes …

This paper explores the relation between the linguistic and the visual in indexing social
meaning and performing gender, focusing on fronted/s/among a community of drag queens …

The influence of social knowledge on speech perception is a question of interest to a range
of disciplines of language research. This study combines experimental and qualitative …

The influence of usage frequency, and particularly of linguistic similarity on human linguistic
behavior and linguistic change in situations of language contact are well documented in …

Why can'ta Quechua speaker wear pants? Anna M. Babel uses this question to open an
analysis of language and social structure at the border of eastern and western, highland and …

This article explores the relationship between salience, stereotypes, and cooccurring
language variables in the social perception of language. Following previous work, we argue …