Phonetics is the area of linguistics that studies the production and perception of speech
sounds. Research in the past decades has clearly shown that speech is extremely variable …

Title description New Zealand English is currently one of the most researched varieties of
English world-wide. This book presents an up-to-date account of all the major aspects of …

The focus of this article is the supposed “Gender Paradox,” proposed by Labov (1990,
2001), which suggests that women are both sometimes conservative and sometimes …

A glance at a social dialectological article in a leading linguistics journal will invariably
provide evidence of large corpora of data having been systematically trawled for thousands …

The focus of this article is the supposed 'Gender Paradox', proposed by Labov (1990, 2001),
that women are both sometimes conservative and sometimes innovative in terms of linguistic …

The two most conspicuous features of New Zealand English (NZE) observed in relation to
other international varieties of the language are its phonology and its lexis. An element of …

This paper discusses data collected in Metsovo from young people belonging to three age
groups, ranging from 5 to 19: pre-school children, primary school children and adolescents …