Abstract The Classical Latin verb has featured prominently in theoretical morphology. In
particular, the notoriously unpredictable forms of the past participles that nevertheless show …

There is a long tradition in linguistics implicating child language acquisition as a major driver
of language change, the classic intuition being that innovations or" errors" which emerge …

Half a century ago, Uriel Weinreich, William Labov, and Marvin Herzog laid out a
programmatic vision for the study of language change. This included establishing five …

This thesis examines the flexibility and context-sensitivity of speech perception by looking at
a domain not often explored in the study of language cognition—popular music. Three …

Local orientation has been shown to influence speakers' participation in local dialect norms
and ongoing sound changes since the beginning of modern sociolinguistics (eg, Labov …

We investigate concrete acquisition theories for a derived approach to linking theory
development and explore to what extent two prominent linking theories in the syntactic …

Canadian Raising is a phonological process which raises the nucleus of both
the/aɪ/and/aʊ/diphthongs above 60Hz (Labov et al. 2005: ANAE, p. 205) before voiceless …

Analyzing data from the Puerto Rican English in Philadelphia (PREP) corpus, we investigate
participation in TH-stopping, a socially stigmatized yet stable variable documented in …

In the history of English, vowels in stressed syllables showed a length alternation. For
example, the singular noun whal 'whale'had a short vowel that was lengthened in the plural …

This article focuses on change in the “short-a system” of New York City English (NYCE).
Recent results suggest that a complex set of tensing rules traditionally described for NYCE …