Empirically-observed word frequency effects in regular sound change present a puzzle: how
can high-frequency words change faster than low-frequency words in some cases, slower in …

This paper analyzes td-deletion, the process whereby coronal stops/t, d/are deleted after a
consonant at the end of the word (eg, best, kept, missed) in the speech of 93 speakers from …

Variation in speech has always been important to phonetic theory, but takes center stage in
the growing area of sociophonetics, which places the role of the social at the heart of the …

In this chapter, we survey areas where new work can deepen our understanding of the
history of North American English and other languages/varieties, with Montgomery's (2003) …

This dissertation focusses on the socalled “voicing effect”, by which vowels tend to be
shorter when followed by voiceless stops and to be longer when followed by voiced stops …

This study investigates the phonological behavior of secondarily post-velarized ('emphatic')
consonants in Colloquial Moroccan Arabic, focusing primarily on variant pronunciations of …

Abstract Language changes constantly, in ways that can be influenced by factors both
language-internal, such as word frequency, and language-external, such as social …

§ 1 This session surveys the life cycle of phonological processes, showing that, in their
diachronic evolution, sound patterns typically follow a unidirectional trajectory of change …

This research aimed to identify the linguistic features of famous and less-famous children
songs of Malay and English language. In addition, this research also focused on revealing …

Abstract Language change is driven by a constellation of acquisition and usage factors
operating at two ontological levels: the level of the individual and the level of the population …