Understanding the relationship between language change and variation has progressed
considerably over the last several decades, but less is known about how speakers at …

This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-
date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues …

This paper reviews theoretical and methodological advances and issues in lifespan
research and discusses how the issues at stake are addressed in an ongoing research …

This paper presents an analysis of the performance and usability of automatic speech
processing tools on six different varieties of English spoken in the British Isles. The tools …

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 …

The speech of older adults (65+ years old) is a rich resource for a wide range of researchers,
including oral historians, developmental psychologists, health communication scholars …

The relationship between the individual and the community is at the core of sociolinguistic
theorizing. To date, most longitudinal research has been conducted on the basis of trend …

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 …

This book makes the case for the value of a combined panel and trend study approach in
studying real-and apparent-time language change to reconcile conspicuous disparities …

Names: Beaman, Karen V., editor.| Buchstaller, Isabelle, editor. Title: Language variation
and language change across the lifespan: theoretical and empirical perspectives from panel …