Abstract African American Language (AAL) is one of the most researched varieties of
American English, yet key aspects of its development and spread remain under‐theorized …

An insightful exploration of the impact of urban change on Black culture, identity, and
language Across the United States, cities are changing. Gentrification is transforming urban …

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 …

The theme of this volume is generational trends in language change, with an emphasis on
the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition as an important period of time. Many studies have …

Purpose: This study examined narrative discourse in youth offenders, focusing on quality of
story retelling, story comprehension, critical thinking, and the use of complex syntax. Method …

That this volume—dedicated to identifying needed research in American dialects—contains
an entry on African American English is a testament to the considerable influence the study …

Change charting the course for deeper investigation of key regional American vowel chain
shifts taking both a linguistic and social perspective. But it seems safe to describe the last …

Shin and Mill (2021) propose four steps children go through when learning variable form
use. Although I applaud Shin and Miller's focus on morphosyntactic variation, their accrual of …

Africa's diversity is best illustrated linguistically. Thousands of endogenous and exogenous
languages are linked to and central to the identity and reality of Africans. Language is a vital …

Despite the importance of the pre-adult developmental period to sociolinguistic theory
(Labov 1972, Eckert 2000), children and teens remain understudied when it comes to …