Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its
varied influences across multiple generations, this volume provides true insight into how …

TH-stopping, reported in the speech of working-class and immigrant groups across the US,
has long been considered a regional feature of New York City English (NYCE). Its origins in …

Based on qualitative interviews and focus groups with youth (12–24 years) living in rural,
coastal Newfoundland, Canada, we examine how leisure practices within this context …

Making use of three data sets of Newfoundland English, this paper uncovers the linguistic
and social motivations and strategies used by young speakers to reclaim and re‐shape a …

Investigating local linguistic norms to discover larger patterns of language behaviour has
been standard practice in sociolinguistic study. Looking closely at socially salient variables …

Newfoundland English has long been considered autonomous within the North American
context. Sociolinguistic studies conducted over the past three decades, however, typically …

The linguistic and social landscape of New York City is more diverse today than it has ever
been, with an estimated 800 languages being spoken, and the majority of the population …

This paper investigates patterning of/l/in Newfoundland English. Using acoustic and
ultrasound methods, the reported displacement of the traditional Irish pattern of word-final …

This dissertation is a case study of the English spoken in Nain, Nunatsiavut (Labrador), an
Inuit community in northern Canada. Conducted within a variationist sociolinguistic …

(LBMS), involving the lowering and/or backing of the bat, bet, and bit vowels, appears to be
the way of the future in North American varieties of English. 1 This volume (Becker 2019) …