The study of sound change in progress in Philadelphia has been facilitated by the
application of forced alignment and automatic vowel measurement to a large corpus of …

This article argues that an enhanced understanding of the dynamics of language change
can be gained by uniting two perspectives whose intimate relationship has not previously …

This is an acoustic and articulatory study of Canadian French rhotic vowels, ie, mid front
rounded vowels/ø œ̃ œ/produced with a rhotic perceptual quality, much like English [ɚ] or …

How flexible is an individual's accent during adulthood, and how does this flexibility relate to
longer-term change? Previous work has found that accents are remarkably flexible in …

This paper is equal parts methodological recommendation and an empirical investigation of
the time dimensions of linguistic change. It is increasingly common in the sociolinguistic …

Interest in longitudinal sociolinguistic research has grown considerably over the past
decade. This chapter notes that the major reason for this surge of interest is that longitudinal …

Before the age of corpora was also before the age of cellular telephones, laptops,
digitization of sound files and human subject regulations. In 1969, sociolinguistics was in its …

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

Apparent time analysis has revealed that the Tyneside face vowel is the site of two
intersecting trends: levelling towards the supra‐northern monophthong as well as the …

This chapter considers how longitudinal changes of a sociophonetic nature can be
distinguished acoustically from changes due to biological aging of the vocal tract. The …