This paper examines the factors conditioning the production of linguistic variables in real
time by individual speakers: what we term the dynamics of variation in individuals. We …

In my dissertation I examined the interaction of the phonological grammar and lexicon
through the lens of Lexical Conservatism (Steriade, 1997). Lexical Conservatism is a theory …

Variable deletion of word-final coronal stops in English is strongly conditioned by whether
the following segment is a consonant or a vowel. This paper uses corpus data to show that …

Predictability has been shown to be associated with many dimensions of variation in
speech, including durational variation and variable omission of segments. However, the …

This paper has three goals:(1) to document the factors shaping is-contraction in Mainstream
American English;(2) to assess the extent to which these factors also shape contraction of …

This thesis probes the role of grammatical structure and cognitive processing in
phonological variation using a corpus-based approach. Study 1 investigates variable …

Songs is one of the most popular creations of human language, but linguistic study of this
medium is still limited. One popular trend is to study the slangs in songs, but previous …

In the English process of palatalization, when the alveolar obstruents/t, d, s, z/occur before
the palatal glide/j/, they can become the palatoalveolar affricates and fricatives,/tS, dZ, S, Z …

This dissertation examines whether and how psycholinguistic priming, and social
knowledge are integrated in the identification of sociolinguistic variants. Using the English …

As pointed out by Coetzee (2009), the study of what is still often called 'free variation'(but not
by those who study it) has followed a largely parallel history to the development of …