Recent years have seen numerous advances in natural language processing that can help
accelerate sociophonetic work. These include software to align speech recordings with their …

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 …

EXPOSITION A growing amount of research on North American English varieties shows that
many sociolinguistic variables peaked among the Baby Boomer Generation (born …

For nearly 400 years, New England has held an important place in the development of
American English, and" New England accents" are very well known in the popular …

In recent years there has been growing interest in the use of large linguistic datasets
collected online to study language variation and change. Research in this emerging …

Prevelar raising is the raising of trap and dress vowels before voiced velars. While bag and
beg raising have been described in Canada, the Upper Mid-west, and the Pacific Northwest …

The Low-Back-Merger Shift (LBMS) is a major North American vowel chain shift spreading
across many disparate dialect regions. In this field-based study, we examine the speech of …

This article examines the production and perception of/t/in five US states: Indiana,
Mississippi, New Mexico, Utah, and Vermont. For the production study, 94 participants read …

The goal of this chapter is to provide an overview of the new sources of data, new
methodologies, and new lines of research focusing on the study of morphosyntactic variation …

Although dialectologists have studied Eastern New England (ENE) for generations, the
dialect features of the Black/African American community are still understudied (Nagy and …