This article examines the co‐occurring realization of two sociophonetic variables within a
style—the LOT vowel in English and word‐initial/l/—to explore the link between articulatory …

This article is Part I of a general overview of current methods in articulatory phonetics
research. This part deals with methods used to investigate oral gestures—speech‐related …

'Vocalization'is a label commonly used to describe an ongoing change in progress affecting
coda/l/in multiple accents of English. The label is directly linked to the loss of consonantal …

This paper presents a study of sociophonetic variation in the lateral approximant/l/in
Manchester, UK. We know little about how English laterals pattern sociolinguistically …

In many English varieties,/l/is produced differently in onsets and codas. Compared with
“light” syllable-initial realizations,“dark” syllable-final variants involve reduced tongue tip …

It is uncontroversial that, in many varieties of English, the realization of/l/varies depending on
whether/l/occurs word-initially or word-finally. The nature of this effect, however, remains …

This paper is concerned with the velarized lateral [ɫ] as a possible realization of the lateral
phoneme/l/in the rural Central Bavarian base dialects of German in Austria. So far, velarized …

For aging speech, there is a limited knowledge regarding the articulatory adjustments
underlying the acoustic findings observed in previous studies. In this context, ultrasound …

For aging speech, there is limited knowledge regarding the articulatory adjustments
underlying the acoustic findings observed in previous studies. In order to investigate the age …

This chapter provides an overview into sociolinguistic variation in laterals, summarizing the
wide-ranging research on the English-speaking world, as well as an overview of other …