Many people change aspects of their accent after moving to a new region. What kinds of
changes are made, and why does it matter? Studies of second dialect acquisition (SDA) …

This series is based on the idea that there is a need for studies that break barriers. It is
dedicated to innovative studies of language use and language learning in educational …

What is involved in acquiring a new dialect-for example, when Canadian English speakers
move to Australia or African American English-speaking children go to school? How is such …

Recent game-theoretic simulation and analytical models have demonstrated that
cooperative strategies mediated by indicators of cooperative potential, or “tags,” can invade …

Speech signals provide both linguistic information (eg, words and sentences) as well as
information about the speaker who produced the message (ie, social‐indexical information) …

This dissertation advances research in sociolinguistics by analyzing phonetic variation in a
majority Asian American community in San Francisco, California. As one of the first …

One of the persistent puzzles in understanding human speech perception is how listeners
cope with talker variability. One thing that might help listeners is structure in talker variability …

Abstract Language attitude studies have tended to assume that informants who listen to and
evaluate speech stimuli are able to identify with consistent accuracy the varieties of English …

Listeners can explicitly categorize unfamiliar talkers by regional dialect with above-chance
performance under ideal listening conditions. However, the extent to which this important …

This study provides a thorough acoustic analysis of the 18 Australian English monophthongs
and diphthongs produced in a variety of phonetic contexts by young adult speakers from …