An important topic in contemporary auditory science is supra-threshold hearing. Difficulty
hearing at conversational speech levels in background noise has long been recognized as …

The second edition of this distinguished textbook introduces undergraduates to the
concepts, terminology and representations needed for an understanding of how English is …

Whether some languages or dialects are spoken faster or slower than others constitutes a
gap in the understanding of sociolinguistic variation. Speech tempo is interconnected with …

This study characterizes the speech tempo (articulation rate, excluding pauses) of two
distinct varieties of American English taking into account both between-speaker and within …

This study aims to characterize the nature of the dynamic spectral change in vowels in three
distinct regional varieties of American English spoken in the Western North Carolina, in …

Variation across talkers in the acoustic-phonetic realization of speech sounds is a pervasive
property of spoken language. The present study provides evidence that variation across …

While cross-dialect prosodic variation has been well established for many languages, most
variationist research on regional dialects of American English has focused on the vowel …

Unequal outcomes in professional hiring for individuals from less privileged backgrounds
have been widely reported in England. Although accent is one of the most salient signals of …

The most important challenges humans face-identity, life, death, war, peace, the fate of our
planet-are manifested and debated through language. This book provides the intellectual …

This acoustic study examines sound (vowel) change in apparent time across three
successive generations of 123 adult female speakers ranging in age from 20 to 65 years old …