This article explores the roles that language and the body play in the iconization of cross-
modal personae (see Agha 2003, 2004). Focusing on a community of radical drag queens in …

Addressing the dearth of variation research in nonurban, noncoastal regions of California,
this study examines the extent to which speakers in Redding, an inland community just north …

This paper explores the relation between the linguistic and the visual in indexing social
meaning and performing gender, focusing on fronted/s/among a community of drag queens …

In this study, we explore whether Zoom is a viable method for collecting data for
sociophonetic research, focusing on vocalic analysis. We investigate whether recordings …

This article reviews the role phonology plays in phonetic changes. After first establishing
what kinds of changes qualify as phonetic changes for the purposes of discussion, and …

This study explores customers' service evaluations based on the service provided by a hotel
frontline employee with different sexualities, manipulated as effeminate or masculine. Study …

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 …

Phonetic realization is highly variable and highly structured within and across talkers. We
examine three constraints that could structure the phonetic space of related speech sounds …

Intersectionality is a term that has gained much traction across disciplines—including
sociolinguistics—over the last decade. The term, originally proposed by Crenshaw (1999) …

Abstract English/ɹ/is known to exhibit covert variability, with tongue postures ranging from
bunched to retroflex, as well as various degrees of lip protrusion and compression. Because …