Over the past 50 years, variationist sociolinguists have taken the influential ideas and
pioneering methods of Labov () to many locations around the world. But the majority of …

How flexible is an individual's accent during adulthood, and how does this flexibility relate to
longer-term change? Previous work has found that accents are remarkably flexible in …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art
of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established …

Regardless of the variability and complexity in the linguistic environment around them,
children begin constructing stable linguistic identities at a young age. Prior research has …

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 …

This paper addresses the questions, Do bilingually induced and shift-induced change have
different outcomes? If they do, can these differences assist us in reconstructing the …

This thesis examines language variation and change in a context of minority language
revitalisation. In particular, I concentrate on young fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic, a …

Summary Fundamental frequency (F0, broadly 'pitch') is an integral part of spoken human
language; however, a comprehensive quantitative model for F0 can be a challenge to …

Despite the difficulty of delineating the rural from the urban according to economic or
demographic criteria, this distinction has powerful cultural resonances, and language plays …

Typically, a study of variation starts from the known and works its way into the unknown. But
what happens when you are analyzing variation at the same time as you are grappling with …