Research on ethnic varieties of American English has found that listeners can identify
speaker ethnicity from voice alone at above-chance rates. This study aims to extend this …

Riding upon the Hallyu wave, K-pop, or Korean popular music, has gained a large following
in North America in the past decade. Online communities centered around the consumption …

Within sociolinguistic research on English variation, Asian and Pacific Islander North
Americans (APINAs) are frequently described as an “understudied population” due to the …

Heritage languages are defined as a product of language contact. In this scenario, patterns
of variability are often attributed to contact with the majority language. However, variability …

These studies fill in a gap in our understanding of how to situate bilingual and bicultural
ethnic minorities in the United States within ongoing issues in the literature on sound …

Recent sociophonetic research has focused on the ways in which race and ethnicity
influence language as well as how language is used to construct racial and ethnic identity …

This paper examines how young Korean Americans conceive of the relationship between
their ethnic identity and linguistic behavior, focusing on metalinguistic commentary given on …

Social information is cognitively linked to linguistic information, evidenced by bidirectional
influences on perceptual processing of speech. Models of sociophonetic cognition theorize …

This study examines a case of an identical sound shift,/u/-fronting, in both the majority
(Multicultural Toronto English, Denis et al. 2013) and heritage (Seoul Korean, Kang 2016) …