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 provides a unified phonologically motivated explanation for the movement of
trap, dress, and kit following the low-back merger in North American English (ie, the …

This chapter explores how sociophonetic study informs and enhances our understanding of
dialectal variation. While sociophonetics emerged from within traditional dialectology to …

US American English (AmE) influence has been identified as a potential force in variation
and change in postcolonial Englishes. Adolescents are typically not examined in this context …

The social meaning of phonetic variation is central to sociophonetics. Despite the co-
occurrence of multiple potentially meaningful variables in speech, previous experimental …

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 …

Representativeness in regional dialectology is critical to avoid essentialization when
describing regional and ethnic language variation. Yet, regional vowel studies still tend to …

The fricated allophone of coda/t/is a variant in which full occlusion of the alveolar stop is not
achieved, resulting in the consonant instead being produced via frication. Fricated/t/is …

In this paper, we report on what we are calling “Missionary Voice,” or a particular way of
speaking characteristic to missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints …

Sociolinguistics seeks to describe language use as a social phenomenon. As such it studies
both, correlations between language use and social structure as well as the social meaning …