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 …

In recent decades, computational approaches to sociophonetic vowel analysis have been
steadily increasing, and sociolinguists now frequently use semi-automated systems for …

An in-depth exploration of the sound systems of varieties of English around the world, written
by a renowned authority in the field In Sounds of English Worldwide, Raymond Hickey …

The current chapter presents an analysis across varied sites in the Western United States,
namely California, Nevada, and Oregon, to probe further the uniformity of the Low-Back …

6. STRUCTURAL AND SOCIAL CORRELATIONS WITH THE LOW-BACK-MERGER SHIFT IN A
US MIDLAND COMMUNITY Page 1 6. STRUCTURAL AND SOCIAL CORRELATIONS WITH …

This paper considers whether vowel systems are organized not only around principles of
auditory-acoustic dispersion, but also around non-auditory perceptual factors, specifically …

Among the us states, Alaska is a geographic and demographic anomaly: it is easily the
largest of the states but has the lowest population density by far; it shares a land border with …

This paper analyzes word list recordings from 37 Pacific Islander (PI) and 40 European
American (EA) teens from two Salt Lake County (SLCo) high schools to address three …

This dissertation presents a sociophonetic analysis of vowel phonemes descended from
Middle English/ɔ:/and/ɔu/(MOAN-MOWN) in Lowestoft English, the East Anglian variety …

Speech is highly variable and systematic, governed by the internal linguistic system and
socio-indexical factors. The systematic relationship of socio-indexical factors and variable …