In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register:
Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation”(CRC 1412), we assess the …

The theory of language change has worked primarily with four basic language change
profiles: generational change, age‐grading, communal change, and stability. This paper …

The results of the quantification of the acoustic differences between German/ç/and/ʃ/in three
speaker groups with varying contrast realizations are presented. Data for two speaker …

This study is concerned with whether an asymmetric phonetic overlap between speaker
groups contributes to the directional spread of sound change. An acoustic analysis of …

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 …

The Collaborative Research Center 1412 “Register: Language Users' Knowledge of
Situational-Functional Variation”(CRC 1412) investigates the role of register in language …

This study involves a perceptual categorization task for Australian English, designed to
investigate regional and social variation in category boundaries between close-front vowel …

Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its
varied influences across multiple generations, this volume provides true insight into how …

The chapter is concerned with how the mechanisms of human speech processing can
occasionally give rise to historical sound change. The starting point is the origin of sound …

Kiezdeutsch is a multiethnolectal variety of German spoken by young people from
multicultural communities that exhibits lexical, syntactic, and phonetic differences from …