Abstract African American Language (AAL) is one of the most researched varieties of
American English, yet key aspects of its development and spread remain under‐theorized …

Southern varieties of English are known to be affected by the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS),
which alters the positional relationship between the front tense/lax system. However …

Regional variation in American English speech is often described in terms of shifts,
indicating which vowel sounds are converging or diverging. In the US South, the Southern …

The Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States is an extensive audio corpus of sociolinguistic
interviews with 1121 speakers from eight southeastern US states. Complete interviews have …

Purpose This research explored mechanisms of vowel variation in African American English
by comparing 2 geographically distant groups of African American and White American …

Previous research has shown that coarticulatory information in the signal orients listeners in
spoken word recognition, and that articulatory and perceptual dynamics closely parallel one …

2. Methods The data used for this study come from the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese-
Core (CSJ)(Koiso, 2014; Maekawa, 2000), containing∼ 45 h of speech (recorded 1999 …

We offer an initial acoustic description of several features of Southern American English in
the Digital Archive of Southern Speech (DASS)(Kretzschmar et al., 2012), a large data set …

Vowels are typically characterized in terms of their static position in formant space, though
vowels have also been long-known to undergo dynamic formant change over their …

We examined whether the fundamental frequency (f0) of vowels is influenced by regional
variation, aiming to (1) establish how the relationship between vowel height and f0 (“intrinsic …