Many phonological processes can be affected by segmental context spanning word boundaries, which often lead to variable outcomes. This paper tests the idea that some of …
Recordings of speech play a central role in the diverse subdisciplines of linguistics. The reliance on speech recordings is especially profound in sociolinguistics, where scholars …
Extremely isolated communities offer'laboratory conditions' for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. This book presents findings of the first-ever …
C Lucas, R Bayley, M Rose, A Wulf - Sign Language Studies, 2002 - JSTOR
This article, part of a larger project that studied sociolinguistic variation in American Sign Language, examines that variation in a class of American Sign Language signs exemplified …
The investigation of isolated African American enclave communities has been instrumental in reformulating the historical reconstruction of earlier African American English and the …
K Hazen - Language Variation and Change, 2011 - cambridge.org
In this paper I examine how a classic feature of variationist research, coronal stop deletion (CSD), operates at the end of the 20th century in one of the most renowned vernacular …
C Vaughn - Language Variation and Change, 2022 - cambridge.org
In natural conversation, multiple factors likely impact the social force of a sociolinguistic variant, yet researchers have tended to examine individual factors in isolation. This paper …
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 …