Sociolinguistic study of variation and change has a long‐standing bias towards speech
communities in Western and especially Anglophone societies. We argue that our field …

What is involved in acquiring a new dialect-for example, when Canadian English speakers
move to Australia or African American English-speaking children go to school? How is such …

I review linguistic and interdisciplinary research on the non‐linguistic correlates of language
change, particularly as they apply to small populations, highly mobile groups, and hunter …

How flexible is an individual's accent during adulthood, and how does this flexibility relate to
longer-term change? Previous work has found that accents are remarkably flexible in …

Regardless of the variability and complexity in the linguistic environment around them,
children begin constructing stable linguistic identities at a young age. Prior research has …

Sui clan exogamy can serve as a laboratory for investigation of dialect contact and
immigration. The Sui people, an indigenous minority of southwest China, have marriage …

This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World
Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in …

This study investigates the acquisition of a local variant of the STRUT vowel in the speech of
Polish migrants living in Manchester, United Kingdom. While the local accent has no …

Documenting sociolinguistic variation in lesser-studied languages presents methodological
challenges, but also offers important research opportunities. In this paper we examine three …

Among the Sui people of rural southwestern China, descent-group loyalties are closely tied
to linguistic features. In every village, long-term dialect contact occurs between local …