Most sociolinguistic studies rely on apparent time, cross-sectional methods to analyze
language change. On the basis of apparent time data, sociolinguists have hypothesized that …

This dissertation presents an acoustic phonetic examination of the vowel systems of 32
Hawai'i Creole speakers with special attention paid to how these vowel realizations have …

African-American students continue to lag behind White peers in nationwide test scores, in
part due to deficits in literacy skills which may be connected to use of African American …

Sociolinguists have long noted that variability is inherent in human speech; people do not
talk the same way all the time in all contexts, but instead adjust their speech to, for example …