While the field of variationist sociolinguistics has advanced rapidly since Labov (1966), it
remains the case that a socially informed theory of language change continues to be …

Language fundamentally defines and distinguishes us as humans, as members of society,
and as individuals. As we go through life, our relationship with language and with learning …

This study examines cross-generational transmission of a sociophonetic variable in a
heritage language context. Voiceless stop aspiration is a sociophonetic variable in …

This study asks whether first and second language speakers would converge equally across
dialect boundaries. To investigate this we ran a shadowing task in which first (American and …

The present article examines the importance of language attitudes and ideologies for
studying motivation to learn minority languages by adults. In the contemporary globalised …

This study examines the variable use and the social meaning of a contact‐induced
phenomenon in Basque, Differential Object Marking, to explain the emergence of new …

Aims: The goal of this special issue is to anchor an understanding of language variation and
change in a relatively newly adopted framework for researching 'new speakers' of …

Contrary to Labov's principle of style shifting, studies in language obsolescence portray
speakers of dying languages as 'monostylistic', a characterization questioned here …

Scholars have consistently theorised that language ideologies can influence the ways in
which bilingual speakers in minority language settings identify and engage with the …

In the current study, we respond to calls for reform in second language acquisition that
center on the field's preoccupation with native-speaker and prescriptive targets as a …