This study examines the phonetic and phonological knowledge of Spanish and English/l/by
early and late Spanish-English bilinguals along a continuum of language dominance. Forty …

This study examines age of acquisition (AoA) in Spanish-English bilinguals' phonetic and
phonological knowledge of/l/in English and Spanish. In English, the lateral …

Sociophonetics, the interface between sociolinguistics and phonetics, has grown rapidly in
visibility and influence over the past decade. It operates by conducting studies of human …

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 …

Although consonantal variation has traditionally been studied using auditory coding,
techniques now exist for measuring any kind of consonants acoustically and/or articulatorily …

This investigation examines the variable production of alveolar laterals in Barcelonan
Spanish as a case study evidencing the effects of language contact between a majority …

The research objectives of this dissertation are:(1) to empirically investigate the origin
behind two (contact) features of Catalonian Spanish,[ł] and [z], inquiring the role of specific …

This investigation constitutes a quantitative variationist approach toward Spanish in contact
with Catalan in Barcelona, Spain. It seeks to empirically measure concrete usage patterns of …

Sociophonetics has grown rapidly in recent years, although to some extent the field lacks a
consolidated aim. Sociolinguists use its name for any language variation project that …

This paper presents a study of sociophonetic variation in the lateral approximant/l/in
Manchester, UK. We know little about how English laterals pattern sociolinguistically …