This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-
date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues …

Sociophonetics focuses on the relationship between phonetic or phonological form on the
one hand, and social and regional factors on the other, working across fields as diverse as …

This study explores variability in particle placement across nine varieties of English around
the globe, utilizing data from the International Corpus of English and the Global Corpus of …

Variation in speech has always been important to phonetic theory, but takes center stage in
the growing area of sociophonetics, which places the role of the social at the heart of the …

Varieties of language are seen–by linguists and non-specialists alike–as constituting sets of
linguistic characteristics, items, and structures. This is true of languages, dialects, ethnolects …

This paper uses a small-scale case study of the speech of a single speaker at two points in
time to investigate the question of whether and how speakers' mental representations …

In this paper, I argue that filled pause selection (um/uh) is a sociolinguistic variable,
conditioned by both internal and external factors. There appears to be a language change in …

Inspired by work in comparative sociolinguistics and quantitative dialectometry, we sketch a
corpus-based method (Variation-Based Distance & Similarity Modeling—VADIS for short) to …

What is the relationship between phonetics and phonology? Are phonological features
innate and universal, and do they have fixed phonetic correlates? These questions have …

The existence of a shared constraint hierarchy is one of the criteria that defines and delimits
speech communities. In particular, women and men are thought to differ only in their rates of …