African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the most studied dialects in American
English, has undergone several changes in its label across the years. Its most recent …

Abstract African American Language (AAL) is one of the most researched varieties of
American English, yet key aspects of its development and spread remain under‐theorized …

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 …

Regional variation in American English speech is often described in terms of shifts,
indicating which vowel sounds are converging or diverging. In the US South, the Southern …

Recent work has demonstrated an ongoing change across varieties of English in
which/s/retracts before consonants, particularly before/tɹ/clusters (eg, Lawrence, 2000; …

Regional differentiation is one of the primitive factors in dialect differences and a natural
starting point in the examination of language variation. 1 As is often the case for African …

While traditional variationist research has been critiqued for positioning ethnic and regional
variation in terms of separate “lects,” recent work has adopted a more nuanced view in …

Purpose Atypical duration of speech segments can signal a speech disorder. In this study,
we examined variation in vowel duration in African American English (AAE) relative to White …

This paper investigates the linguistic construction of ethnic and regional identities through
the use of a local feature, BAT retraction and lowering (D'Onofrio 2015, Kennedy and Grama …

Over the past few decades, sociolinguists have begun to take greater interest in how public
figures, such as politicians, may employ variation at different levels of linguistic structure in …