Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume
examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life …

Following recent work that questions traditional social categories, this paper examines the
role of ethnicity in conditioning linguistic variation. Reporting on a large-scale project in the …

This paper investigates the role of experience, understood as length of residence in an L2-
speaking country, in non-native vowel categorization. More specifically, the study assesses …

Based on an impressionistic study of 16 young Canadians, mostly from Ontario, Clarke,
Elms, and Youssef (1995) reported that the short front vowels of Canadian English are …

This paper examines several aspects of the “Short Front Vowel Shift”(SFVS) in Canadian
English, known in most previous research as the “Canadian Vowel Shift.” It is based on …

The research in this dissertation focuses on the documentation and analysis of vowel
variation and sound change in Columbus, OH. Columbus is a Midland speech community …

This article examines the status of the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) as a change in progress in
Chicago, the largest city within the Inland North. The progression of the NCS in Chicago and …

In this study, I present acoustic data on vowel formant dynamics from 54 natives of Cowlitz
County, Washington, a region where English has not been analyzed sociolinguistically. The …

The Canadian Vowel Shift (CVS) has been the focus of a number of recent impressionistic
and acoustic studies. This study provides further information about the social profile of the …

This paper provides a unified phonologically motivated explanation for the movement of
trap, dress, and kit following the low-back merger in North American English (ie, the …