The structural focus of linguistics has led to a static and modular treatment of meaning.
Viewing language as practice allows us to transcend the boundaries of subdisciplines that …

The study of sound change in progress in Philadelphia has been facilitated by the
application of forced alignment and automatic vowel measurement to a large corpus of …

While sociolinguists defined the regional sound changes around the linguistic behavior of
White speakers, recent work has shown that racialized speakers employ local sound …

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 dissertation addresses the broad question about how phonology and phonetics are
interrelated, specifically how phonetic language changes, which gradually alter the …

" Drawing on data from well-known actors in popular films and TV shows, this reference
guide surveys the representation of accent in North American film and TV over eight …

This study, conducted among 169 participants in June 2009, is a methodological replica of
Labov's original study of the social stratification of/r/in three New York City department …

This is a study of the competition of linguistic systems within the speech community, tracing
the opposition of distinct phonological configurations. Among younger Philadelphians …

In paired dialect identification tasks, differing only by speakers' sex, New Yorkers were
asked to identify the race and national heritage of other New Yorkers. Each task included …

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 …