Linguistic variation has consistently been found to have social meaning in its association
with the status and stance of speakers in the context of interaction. This indexical function of …

This paper presents a methodology for exploring systematic co‐variation of vowels using
Principal Component Analysis (PCA). As a case study, we examine and build on Brand et …

Variation across talkers in the acoustic-phonetic realization of speech sounds is a pervasive
property of spoken language. The present study provides evidence that variation across …

Understanding the range and limits of crosslinguistic variation stands at the core of linguistic
typology and basic science. Linguistic typology is concerned with the relevant dimensions …

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

The study of phonetic variation and change has tended to concentrate on particular
variables in isolation, and it has proven challenging to move beyond an analysis of …

The present study investigates patterns of covariation among acoustic properties of stop
consonants in a large multi-talker corpus of American English connected speech. Relations …

The paper asks whether six ongoing vowel changes in Philadelphia English show
interspeaker covariation. In a sample of 66 young white women, pairwise correlations are …

This paper is equal parts methodological recommendation and an empirical investigation of
the time dimensions of linguistic change. It is increasingly common in the sociolinguistic …

This paper tests whether Yang's Tolerance Principle (TP) is useful in explaining one type of
morphological change in the history of English. We suggest that some, but not all, innovative …