This paper examines the factors conditioning the production of linguistic variables in real
time by individual speakers: what we term the dynamics of variation in individuals. We …

In the analysis of free variation in phonology, we often encounter the effects of
INTERSECTING CONSTRAINT FAMILIES: there are two independent families of constraints …

Persistence, the tendency to repeat a recently used variant in speech, has been observed
for a range of sociolinguistic variables. This paper uses quantitative data from ING and TD in …

This paper analyzes td-deletion, the process whereby coronal stops/t, d/are deleted after a
consonant at the end of the word (eg, best, kept, missed) in the speech of 93 speakers from …

Abstract English/ɹ/is known to exhibit covert variability, with tongue postures ranging from
bunched to retroflex, as well as various degrees of lip protrusion and compression. Because …

We describe three vowel-harmony processes in Tommo So and their interaction with
morphological structure. The verbal suffixes of Tommo So occur in a strict linear order …

This dissertation, which is situated in broad debates over the delineation of abstract
grammatical knowledge from the use of language in context, argues for distinct but …

Traditional theories of phonological variation propose that morphemes be encoded with
descriptors such as [+/–Rule X], to capture which of them participate in a variable process …

The traditional focus of variationist sociolinguistic research is the patterning of language
variation at the level of the community, which individual language users are said to learn …

English auxiliary contraction has received much attention in the linguistic literature, but our
knowledge of this variable has remained limited due to the absence of a thorough corpus …