This study analyzes the social evaluations of the Andalusian Spanish ceceo merger and its
split, distinción. A matched-guise experiment was created by digitally manipulating …

Although recent sociolinguistic research on high performance has shown that persona
construction is multidimensional and context‐specific, little work has explored how …

This dissertation examines how mobile speakers' language use and social perception of
language interact with their place-based identities. Specifically, I examine audience-based …

This chapter introduces the history and development of Chinese sociophonetics and its main
achievements. Chinese sociophonetics began as a combination of Chinese sociolinguistics …

Although scant, the previous research on Guatemalan Spanish has suggested that
both/f/lenition,/f/→[h], and/f/fortition,/f/→[p], are more common among Mayan-Spanish …

Research on style-shifting has shifted from more responsive models to one that prioritizes
speaker agency. However, recent work suggests that cognitive and sociocultural factors …

The scope and themes in Chinese sociolinguistics have grown considerably since the start
of the economic reforms in 1978 as the result of Mandarin Chinese being widely spoken …

Merger, the collapse of phonological distinction, is often believed to be unlikely to reverse
[1], but recent evidence shows that merger reversals are possible when speakers are …