Formants in speech signals are easily identified, largely because formants are defined to be
local maxima in the wideband sound spectrum. Sadly, this is not what is of most interest in …

In this paper, we present a novel computational approach to the analysis of accent variation.
The case study is dialect leveling in the North of England, manifested as reduction of accent …

We examine the loss of the Northern Cities Shift raising of trap in Ogdensburg, a small city in
rural northern New York. Although data from 2008 showed robust trap-raising among young …

This article reviews the status of the trap-bath split in the counties of Leicestershire,
Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. The East Midlands forms …

The study of vowel variation has featured prominently in advancing sociophonetic theory
and methods, driving technological innovation and motivating the formulation of novel …

This paper presents a study of sociophonetic variation in the lateral approximant/l/in
Manchester, UK. We know little about how English laterals pattern sociolinguistically …

This article investigates the status of the foot–strut split in the counties of Leicestershire,
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. The East Midlands area is …

This paper investigates the question of whether, as is often popularly believed, there may be
systematic linguistic differences between different neighborhoods within a city by testing the …

This paper presents the results of a survey of phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic
variation in British English, based on over 14,000 responses. We map twelve variables …

This is an introductory textbook on the history of the English language. At the same time, it is
also an introductory textbook on historical linguistics in English. The book has as its starting …