The close relationship between language variation and the nature of social ties among
people has been the focus of long-standing commentary in linguistics. A central puzzle in …

Variation in the pronunciation of spoken words constitutes one of the primary challenges to
theories of Spoken Word Recognition (SWR). In this paper we examine the processing and …

Aims and objectives: This study investigates the effects of individual bilingualism and long-
term language contact on monophthongal vowel productions in English and Welsh. Design …

The role of social networks in language variation has been studied using a wide range of
metrics. This study critically examines the effect of different dimensions of networks on …

This article examines the perception of the quotatives be like and say among German
learners of English. We compare their evaluations with findings made for native-speakers of …

Names: Beaman, Karen V., editor.| Buchstaller, Isabelle, editor. Title: Language variation
and language change across the lifespan: theoretical and empirical perspectives from panel …

This inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with
the 'super-diversifying'of language and society engendered by recent and historical …

This article is concerned with the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation, which is central to
native speaker competence. It explores the acquisition of variable quotative marking within …

Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its
varied influences across multiple generations, this volume provides true insight into how …

This paper investigates the degree to which individual speakers follow the morphosyntactic
hierarchy governing grammatical constraints on (ING) in the Southern US city of Raleigh …