Phonetics is the area of linguistics that studies the production and perception of speech
sounds. Research in the past decades has clearly shown that speech is extremely variable …

In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang
dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives …

Code-switching—the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a
bilingual speaker—is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that …

In this article we define and illustrate sociophonetic variation within speech, highlighting
both its pervasiveness and also the relatively minor role it has played in the development of …

Given its abundance of dialects, varieties, styles, and registers, Arabic lends itself easily to
the study of language variation and change. It is spoken by some 300 million people in an …

The aim of this paper is to provide a sociophonetic perspective on debate relating to the role
of usage-based approaches in accounting for language variation. The bulk of the paper …

First language (L1) phonological categories strongly influence late learners' perception and
production of second language (L2) categories. For learners who start learning an L2 early …

It is known that adult language learners often struggle to accurately pronounce unfamiliar
sounds in the target language, but the extent and duration of the linguistic experience is …

This article has three main aims. First, I review what is known about encoding social-
indexical information in phonetics/phonology, suggesting that it is more complex and more …

In this chapter we examine the phonetic reflexes of code-switching in bilingual production.
We demonstrate that, in code-switching, bilinguals maintain distinct phonological categories …