Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume
examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life …

I have tried to capture these new developments in this new edition in two major ways. First,
the majority of the authors who contributed chapters to the first edition have revised and …

Following recent work that questions traditional social categories, this paper examines the
role of ethnicity in conditioning linguistic variation. Reporting on a large-scale project in the …

This dissertation advances research in sociolinguistics by analyzing phonetic variation in a
majority Asian American community in San Francisco, California. As one of the first …

Taking as a point of departure the preliminary view of regional phonetic differentiation in
Canadian English developed by the Atlas of North American English, this article presents …

3.5 Observed monophthongisation in Pittsburgh by age group 3.6 Expected
monophthongisation in Pittsburgh by age group 4.1 Class scores in Labov (1966) 4.2 Class …

This acoustic study examines sound (vowel) change in apparent time across three
successive generations of 123 adult female speakers ranging in age from 20 to 65 years old …

This study examines cross-generational changes in the vowel systems in central Ohio,
southeastern Wisconsin, and western North Carolina. Speech samples from 239 speakers …

Names: Ball, Martin J.(Martin John), editor.| Mesthrie, Rajend, editor.| Meluzzi, Chiara, editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of sociolinguistics around the world/edited by Martin J. Ball …

This paper examines the apparent time evolution of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift among
42 White speakers in one Chicago community. We analyse quantitative patterns of …