Phonological representations capture information about individual word forms and about the
general characteristics of word forms in a language. To support the processing of novel word …

Background/aim It is widely believed that 'creaky voice'('creak','vocal fry','glottal fry') is
increasingly prevalent among some English speakers, particularly among young American …

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive,
intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of …

Sociophonetics–the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics–is a field that has expanded
rapidly in recent years. A subject that requires both methodological and theoretical …

Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels:
languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; …

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 …

In New Zealand English there is a merger-in-progress of the near and square diphthongs.
This paper investigates the consequences of this merger for speech perception. We report …

The Handbook is a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics,
approaches and methodologies in forensic linguistics and language and the law. It …

Previous research has shown that speech perception can be influenced by a speaker's
social characteristics, including the expected dialect area of the speaker (Niedzielski …

'Uptalk'is commonly used to refer to rising intonation at the end of declarative sentences, or
(to put it more simply) the tendency for people to make statements that sound like questions …