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

This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-
date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues …

Монография раскрывает сущность социофонетики как методологии изучения
фонетико-фонологических характеристик звучащей речи в социальном контексте …

This chapter reviews the work in sociolinguistics devoted to understanding what happens to
languages in intimate contact, that is, spoken by bilinguals. This review concentrates on …

IMPACT publishes monographs, collective volumes, and text books on topics in
sociolinguistics. The scope of the series is broad, with special emphasis on areas such as …

This paper examines several aspects of the “Short Front Vowel Shift”(SFVS) in Canadian
English, known in most previous research as the “Canadian Vowel Shift.” It is based on …

During a merger-in-progress, occasionally one or two speakers will exhibit an unusual
phonological pattern reminiscent of flip-flop (Labov et al. 1972). In such cases, the merging …

Infant‐directed speech (IDS) is phonetically distinct from adult‐directed speech (ADS): It is
typically considered to have special prosody—like higher pitch and slower speaking rates …

The literature on Canadian English provides evidence of distinct dialect regions. Within this
landscape, the province of British Columbia is set apart as a sub-region in the west, yet …

Phonetic variation among Scottish members of the UK Parliament may be influenced by
convergence to Southern English norms (Carr & Brulard, 2006) or political identity (eg, Hall …