Speech from unfamiliar talkers can be difficult to comprehend initially. These difficulties tend
to dissipate with exposure, sometimes within minutes or less. Adaptivity in response to …

This paper presents the first systematic acoustic analysis of a rhotic accent in present-day
England. The dataset comprises spontaneous and elicited speech of 28 speakers from …

Formants (vocal tract resonances) are increasingly analyzed not only by phoneticians in
speech but also by behavioral scientists studying diverse phenomena such as acoustic size …

Vowel merger production is quantified with gradient acoustic measures, while phonemic
perception methods are often coarser, complicating comparisons within mergers in …

This study compares 16 vowel-normalization methods for purposes of sociophonetic
research. Most of the previous work in this domain has focused on the performance of …

The late twentieth century in the United States marks the decline of regional vowel systems
like the Northern Cities Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift, replaced by supralocal systems …

The theme of this volume is generational trends in language change, with an emphasis on
the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition as an important period of time. Many studies have …

The current study investigates phonetic imitation of multiple acoustic features of pre-
nasal/æ/in California English. There is a great deal of cross-speaker heterogeneity: Many …

Change charting the course for deeper investigation of key regional American vowel chain
shifts taking both a linguistic and social perspective. But it seems safe to describe the last …

In recent decades, computational approaches to sociophonetic vowel analysis have been
steadily increasing, and sociolinguists now frequently use semi-automated systems for …