Ground-breaking studies on how Bangkok Thai tones have changed over the past 100 years
(,;) reveal a pattern that term the “clockwise tone shift cycle:” low> falling> high level or rising …

Abstract Deori is a Tibeto-Burman (henceforth TB) language belonging to the Bodo-Garo
sub family [5]. It is spoken in the eastern parts of Assam and some parts of Arunachal …

Tone is an integral part of many of the world's languages, yet tone variation is understudied,
especially in acoustic sociophonetics. This chapter outlines the exciting opportunities and …

Language change within minority languages is still an underdocumented area of
sociolinguistic research. This study addresses that gap by focusing on two speech varieties …

The scope and themes in Chinese sociolinguistics have grown considerably since the start
of the economic reforms in 1978 as the result of Mandarin Chinese being widely spoken …

Objetivos Este panel tiene los siguientes objetivos:-Contribuir al conocimiento de la
variación lingüística, incidiendo en qué, cómo y posiblemente por qué existe variación en …