Rhotics, or r-sounds, are known to display a large amount of variation, both cross-
linguistically and within particular languages. Dutch is an example of such a language: even …

From a global and historical perspective, multilingualism or at least multilectalism is the rule
rather than the exception. However, linguistic theory continues to focus on the idea of a …

Most discussions of English phonology argue that rhoticity and r-sandhi are necessarily in
complementary distribution, citing the diachronic path that led to the loss of rhoticity and the …

The following paper explores the link between production difficulty and grammatical
variability. Using a sub-sample of the Switchboard Corpus of American English (285 …

An in-depth exploration of the sound systems of varieties of English around the world, written
by a renowned authority in the field In Sounds of English Worldwide, Raymond Hickey …

Linguistic expressions in social media vary along many axes, including author style, the
specific medium and its affordances, and others. In this paper, we argue that different …

Deuber (2006) investigated variation in spoken Nigerian Pidgin data by educated speakers
and found no evidence for a continuum of lects between Nigerian Pidgin and Nigerian …

This chapter is concerned with medical discourse which is produced beyond the established
roles of doctors and patients. The text varieties investigated are all somewhat hybrid, either …

The present work proposes a non-binary evaluation of contrast in syntax and elaborates the
benefits of considering gradience and degree in syntactic study. Contrast is one of the most …