What is ethnicity? Is there a'white'way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow
features of another ethnic group's language? Why do we sometimes hear an accent that isn't …

This bookinvestigates the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation by immersion students who
have learnt their second language primarily in an educational context. The student's mastery …

Very little work has directly examined the phonetic and phonological systems of heritage
speakers, and more specifically, heritage speakers of Spanish (HSS) as they have been …

This paper examines the use of phonetic variation in word‐final rhotics among nineteen
adult new speakers of Scottish Gaelic, ie speakers who did not acquire the language …

The Spanish vowel system is typically described as a simple, stable, five-vowel system that
exhibits little variation based on lexical stress (Delattre, 1969; Hualde, 2005; Navarro …

In this paper, we discuss current trends in sociolinguistic work focusing on language in
metropolitan Miami, an area we contend is underrepresented in the sociolinguistics …

Linguistic innovations that arise contemporaneously in highly distant locations, such as
quotative be like, have been termed 'global linguistic variants'. This is not necessarily to …

In this study, we investigate the ways in which three national-origin varieties of Spanish
commonly heard in metropolitan Miami—Cuban, Colombian, and Peninsular—are …

The present study examined second language (L2) development in the perceptual
identification of a dialectal sound of the target language, through an investigation of the role …

Names: Ball, Martin J.(Martin John), editor.| Mesthrie, Rajend, editor.| Meluzzi, Chiara, editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of sociolinguistics around the world/edited by Martin J. Ball …