Developmental sociolinguistics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary framework that builds
upon theoretical and methodological contributions from multiple disciplines (ie …

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 …

Child sex and family socioeconomic status (SES) have been repeatedly identified as a
source of inter-individual variation in language development; yet their interactions have …

This article presents an overview of empirical findings to date concerning the acquisition of
liaison in French as a first and second language (L1 and L2, respectively). We present data …

Sociolinguistic studies have shown that linguistic usage is closely related to social
relationships and interactions between individuals. This has been established in adults and …

Variation in speech has always been important to phonetic theory, but takes center stage in
the growing area of sociophonetics, which places the role of the social at the heart of the …

Over the past decade, there has been a clear increase in awareness of social and
contextual perspectives in the field of second language acquisition (Atkinson, 2002; Ortega …

The present study analyses 3-to 6-year-old children's dialect-standard repertoires in an
Austrian-Bavarian sociolinguistic setting and investigates how far individual repertoires can …

Dialects are one of the parallels that have long been established between human language
and animal communication. We discuss the potential functional parallels between human …

Liaison is a sandhi phenomenon in French. Over the last four decades, it has given rise to
many different models illustrating the whole range of phonological theories. More recently …