The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide
survey of the field, this textbook is organised around three constraints on variation: linguistic …

This paper examines linguistic, cognitive, and social factors in the development of an
ongoing sound change in Andalusian Spanish related to the crosslinguistically well-known …

Accents and dialects of English and Scots in Britain have been under active investigation for
many decades, as reported through the Survey of English Dialects (Orton et al. 1962–71) …

The Sociophonetics of Dublin English shows how social inequalities and language are
connected by the stances speakers take in interaction. It is based on an instrumental …

Corpus Perspectives on the Spoken Models used by EFL Teachers illustrates the key
principles and practical guidelines for the design and exploitation of corpora for classroom …

The proposal to compile an International Corpus of English (ICE) was first published in a
brief note by Greenbaum (1988). In a later discussion of the ICE project, Greenbaum (1996b …

The varieties of English spoken in southern Ireland are noted for the reduction in the
articulation of alveolar segments, chiefly/t/. This has a long history and is amply attested in …

After a brief discussion of the concept of language variation, some of the main characteristics
of 'rule-based'and usage-based paradigms are sketched, confined to the domain of …

This book explores the ways in which linguistic variation and complex social practices
interact toward the formation of male interactional identities in a sports club in Dublin …

Abstract John M. Kirk & Jeffrey L. Kallen (Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College
Dublin) Conventional wisdom since the earliest studies of Irish English has attributed much …