The third edition of World Englishes provides an engaging overview of the global variations
in vocabulary, grammar, phonology and pragmatics of English as it is used worldwide. This …

English in Modern Times describes the development of the English language from 1700
until 1945, and argues that it is in the course of this later modern English period that the …

Recent research has been concerned with whether speech accommodation is an automatic
process or determined by social factors (eg Trudgill 2008). This paper investigates phonetic …

The second edition of this distinguished textbook introduces undergraduates to the
concepts, terminology and representations needed for an understanding of how English is …

Language Myths and the History of English aims to deconstruct the myths that are
traditionally reproduced as factual accounts of the historical development of English. Using …

The study of phonetic variation and change has tended to concentrate on particular
variables in isolation, and it has proven challenging to move beyond an analysis of …

Phonetic aspects of many languages have been documented, though the breadth and focus
of such documentation varies substantially. In this survey, phonetic aspects (here called …

Language documentation faces a persistent and pervasive problem: How much material is
enough to represent a language fully? How much text would we need to sample the full …

Acoustic analysis of word-list and sentence data from a database of spoken New Zealand
English is used to address the suggestion that a number of vowel contrasts in this variety are …

The presence of culturally significant objects has been shown to induce biases in speech
perception consistent with features of the dialect relevant to the object. Questions remain …