Aims and objectives: This paper aims to examine the acquisition of phonetics and
phonology in the context of Scottish Gaelic immersion schooling. I explore the effect of …

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 …

This article examines the co‐occurring realization of two sociophonetic variables within a
style—the LOT vowel in English and word‐initial/l/—to explore the link between articulatory …

This dissertation explores the role of affect in sociolinguistic style. Styles--or clusters of
socially meaningful linguistic features--are central to the projection of social types or …

This investigation examines the variable production of alveolar laterals in Barcelonan
Spanish as a case study evidencing the effects of language contact between a majority …

Linguistic input in multi-lingual/-cultural contexts is highly variable. We examined the
production of English and Malay laterals by fourteen early bilingual preschoolers in …

Previous research has shown that pre-aspiration can be a phonemic and a variable
linguistic feature susceptible to linguistic and extra-linguistic influences. In the case of …

This study investigates cross-linguistic transfer in the production of long mid front vowels
[øː] and [œː] by simultaneous bilingual Finnish and Finland-Swedish speakers in Finland …

Aims: The purpose of this research was to gain a better understanding of accent perception
in language contact situations in which monolingual speakers of a contact variety and …

This study investigates effects of long-term language contact and individual linguistic
experience on the realization of lexical stress correlates in Welsh and Welsh English. To this …