Sociophonetics–the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics–is a field that has expanded
rapidly in recent years. A subject that requires both methodological and theoretical …

Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

This chapter presents a working model of L2 intonation learning, the L2 Intonation Learning
theory (LILt), which ultimately aims to account for the difficulties that L2 learners encounter in …

This dissertation develops a theory of contrastive topics (CTs)—what they mean, and how
they are realized. I give a compositional semantics for CT constructions, built on the idea that …

This chapter evaluates the available evidence on the question of whether Outer Circle
varieties of English tend to be more syllable-timed than Inner Circle varieties. Although a …

This review article discusses some fundamental issues regarding linguistic functions of
prosody that underlies speech variation on the surface. An important premise of the current …

Appalachia, the mountainous region that stretches from northern Georgia to Pennsylvania
(ARC, 2015), is a region that has been considered culturally and linguistically unique in the …

The objective of the present study was to investigate (1) whether, and to what degree, late
bilinguals of different L1 backgrounds are comparable to native speakers in the phonetic …

Prosody is an umbrella term used to cover a variety of interconnected and interacting
phenomena, namely stress, rhythm, phrasing, and intonation. The phonetic expression of …

This study investigates the coordination of boundary tones as a function of stress and pitch
accent. Boundary tone coordination has not been experimentally investigated previously …