Twenty years after the publication of a special issue in this journal on non-modal phonation
(JPhon 2001: 49 (4)), the phonetic study of voice quality has shown impressive progress …

Abstract In American English, a glottal stop is sometimes pronounced in place of an
expected syllable coda/t/, and audible glottalization is attested before both/t/and/p/in coda …

This paper evaluates global-scale dialect identification for 14 national varieties of English as
a means for studying syntactic variation. The paper makes three main contributions:(i) …

The existence of a shared constraint hierarchy is one of the criteria that defines and delimits
speech communities. In particular, women and men are thought to differ only in their rates of …

Work in perceptual dialectology has argued that listeners' successful identification of accent
areas is facilitated by their geographical proximity to a particular region. Montgomery (,) …

Automatically time-aligning utterances at the segmental level is increasingly common
practice in phonetic and sociophonetic work because of the obvious benefits it brings in …

An in-depth exploration of the sound systems of varieties of English around the world, written
by a renowned authority in the field In Sounds of English Worldwide, Raymond Hickey …

There has been a substantial amount of research on language maintenance and shift
(LMLS) and language variation and change (LVC) in New Zealand in the last four decades …

This paper explores the use and position of Scouse in middle-class secondary schools.
Despite a wide circulation of a 'variation ideology'(Cameron, 1995) that embraces and …

The aim of this chapter is to paint in broad strokes some of the key dimensions of innovation
and change in patterns of pronunciation of British English and to demonstrate that variation …