Abstract Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is reaching further and further into everyday
life with Apple's Siri, Google voice search, automated telephone information systems …

Sociophonetics focuses on the relationship between phonetic or phonological form on the
one hand, and social and regional factors on the other, working across fields as diverse as …

Southern varieties of English are known to be affected by the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS),
which alters the positional relationship between the front tense/lax system. However …

Since their introduction to sociolinguistics by Hay, Warren, and Drager [(2006). J.
Phon.(Modell. Sociophon. Var.) 34 (4), 458–484], Pillai scores have become a standard …

Although it was the focus of several publications by Carroll Reed in the 1950s and early
1960s, English spoken in the Pacific Northwestern United States (PNWE) has received …

This article analyzes the sociophonetic dynamics of the acquisition of a prestige variety of
English in post-apartheid South Africa. New economic and educational opportunities have …

The research in this dissertation focuses on the documentation and analysis of vowel
variation and sound change in Columbus, OH. Columbus is a Midland speech community …

This chapter offers guidance in incorporating an ethnographic approach to fieldwork based
on data collection through sociolinguistic interviews. It focuses on methods for conducting …

During a merger-in-progress, occasionally one or two speakers will exhibit an unusual
phonological pattern reminiscent of flip-flop (Labov et al. 1972). In such cases, the merging …

This article presents the results of an ethnographically informed sociolinguistic investigation
of Glaswegian Vernacular and examines the intersection between language and identity …