Investigators have recently made impressive progress in multiple areas of sociophonetics.
One area is the use of increasingly sophisticated phonetic analysis, which is demonstrating …

In this article we define and illustrate sociophonetic variation within speech, highlighting
both its pervasiveness and also the relatively minor role it has played in the development of …

The perspective that I will develop in these pages, 1 what has come to be referred to as the
“Third Wave” approach to variation, 2 takes as basic that the meaningfulness of …

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 …

Prosodic rhythm was measured for a sample of 20 African American and 20 European
American speakers from North Carolina using the metric devised by Low, Grabe and Nolan …

Mastering the pronunciation of a second language (L2) is considered extremely difficult, and
few individuals succeed in sounding like a native speaker when learning a L2 in adulthood …

Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its
varied influences across multiple generations, this volume provides true insight into how …

The situation of sustained contact between Spanish and English in Miami during the past
half century provides a rare opportunity to study contact-induced language change in an …

This study examines the relative contribution of prosody and segments in the perception of
foreign-accented speech. Although both prosody and segments have previously been …

Abstract Varieties of Native American English, especially those spoken by groups east of the
Mississippi River, have been relatively underrepresented in the description of ethnolinguistic …