Linguists have problematized the presentation of African American English (AAE) as a
uniform variety (Wolfram 2007; Yaeger-Dror & Thomas 2010). My work advances the …

Previous research demonstrates that listeners make social inferences about people based
on how they speak, and that these inferences vary depending on the linguistic and social …

This paper investigates the contribution of author/idiolect vs. register/type-of-text–as the most
salient factors influencing the final shape of a text–towards explaining the variation observed …

The study of sociolinguistic variation and change, which began with William Labov's work on
English phonetic variables in Massachusetts and New York in the 1960s (Labov 1963 …

We characterized the patterns of agreement variation and consistency in three corpora of
child and child-directed US English to better understand preschoolers' input and to compare …

Although speaking in noisy environments is a common occurrence, few studies have
investigated how noise affects language production beyond the acoustic level. In seeking to …

Studies providing evidence of social stratification for phonological variables in Toronto
English raise the question as to whether grammatical variables are similarly stratified …

Although number nonagreement is typically stigmatized and relatively uncommon in
English, it is the norm in existential there constructions. Specifically, the nonagreeing form …

This chapter presents the results of a study looking at agreement in existential constructions
in Nigerian English (NigE). It compares the spoken and written components of ICE Nigeria …

The introduction of the linguistic variable in Labov's 1966 “The Linguistic Variable as a
Structural Unit” ushered in the new subfield of variationist linguistics, with the linguistic …