Distinguishing linguistic change at the community level ('generational change') from
linguistic change at the individual level ('age grading') is “one of the major issues in …

Though scholarly understandings of sociolinguistic variation have undergone a significant
expansion in the last 70 years, variables in the realm of prosody remain severely …

When non-Orthodox Jews become frum (religious), they encounter much more than dietary
laws and Sabbath prohibitions. They find themselves in the midst of a whole new culture …

The Spanish vowel system is typically described as a simple, stable, five-vowel system that
exhibits little variation based on lexical stress (Delattre, 1969; Hualde, 2005; Navarro …

The present dissertation has two main goals: 1) to provide a descriptive, acoustic
characterization of the heritage Spanish vowel system and 2) to assess the extent to which …

In paired dialect identification tasks, differing only by speakers' sex, New Yorkers were
asked to identify the race and national heritage of other New Yorkers. Each task included …

The intersections of issues of race, identity and language are at a pivotal moment in the
modern US, with the rapidly increasing percentage of the population identifying as more …

This paper is equal parts methodological recommendation and an empirical investigation of
the time dimensions of linguistic change. It is increasingly common in the sociolinguistic …

Interest in longitudinal sociolinguistic research has grown considerably over the past
decade. This chapter notes that the major reason for this surge of interest is that longitudinal …

Apparent time studies have found that both stable and changing sociolinguistic variables
demonstrate an age-graded pattern of use in any given speech community. Younger …