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Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 177-192, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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Does Geographic Relocation Induce the Loss of Features from a Single Speaker’s Native Dialect?

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
Over the past few years, academics such as Sankoff and Blondeau (2007) and Harrington (2006) have exhibited a marked interest in dialect variation and language change across the lifespan.
Hollie Barker
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Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 144-162, March 2026.
Abstract Although there is a bourgeoning of studies on attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes, there is limited research on the effects of participants’ discipline (STEM and non‐STEM) and the type of secondary school (private and government) they attended in evaluating Nigerian Englishes.
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
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Sociophonetics and Clinical Linguistics [PDF]

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Ghada Khattab, Gerrard Docherty
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Robustness and Complexity in Italian Mid Vowel Contrasts

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Accounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose patterning reveals speakers’ knowledge about their native language.
Margaret E. L. Renwick
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“Whey Aye My Good Sir”: Has Cheryl Fernandez-Versini’s Accent Moved from Tyneside English to RP?

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
This article analyses the speech of Cheryl Fernandez-Versini (nee Tweedy, formerly Cole), henceforth “Cheryl” , who experienced rapid geographical and socioeconomic mobility between 2002 and 2014.
Victoria Wallace
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Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales.
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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Supernanny: An Intraspeaker Study of Addressee Effects in the Speech of Jo Frost

Lifespans and Styles, 2017
Limited research exists evaluating the extent to which intraspeaker style-shifting is conditioned by addressee age and addressee nationality. The current study investigated Supernanny Jo Frost’s realisations of (t) as glottal or non-glottal towards ...
Chloe Blackwood
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The pitfalls of near-mergers: A sociophonetic approach to near-demergers in the Malaga /θ/ vs /s/ split

Open Linguistics, 2023
The near-merger hypothesis has served to explain many situations where other explanations have not sufficed, including mainly those where apparently completed mergers have been reversed.
Molina García Álvaro
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Buenas no[tʃ]es y mu[ts]isimas gracias: A Sociophonetic Study of the Alveolar Affricate in Peninsular Spanish Political Speech

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While variation in the southern Peninsular Spanish affricate /tʃ/ has been considered in the context of deaffrication to [ʃ], this study examines an emergent variant [ts] in the context of sociolinguistic identity and style in political speech.
Matthew Pollock
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