This paper investigates glottalization rates of word-final /t/ in Wisconsin English over time, based on both historical (1950s) and newly collected (2018) recordings of W[...]

Luraghi (2009) presents a good argument that the Proto-Indo-European *-(e)h2 suffix, which came to be an inflection marker of the feminine grammatical gender in the nucle[...]

There are numerous theories of second language vocabulary acquisition and teaching. This research employs a mixed methods with a grounded approach to determine how second[...]

Clarke and Oconee County, GA are two communities which are geographically located within a few miles of each other, but display strong cultural difference. Clarke County[...]

In US English, the merging of the voiceless labiovelar glide [hw] and its voiced counterpart [w] has been an ongoing process over the past century, originating in central[...]

In United States English, morpheme-initial <wh> exhibits sociophonetic variation between competing segments [hw] and [w]. Once the standard and prestige variant, [h[...]

The present study investigates phonetic variation in two Southern US counties with the goal of untangling how cultural and place-based identities can contribute to lingui[...]

Sociolinguistic research finds that people with strong ties to the place where they live are more likely to use local dialect features, but what happens when the cultural[...]

This paper explores a non-cartographic and a cartographic approach for the syntax of the Finnish –han enclitic. These sketches are based on an analysis which posits that [...]

The incremental derivations of phase theory (Chomsky, 2001, 2005, etc.) raise the question of the directionality of derivations (den Dikken, 2018). In this squib, I outli[...]

The study of English intensifiers has been of interest in sociolinguistic research. This paper analyzes the variation of common intensifiers very and really in a corpus o[...]

The purpose of this paper is to hypothesize the difficulties native speakers of Russian will have in the acquisition of American English monophthong vowels based on the p[...]

Regularization of Germanic strong verbs is an expected process. Lieberman et al. (2007) and Carroll et al. (2012) showed that less common verbs are more likely to regular[...]

The existence of an isolated community of French speakers in the Ozarks of Missouri is documented in the works of Miller (1930), Carrière (1937), and Dorrance (1935). Alt[...]

In a seminal text in the diachronic study of Oceanic languages, Malcolm Ross (1988:141,147) reports the sound change Proto-Oceanic *R > lk/_# in the language Kaiwa. A [...]

The Gothic language is unique among Germanic languages in several regards. It is the only one to retain a synthetic passive, an inheritance of the Indo-European medio-pas[...]

This paper explores the relationship between EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher motivational strategies and student motivation. Previous research has shown a pos[...]

This paper addresses perceived blocking effects of the English adjectival prefix un- and the accuracy of its identification as a negator. Since un- appears to pattern amo[...]

The Australian Aboriginal language Jingulu exhibits an affix-triggered vowel harmony pattern that deviates from usual typological predictions. High vowels in a handful of[...]

Prevelar raising, or the raising of /ɛ/ before voiced velars, has been treated as a sound change that applies uniformly across relevant lexical items. Using self-reported[...]

It has been shown that cross-linguistic variation between languages affects categorical perception in bilinguals. However, only a few cross-linguistic differences and the[...]

In this paper, I propose that blend words can be treated as a form of correspondence between multiple inputs. Based on this suggestion, the theoretical claim underlying m[...]

One of the numerous phonological features that sets Classical Armenian apart from its Indo- European sister languages is the numerous instances of metathesis, many of whi[...]