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The Sounds of New Orleans: A sociophonetic study

Dana Serditova

The Sounds of New Orleans is the first book-length sociophonetic study of New Orleans English, one of the most distinctive yet understudied urban varieties of American English. Based on 114 sociolinguistic interviews, the book examines three salient Southern features — /l/-vocalization, the PIN~PEN… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G74] 2026. xvi, 221 pp. + index
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition: The role of prosody in turn-end prediction

Emilia Nottbeck

This volume investigates to what extent second language learners of English anticipate the end of a speaker’s turn during turn-taking and what role prosodic cues play in this process. Drawing on two reaction-time experiments that partially replicate earlier turn-taking studies, it compares native… read more
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 10] 2026. xx, 244 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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