Session 15 – Phonology-Consonants Sociolinguists have occasionally mentioned regressive assimilation of the voiced interdental fricative /ð/ to a preceding consonant as a feature of some vernacular dialects or at least " colloquial " speech. For example, Wolfram and Christian (1976) found tokens of an' nen for " and then " and all le for " all the. " However, there has been very little quantita...

This study investigates the effects of different elicitation methods on the speech of a single speaker of San Francisco English who is participating in a systematic set of vocalic sound changes known as the California Vowel Shift [6]. We contrast data obtained from classic sociolinguistic interview methods with data from self-recordings, as well as data from various methods for eliciting sponta...

Hong Kong English (HKE) has been the subject of a growing body of research over the last few decades. This article presents an overview of research into HKE from both linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. The first section reviews the linguistic features of HKE at phonological, grammatical and lexical levels as documented in the literature. In the second section of the article, the devel...

This paper examines an English textbook used in Turkey within the context of sociolinguistic issues. Various studies on book evaluation can be found literature; however, there seems to very limited research analysing course books from a perspective. By employing qualitative design, 3rd grade Just Fun (Tiras, 2019) published for public primary schools was analysed using Sociolinguistic Textbook ...