Recent protest movements brought attention to the one percent, a segment of the population that is critical to understanding inequality and social mobility but that attracts relatively little research attention. In this article, I survey current research on the one percent in the United States. I distinguish income from wealth and show that both are very concentrated but that the concentration ...

Abstract The current study is a partial replication of Flege and Port (Language Speech 24(2):125–146, 1981), which examined the production pre-fortis clipping (i.e., vowel shortening before voiceless obstruents) by Saudi L2 English speakers. In addition, it whether language experience operationalized as length residence in an English-speaking country, had any positive effect on 16 speakers were...