Language Variation and Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Language Variation and Change is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English14
Spatial, occupational, and age-related effects on reported variation in colloquial German12
How stable are patterns of covariation across time?11
Form and function covariation: Obligation modals in Australian English9
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Cumulative exposure to fast speech conditions duration of content words in English7
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Pathways of actualization across regional varieties and the real-time dynamics of syntactic change6
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Subject dislocation in Ontario English: Insights from sociolinguistic typology5
Three’s a crowd: Ternary (ing) variation in the North of England4
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Finding out about children’s language4
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On competing indexicalities in southern Peninsular Spanish. A sociophonetic and perceptual analysis of affricate [ts] through time4
Phonological mergers have systemic phonetic consequences:palm, trees, and the Low Back Merger Shift4
/t d/ Releases are strengthening among White speakers: Evidence from a large-scale acoustic study of English in Raleigh3
Post-educator relaxation in the U-shaped curve: Evidence from a panel study of Tyneside (ing)3
Agreeing when to disagree: A corpus analysis of variable agreement in caregiver and child English3
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New ways of analyzing complementizer drop in Montréal French: Exploration of cognitive factors2
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Medium-shifting and intraspeaker variation in conversational interviews2
Constraints on verbal -s/zero marking: New insights from Norwich1
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Part of town as an independent factor: thenorth-forcemerger in Manchester1
goose-fronting in Received Pronunciation across time: A trend study1
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Lifespan “Changes from Above” in the Standardization of Japanese Regional Dialects: Levels of Grammar, Lexical Properties and Community Characteristics1
Where didwergo? Lexical variation and change in third-person male adult noun referents in Old and Middle English0
Does the linguistic market explain sociolinguistic variation in spoken Swiss Standard German?0
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Variable grammars are variable across registers: future temporal reference in English0
Beyond binary gender: creaky voice, gender, and the variationist enterprise0
Intonation of Greek in contact with Turkish: a diachronic study0
Gritty Philadelphia: Orientation to local ideology as a predictor of sound change0
Early acquisition of syntactic variation: Lexical conditioning of Spanish variable clitic placement0
Possessive pronouns in Welsh: Stylistic variation and the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence0
Children’s participation in /u/-fronting in Ontario English0
Labov, William (1927–2024)0
Contextual frequency effects in children’s phonetic variation: The case of Spanish word-initial /d/0
Intra- and interspeaker repetitiveness in Chengdu Mandarin locative variation0
Quantifying transitivity: Uncovering relations of gender and power0
Contextualizing /s/ retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington D.C. African American Language0
Possessive pronouns in Welsh: Stylistic variation and the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence – Corrigendum0
Structure, Chronology, and Local Social Meaning of a Supra-Local Vowel Shift: Emergence of the Low-Back-Merger Shift in New England0
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The jet set: Modern RP and the (re)creation of social distinction0
A question of change: Putting five complementary measures to the test with French polar interrogatives0
Major life events as drivers of perceived linguistic change across adulthood0
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Variation in the production of Basque ergativity: Change or stable variation?0
Phonological emergence and social reorganization: Developing a nasal /æ/ system in Lansing, Michigan0
Quotation in earlier and contemporary Australian Aboriginal English0
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Why do we say them when we know it should be they? Twitter as a resource for investigating nonstandard syntactic variation in The Netherlands0
A variationist analysis of first-person-singular subject expression in Louisiana French0
Recipient passives in Mozambican Portuguese: A case of constructional alternation in the making0
A sociophonetic account of gradient /z/ devoicing among Chicanx high schoolers0
“I can't see myself ever living any[w]ere else”: Variation in (HW) in Edinburgh English0
Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change0
On the probability and direction of morphosyntactic lifespan change0
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The influence of language shift on Sanapaná vowels: An exemplar-based perspective0
[bɪt] by [bɪʔ]: Variation in T-glottaling in Scottish Standard English0
The role of internal constraints and stylistic congruence on a variant's social impact0
Re-examining the /eː-ɛː/ merger in Finland-Swedish: Regional and stylistic variation0
The Status of ain't in Philadelphia African American English0
Word-order variation in a contact setting: A corpus-based investigation of Russian spoken in Daghestan0
Dialect change and language attitudes in Albania0
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TH-stopping in Philadelphia Puerto Rican English0
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