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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Spatial, occupational, and age-related effects on reported variation in colloquial German19
Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English15
How stable are patterns of covariation across time?15
Form and function covariation: Obligation modals in Australian English12
Cumulative exposure to fast speech conditions duration of content words in English9
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Pathways of actualization across regional varieties and the real-time dynamics of syntactic change7
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Finding out about children’s language6
Three’s a crowd: Ternary (ing) variation in the North of England6
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Subject dislocation in Ontario English: Insights from sociolinguistic typology4
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
Post-educator relaxation in the U-shaped curve: Evidence from a panel study of Tyneside (ing)3
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A linguistic phoenix: The recycling of very in Ontario English3
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/t d/ Releases are strengthening among White speakers: Evidence from a large-scale acoustic study of English in Raleigh3
Agreeing when to disagree: A corpus analysis of variable agreement in caregiver and child English2
Regional differences in Central Yiddish vowel length: Central Poland and the Unterland2
Constraints on verbal -s/zero marking: New insights from Norwich2
Medium-shifting and intraspeaker variation in conversational interviews2
Part of town as an independent factor: thenorth-forcemerger in Manchester2
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goose-fronting in Received Pronunciation across time: A trend study2
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A variationist analysis of first-person-singular subject expression in Louisiana French1
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Possessive pronouns in Welsh: Stylistic variation and the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence – Corrigendum1
The influence of language shift on Sanapaná vowels: An exemplar-based perspective0
Phonological emergence and social reorganization: Developing a nasal /æ/ system in Lansing, Michigan0
Re-examining the /eː-ɛː/ merger in Finland-Swedish: Regional and stylistic variation0
Recipient passives in Mozambican Portuguese: A case of constructional alternation in the making0
Intra- and interspeaker repetitiveness in Chengdu Mandarin locative variation0
The intersection of ethnicity and social class in language variation and change0
Frenching it up: The English future temporal reference system in a French-Canadian dominant town0
“I can't see myself ever living any[w]ere else”: Variation in (HW) in Edinburgh English0
Variable grammars are variable across registers: future temporal reference in English0
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The intersection of ethnicity and social class in language variation and change – ERRATUM0
Major life events as drivers of perceived linguistic change across adulthood0
TH-stopping in Philadelphia Puerto Rican English0
Variation in the production of Basque ergativity: Change or stable variation?0
The jet set: Modern RP and the (re)creation of social distinction0
On the probability and direction of morphosyntactic lifespan change0
Labov, William (1927–2024)0
Children’s participation in /u/-fronting in Ontario 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
Contextual frequency effects in children’s phonetic variation: The case of Spanish word-initial /d/0
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Does the linguistic market explain sociolinguistic variation in spoken Swiss Standard German?0
A question of change: Putting five complementary measures to the test with French polar interrogatives0
Dialect change and language attitudes in Albania0
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The role of internal constraints and stylistic congruence on a variant's social impact0
Quantifying transitivity: Uncovering relations of gender and power0
The Status of ain't in Philadelphia African American English0
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Early acquisition of syntactic variation: Lexical conditioning of Spanish variable clitic placement0
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[bɪt] by [bɪʔ]: Variation in T-glottaling in Scottish Standard English0
Possessive pronouns in Welsh: Stylistic variation and the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence0
Where didwergo? Lexical variation and change in third-person male adult noun referents in Old and Middle English0
Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change0
Beyond binary gender: creaky voice, gender, and the variationist enterprise0
Quotation in earlier and contemporary Australian Aboriginal English0
A sociophonetic account of gradient /z/ devoicing among Chicanx high schoolers0
Gritty Philadelphia: Orientation to local ideology as a predictor of sound change0
Intonation of Greek in contact with Turkish: a diachronic study0
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