Deciding what to code for in archived online corpora from sociolinguistic recordings is important, but enriching such recordings to include more variable situations is an important prerequisite if these corpora are to serve as a resource for the analysis of situational or stylistic variation, still a neglected variable in sociolinguistic theory and analysis. Accordingly, much of this paper is d...

Across languages of the world /r/ is known for its variability. Recent literature incorporates sociolinguistic factors, such as bilingualism, in order to explain /r/ variation. The current study investigates to what extent /r/ is a marker of a bilingual’s dominant language. Specifically, the effects of several sociolinguistic and phonotactic factors on the production and perception of /r/ are i...

Over the past few years I have been engaged in a collaborative research project examining a collection of sociological interviews with ten adolescent African American girls in Washington, DC (Froyum Roise 2004; Kendall 2009; Mallinson & Kendall forthcoming). A major thread of our work with these recordings has focused on assessing the degree and manner to which these recordings, conducted by th...