Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals

Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. The origins of the variable -s-marking patterns of present-tense verbs in earlier African American English (AAE) have been widely argued, with one of the most common arguments stating that the pattern is …

Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print. Against the backdrop of the fading Southern Vowel Shift, this paper explores the degree to which different young adults maintain or forego the SVS as a function of demographic traits and self-reported pol…