Individuals, Communities, and Sound Change

The papers in this collection consider the role of individual differences in the actuation and spread of sound change. They explore how individual differences relate to community patterns; how they impact variation; and the degree to which they affect the initiation, phonologization, and propagation of change.

Guest Editors: James Kirby, Lauren Hall-Lew, & Patrick Honeybone


Research Article

Pushes and pulls from below: Anatomical variation, articulation and sound change
Pushes and pulls from below: Anatomical variation, articulation and sound change

Dan Dediu and Scott R. Moisik

2019-01-11 2019 • Volume 4

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Associating the origin and spread of sound change using agent-based modelling applied to /s/-retraction in English
Associating the origin and spread of sound change using agent-based modelling applied to /s/-retraction in English

Mary Stevens, Jonathan Harrington and Florian Schiel

2019-01-14 2019 • Volume 4

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The individual in the semiotic landscape
The individual in the semiotic landscape

Penelope Eckert

2019-01-25 2019 • Volume 4

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Perturbing the community grammar: Individual differences and community-level constraints on sociolinguistic variation
Perturbing the community grammar: Individual differences and community-level constraints on sociolinguistic variation

Laurel MacKenzie

2019-02-11 2019 • Volume 4

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Bipartite network structures and individual differences in sound change
Bipartite network structures and individual differences in sound change

Robin Dodsworth

2019-06-18 2019 • Volume 4

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Sound change and coarticulatory variability involving English /ɹ/
Sound change and coarticulatory variability involving English /ɹ/

Bridget J. Smith, Jeff Mielke, Lyra Magloughlin and Eric Wilbanks

2019-06-19 2019 • Volume 4

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The initiation and incrementation of sound change: Community-oriented momentum-sensitive learning
The initiation and incrementation of sound change: Community-oriented momentum-sensitive learning

Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero

2020-12-23 2020 • Volume 5

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Toward an individual-difference perspective on phonologization
Toward an individual-difference perspective on phonologization

Alan C. L. Yu

2021-02-04 2021 • Volume 6

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Individuals, communities, and sound change: an introduction
Individuals, communities, and sound change: an introduction

Lauren Hall-Lew, Patrick Honeybone and James Kirby

2021-05-17 2021 • Volume 6

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