Language Variation and Change

Papers
(The TQCC of Language Variation and Change is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Spatial, occupational, and age-related effects on reported variation in colloquial German18
Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English14
How stable are patterns of covariation across time?13
Form and function covariation: Obligation modals in Australian English11
Cumulative exposure to fast speech conditions duration of content words in English9
LVC volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Front matter8
LVC volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Back matter7
Pathways of actualization across regional varieties and the real-time dynamics of syntactic change6
Three’s a crowd: Ternary (ing) variation in the North of England6
LVC volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Back matter6
LVC volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Front matter6
On competing indexicalities in southern Peninsular Spanish. A sociophonetic and perceptual analysis of affricate [ts] through time6
Finding out about children’s language4
Subject dislocation in Ontario English: Insights from sociolinguistic typology4
/t d/ Releases are strengthening among White speakers: Evidence from a large-scale acoustic study of English in Raleigh3
Phonological mergers have systemic phonetic consequences:palm, trees, and the Low Back Merger Shift3
LVC volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Back matter3
LVC volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Back matter3
Post-educator relaxation in the U-shaped curve: Evidence from a panel study of Tyneside (ing)2
Medium-shifting and intraspeaker variation in conversational interviews2
Agreeing when to disagree: A corpus analysis of variable agreement in caregiver and child English2
LVC volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Back matter2
LVC volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
A linguistic phoenix: The recycling of very in Ontario English2
Part of town as an independent factor: thenorth-forcemerger in Manchester2
Constraints on verbal -s/zero marking: New insights from Norwich2
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