Introduction: Tracing the origin of /s/ variation

Levon, Erez; Maegaard, Marie; Pharao, Nicolai (2017). Introduction: Tracing the origin of /s/ variation. Linguistics, 55(5), pp. 979-992. De Gruyter 10.1515/ling-2017-0016

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This paper provides an introduction to the papers in this special issue on the sociophonetics of /s/. We begin by reviewing some of the principal findings on variation in the production and perception of /s/, summarizing studies in sociolinguistics, experimental phonetics, and laboratory phonology. We go on to identify similarities in the meanings associated with /s/ variation cross-linguistically, and briefly describe how theories of sound symbolism may help us to account for these patterns. We conclude this introductory article with a summary of the contributions to the special issue and a discussion of how together these articles help us to better understand that origin and trajectory of socially meaningful sociophonetic variation.

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