Ping Hei Yeung studies variation and change in “Outer Circle” varieties of English, including those spoken in Hong Kong and Malaysia. His work examines contact-induced segmental and prosodic changes in these varieties, and the influence of language attitudes on how individuals participate in these changes.
Abby Killam is interested in how media reflects and influences language variation and change. Her current work investigates how dialect contact via new media (such as podcasts) can shape language attitudes and influence the uptake of new linguistic features.
Claire Henderson’s work deals with dialect contact between Canadian and American English and how it shapes phonetic variation in each variety. She is interested in how national identity influences individuals’ use of vowel features such as Canadian Raising and the Low-Back-Merger-Shift.