The Handbook of Dialectology

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Charles Boberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University in Montreal Canada. His research focuses on variation and change in North American English particularly Canadian English and accents in film and television. He is the author of The English Language in Canada: Status History and Comparative Analysis (2010) and a co-author of the Atlas of North American English (with William Labov and Sharon Ash 2006). John Nerbonne worked at HP Labs the German AI Center and the University of Groningen where he was head of Digital Humanities. He is currently an honorary professor in Freiburg. Nerbonne works in quantitative linguistics using computational and statistical methods. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2002 and a Humboldt prize winner in 2013. Dominic Watt is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science at the University of York UK. His research interests are in forensic phonetics and linguistics speech perception sociophonetics and language and identity studies. He is co-author of English Accents and Dialects (with Arthur Hughes and Peter Trudgill 2012) and co-editor of Language and Identities (with Carmen Llamas 2010) and Language Borders and Identity (2014).