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Asia-Pacific Language Variation This journal aims to report research on the description and analysis of variation and change from the Asia-Pacific region. The journal encourages research that is firmly based on empirical data and…

APLV is thrilled to announce our new Editors-in-Chief,
Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Rebecca Starr, as well as new Associate Editors
Wilkinson Gonzales and Nick Palfreyman. As always, we welcome your submissions on language variation and change in Asia! benjamins.com/catalog/aplv...

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Registers in the Bahnar dialects in Vietnam: A sociophonetic study The Bahnar language, a member of the Northern Bahnaric branch of the Mon-Khmer family, shows distinctive register contrasts that provide important insights into the process of registrogenesis. This…

New on APLV: Đinhet al., Registers in the Bahnar dialects in Vietnam: A sociophonetic study. benjamins.com/catalog/aplv...

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Embodying shifting political styles: Sibilant and gestural variation by a Taiwanese young legislator This study examines multimodal linguistic variation in the political discourse of Taiwanese legislator Pin-Yu Lai (PYL), focusing on her stylistic shifts during parliamentary interpellations.…

New on APLV: Wan & Liu, Embodying shifting political styles: Sibilant and gestural variation by a Taiwanese young legislator benjamins.com/catalog/aplv...

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Variation and change in Philippine languages: Trends, challenges, and pathways forward This article offers the first curated synthesis of sociolinguistic research on variation and change in Philippine languages. It pursues two interrelated aims: to map and evaluate the existing body of…

New on APLV: Wilkinson Gonzales. Variation and change in Philippine languages
Trends, challenges, and pathways forward. benjamins.com/catalog/aplv...

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Detecting paths of change in the heritage context: Directional motion event expression in Cantonese spoken in Toronto and Hong Kong This study examines path encoding in motion event expression in Cantonese spoken in Toronto and Hong Kong using a comparative variationist methodology informed by motion event typology. It…

New on APLV: Justin Leung on directional motion event expression in the Cantonese spoken in Toronto and Hong Kong! benjamins.com/catalog/aplv...

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APLV Call for Papers: Special Issue on Multilingualism and Language Contact! More info on our Facebook page: https://buff.ly/3Xe4F48

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Asia-Pacific Language Variation is now on Bluesky!

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