Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Sociophonetics Studies of Language Variety Production and Perception -- Chapter 1. The Peripatetic History of Middle English *ε† -- Chapter 2. Social and Phonetic Conditioners on the Frequency and Degree of "intrusive /r/" in New Zealand English -- Chapter 3. Effects of Consonantal Context on the Pronunciation of /æ/ in the English of Speakers of Mexican Heritage from South Central Michigan -- Chapter 4. Rhythm Types and the Speech of Working-Class Youth in a Banlieue of Paris: The Role of Vowel Elision and Devoicing -- Chapter 5. The Sociophonetics of Prosodic Contours on NEG in Three Language Communities: Teasing apart Sociolinguistic and Phonetic Influences on Speech -- Chapter 6. An Emerging Gender Difference in Japanese Vowel Devoicing -- Chapter 7. Regional Stereotypes and the Perception of Japanese Vowel Devoicing -- Chapter 8. Phonetic Detail, Linguistic Experience, and the Classification of Regional Language Varieties in the United States -- Chapter 9. Perceptions of /a/ fronting Across Two Michigan Dialects -- Chapter 10. Belle's Body Just Caught the Fit Gnat: The Perception of Northern Cities Shifted Vowels by Local Speakers -- Chapter 11. Linguistic Security, Ideology, and Vowel Perception -- Chapter 12. Identification of African American Speech -- Chapter 13. Phonetic Detail in the Perception of Ethnic Varieties of US English -- Chapter 14. Sound Judgments: Perception of Indexical Features in Children's Speech -- Chapter 15. Avant-garde Dutch: A Perceptual, Acoustic, and Evaluational Study -- Chapter 16. Aspects of the Acoustic Analysis of Imitation -- Chapter 17. The Cycle of Production, Ideology, and Perception in the Speech of Memphis, Tennessee -- Backmatter.