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The Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Kansas studies the relationships between language variation, social meaning, and cognition

We are interested in questions like: How does language vary and change? What do people know about language and the way people use it? How does this knowledge develop? And how do people use this knowledge when communicating? We run experiments, delve into language corpora, and collect naturalistic speech data to answer these questions.