6. Structural and Social Correlations with the Low-Back-Merger Shift in a U.S. Midland community

CHRISTOPHER STRELLUF is an assistant professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Mis-souri in 2014. His research interests include language variation and change, socio-phonetics, dialectology, and interactions between language and power. He recently authored Speaking from the Heartland: The Midland Vowel System of Kansas City (PADS 103, Duke University Press, 2018). Email: c.strelluf@warwick.ac.uk.