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Publication: Christopher Strelluf, Xinran Gao, Sophie Frankpitt, Cagla Karatepe, Ayman Alrajhi, and Holly Taylor
Christopher Strelluf, Xinran Gao, Sophie Frankpitt, Cagla Karatepe, Ayman Alrajhi, and Holly Taylor have published a new article examining lifespan language change and stability in the vowel system of Donald Trump, a lifelong speaker of New York City English.
Drawing on speech data spanning five decades, the study explores changes in Trump's production of the THOUGHT vowel, providing insights into patterns of linguistic change and stability across the lifespan. The research emerged from the Sociophonetics Reading Group in Applied Linguistics and was supported by Applied Linguistics research activity funding.
The article, published in American Speech, is titled:
Strelluf, C., Gao, X., Frankpitt, S., Karatepe, C., Alrajhi, A., & Taylor, H. (2026). Donald Trump Has Lowered thought for Five Decades: Lifespan Language Change and Stability in New York City English Vowels. American Speech, 101(3), 277–307.