Linguistic Varieties in North America A Guide for Speech and Language Practitioners

Elena Babatsouli is Associate Professor and the Blanco/BORSF Endowed Professor in Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech and co-edits the Multilingual Matters book series Communication Disorders Across Languages.

Yolanda F. Holt is an Independent Researcher and Senior Scientist of PPSS The Holt Lab Sociophonetic Acoustic Research Group in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. She is the Associate Editor for both Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Express Letters.

Karla N. Washington is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at University of Toronto, Canada. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools and an invited member of the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech.