Pocholo Umbal
List of John Benjamins publications in which Pocholo Umbal is involved.
Articles
2025 Stability in the face of contact: /u/ in (Heritage) Tagalog Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific, Satyanath, Shobha (ed.), pp. 41–71 | Article
The sociolinguistic realities of multilingualism raise questions about the linguistic outcomes of language contact. The present study addresses this issue in the context of heritage languages. It investigates whether the relative backness of /u/ in Heritage Tagalog exhibits crosslinguistic… read more
2024 Variation in Asian and Pacific Islander North American English: What the patterns of scholarship demonstrate about race in sociolinguistics Asia-Pacific Language Variation 10:1, pp. 67–105 | Article
Within sociolinguistic research on English variation, Asian and Pacific Islander North Americans (APINAs) are frequently described as an “understudied population” due to the relative lack of published studies that analyze these speakers or communities. This structured literature review… read more

