This article examines the co‐occurring realization of two sociophonetic variables within a style—the LOT vowel in English and word‐initial /l/—to explore the link between articulatory setting and stylistic practice. At an arts‐focused high school in the San Francisco Bay Area, the curricular and social practices of students in the technical theatre department centre around manual labour. Ethnographic analysis demonstrates that “tech” constitutes a locally enregistered persona, informed by tech students’ positioning as working‐class subjects through their bodily, sartorial, and technological practices. Tech students also produce higher and more rounded variants of LOT, and more velarized productions of /l/, than their non‐tech peers, and I suggest that articulatory setting is at play in the cohesive indexicality of these variants. I advocate for the continued exploration of co‐occurring sociolinguistic variables which treat the body as a broader stylistic context, and propose that studies of co‐occurring features focus on the ideological processes by which combinations of variables come to index thematic styles.

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体现“技术”：发音环境，语音变化和社会意义

本文研究了两种社交语音变量在一种样式中的同时发生-英语中的LOT元音和词首字母/ l / —来探讨发音环境之间的联系和文体实践。在旧金山湾区一所以艺术为重点的高中，技术剧院部门的学生的课程和社交活动以人工为中心。人种学分析表明，“技术”构成了本地注册的角色，这是通过技术学生通过其身体，服装和技术实践将其定位为工人阶级学科而得到的。与非技术类同龄人相比，技术类学生还可以生产出更多，更全面的LOT变体，以及/ l /的丝光化产品，我建议说清楚这些变体在衔接索引性方面的作用。我主张继续探索共同出现的社会语言变量，这些变量将身体视为更广泛的风格背景，