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Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 194-209, June 2025.ABSTRACT Sociophonetic perception is often studied using versions of the matched guise technique (MGT). Linguists using this technique appear united in the methodological assumptions that participants believe the manipulation and that this belief influences perception below the level of introspective awareness.
Kyler Laycock, Kevin B. McGowan
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Current issues of cognitive linguistic studies of Serbian [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2017 The paper discusses the results of research by Serbian scholars into the field of cognitive linguistics over the past ten years. Special emphasis is laid on the cognitive linguistic studies of grammar, both in Serbian proper and from the ...
Popović Ljudmila V.
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Interrogating the Egypto-Sudanic Arabic Connection
Languages, 2021 The Arabic dialectology literature repeatedly asserts the existence of a macro-level classificatory relationship binding the Arabic speech varieties of the combined Egypto-Sudanic area.
Thomas A. Leddy-Cecere
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Towards a model of world Englishes and multilingual variation
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 12-25, March-June 2025.Abstract Drawing on research on multilingualism in South Africa and India, this paper attempts to integrate world Englishes studies and variationist sociolinguistics; in other words, to fill in a missing dialogue between Braj Kachru and William Labov.
Rajend Mesthrie
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Review: Gender shifts in the history of English. Anne Curzan.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.pp. 223 + xii. [PDF]
, 2007 Herbert Schendl (2001:9) defines ‘the study of ongoing changes in a language’ as one of the fundamental goals of historical linguistics. Curzan’s book, which examines the historical development of the English gender system, is a work noteworthy not ...
Kádár, Daniel Z.
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An interview on linguistic variation with... Paola Benincà [PDF]
, 2016 This is an interview to Paola ...
Benincà, Paola
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Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 74-92, February 2025.ABSTRACT Discussions of sociolinguistic awareness are often about how patterns observed in one practice (often linguistic production) appear in others (often person perception or metalinguistic commentary). Models like Labov's indicator/marker/stereotype trichotomy force this complexity into a single dimension, due to presupposing a conscious ...
Kathryn Campbell‐Kibler
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Scrunch, growze, or chobble?: investigating regional variation in sound symbolism in the Survey of English Dialects [PDF]
, 2012 This paper draws on data extracted from Upton et al.’s (1994) Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar in investigating the regional distribution across England of sound symbolic phonesthemes, that is, word-initial consonant clusters which ...
Wright, D
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Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey [PDF]
, 2016 Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language.
de Jong, Franciska +3 more
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Tonal Phonotactics in Southern Min
Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 431-455, December 2024.Abstract This paper is the first to explore tonal phonotactics in the world's natural languages. Zhangzhou Southern Min is theoretically assumed to have 7320 possible syllables but more than 71% of them are not empirically attested. Each lexical tone is logically possible to generate 915 syllables; however, the attested number only ranges from 98 ...
Yishan Huang
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