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An Intraspeaker Variation Study of Scottish English /r/ Pharyngealisation [PDF]
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Pharyngealisation— the retraction of the tongue towards the pharynx— of prepausal and preconsonantal /r/ has been recognised as an emergent strategy of derhoticisation in Scotland’s Central Belt (Stuart-Smith 2007).
Ruaridh Purse, Euan McGill
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Working-Class Heroes: Intraspeaker Variation in General Secretary Len McCluskey [PDF]
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 We examine “Liverpool lenition” in the speech of Len McCluskey, a speaker of “Scouse”. Scouse is a variety of Liverpool English associated with the working-class persona of the “Liverpudlian”.
Aïsha Daw, Xueyan Zhou
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Do People Tweet Like They Speak? A Study of Intraspeaker Variation
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This study investigates young female speakers from Scotland to determine to what extent they use Scots dialect features in their written tweets and spoken language. It analyses the production of variation in phonology, morphosyntax, and lexis.
Naomi Crawford
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Lifespans and Styles, 2015 This study examines the stylistic use of ‘creaky voice’ in a single speaker: the American actress Scarlett Johansson. Recently, there has been a marked increase in both media and academic interest in creaky voice, with work by Yuasa (2010) and Wolk et al.
Francesca Shaw, Victoria Crocker
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Medium-shifting and intraspeaker variation in conversational interviews [PDF]
Language Variation and Change, 2022 AbstractWe investigate the impact of medium of communication (in-person versus video) on intraspeaker variation in conversation—a process we refer to asmedium-shifting. To quantify the effects of medium-shifting and understand its possible motivations, we analyze three variables that show intraspeaker effects of “clear” or “careful” speech ...
Isaac L. Bleaman +2 more
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Intraspeaker variation in aerodynamic and acoustic parameters of voice production across repeated recordings [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990 In a previous study of aerodynamic and acoustic measurements of voice production for groups of female and male speakers to establish normative data, interspeaker variation was often found to be highly correlated with SPL [Holmberg et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 84, 511–529 (1988)].
Eva B. Holmberg +3 more
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Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for vowel formants in North American and Scottish English [PDF]
, 2018 We examine vowel formant variation in several natural speech corpora of North American and United Kingdom English. Labov (1994) has suggested that a speaker’s tokens of a particular vowel will be aligned along an axis coinciding with the direction that vowel is shifting diachronically in a given community. We compare the direction of change in apparent
Erik R. Thomas +8 more
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Lifespans and Styles, 2017 Welcome to the second issue of the third volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation. We are happy to feature five papers that continue the journal’s mission of highlighting excellence in undergraduate research ...
Lauren Hall-Lew
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Intraspeaker Priming across the New Zealand English Short Front Vowel Shift. [PDF]
Lang Speech, 2022 A growing body of research in psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics shows that we have a strong tendency to repeat linguistic material that we have recently produced, seen, or heard.
Villarreal D, Clark L.
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Pulling Out All the Stops: Referee Design and Phonetic Correlates of Gay Men’s English [PDF]
Lifespans and Styles, 2015 Studies of intraspeaker variation and the linguistic indexing of sexual identity have formed an important part of recent research in variationist sociolinguistics.
Victoria Dickson, Yorath Turner
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