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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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Jonction syntaxique et formalité du contexte [PDF]
Multilinguales, 2013 Context is a continuously changing reality in a verbal exchange. In this article, an analysis is made of how intraspeaker variation functions as a contextualisation cue in situations marked by different degrees of formality, through a study of clause ...
Anne‑Marie Bezzina
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An Intraspeaker Variation Study of Scottish English /r/ Pharyngealisation
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
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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Seeking Systematicity in Variation: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations on the "Variety" Concept. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2018 One centennial discussion in linguistics concerns whether languages, or linguistic systems, are, essentially, homogeneous or rather show “structured heterogeneity.” In this contribution, the question is addressed whether and how sociolinguistically ...
Ghyselen AS, De Vogelaer G.
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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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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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Eliciting Big Data From Small, Young, or Non-standard Languages: 10 Experimental Challenges [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The aim of this work is to identify and analyze a set of challenges that are likely to be encountered when one embarks on fieldwork in linguistic communities that feature small, young, and/or non-standard languages with a goal to elicit big sets of rich ...
Evelina Leivada +2 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
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