Functionally Equivalent Variants in a Non-standard Variety and Their Implications for Universal Grammar: A Spontaneous Speech Corpus [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Findings from the field of experimental linguistics have shown that a native speaker may judge a variant that is part of her grammar as unacceptable, but still use it productively in spontaneous speech.
Evelina Leivada +4 more
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The maintenance of regional dialects: a matter of gender? Boys, but not girls, use local varieties in relation to their friends' nativeness and local identity. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2014 The linguistic diversity enduring beyond institutional pressures and social prejudices against nonstandard dialects questions the social forces influencing language maintenance across generations and how children contribute to this process.
Barbu S, Martin N, Chevrot JP.
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Intraspeaker Priming across the New Zealand English Short Front Vowel Shift [PDF]
Language and Speech, 2022 Dan Villarreal, Lynn Clark
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Age Vectors vs. Axes of Intraspeaker Variation in Vowel Formants Measured Automatically From Several English Speech Corpora [PDF]
To test the hypothesis that intraspeaker variation in vowel formants is related to the direction of diachronic change, we compare the direction of change in apparent time with the axis of intraspeaker variation in F1 and F2 for vowel phonemes in several\ud corpora of North American and Scottish English.\ud These vowels were measured automatically with ...
Mielke, Jeff +6 more
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Capturing the Intraspeaker Heterogeneity of Vocal Hyperfunction Using Spatiotemporal Indices of Relative Fundamental Frequency [PDF]
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing ResearchLaura E Toles +2 more
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Medium-shifting and intraspeaker variation in conversational interviews
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 ...
Bleaman, Isaac L +2 more
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Requests in Indian and Sri Lankan English
World Englishes, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 523-543, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Despite notable exceptions, research on requests in world Englishes has so far largely involved role plays, questionnaires and discourse completion tasks. Moreover, research on requests in South Asian varieties of English is rather scarce. Therefore, the present study employs a multifactorial approach towards requests in Indian and Sri Lankan ...
Julia Degenhardt
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Lifespans and Styles, 2016 It is my pleasure to present the second issue of the second volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation. This issue includes six papers from nine authors. The first three papers are by undergraduate students in Dr
Lauren Hall-Lew
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Structured variation in child heritage speakers' grammars
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating insights from analyses of structured variation, which is defined as the interchange of linguistic forms where the choice to use one form over the other is probabilistically conditioned by linguistic and social factors.
Naomi Shin
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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 694-725, Winter 2022., 2022 Graphical abstract: Abstract This data‐driven study framed in the interactionist approach investigates the influence of social graph topology and peer interaction dynamics among foreign exchange students enrolled in an intensive German language course on second language acquisition (SLA) outcomes.
MICHAŁ B. PARADOWSKI +3 more
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