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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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The Segment Status of the Mandarin Glide: A Language Game Experiment [PDF]
Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2023 The acquisition of a phonological grammar requires the segmentation of an utterance into individual consonants and vowels as a first step, yet it is often taken as a given.
Fu, Boer
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Dative Microvariation in African Varieties of Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022 In this paper we compare dative ditransitive structures in nativized and nativizing urban varieties of Portuguese spoken in Angola, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe, using a corpus-based approach. It is shown that the expression
Inês Duarte +2 more
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Languages, 2022 This study investigates speaker based variation in the use of word order and intonation to mark narrow and wide focus in Urdu. The identification of focus type and position, as well as the prosodic phrasing of declarative sentences produced in the target
Farhat Jabeen
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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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Style-Shifting in Vlogging: An Acoustic Analysis of “YouTube Voice” [PDF]
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This article demonstrates evidence of context-related style-shifting on YouTube. This was achieved by comparing the vowels of vlogger Phil Lester in multiple contexts (a solo vlog, collaborative vlog, gaming video, and live video).
Sarah Lee
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Social networks and intraspeaker variation during periods of language change [PDF]
, 2008 Previous work has revealed general characteristics of language change at both the level of linguistic communities as well as individual speakers. What are the properties of language users such that we can account for these characteristics?
Celina Troutman +2 more
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Goin’ Home: The Role of Vowel Raising in Indexing an Ethnic Identity [PDF]
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 Vowel height can be seen as a feature indexing a particular ethnic identity or indicating a style shift between two such identities. This paper focuses on Bradford-born South Asian musician Zayn Malik, an interesting subject given his prominent status as
Suzey Ingold
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Cost-sensitive learning for emotion robust speaker recognition. [PDF]
ScientificWorldJournal, 2014 In the field of information security, voice is one of the most important parts in biometrics. Especially, with the development of voice communication through the Internet or telephone system, huge voice data resources are accessed. In speaker recognition, voiceprint can be applied as the unique password for the user to prove his/her identity.
Li D, Yang Y, Dai W.
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, 2020 Welcome to the first issue of Volume 6 of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Papers in Sociolinguistics. This issue includes three papers that continue the journal’s mission of showcasing excellence in undergraduate research in sociolinguistics.
Hall-Lew, Lauren
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