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The Effects of Forensically Relevant Face Coverings on the Acoustic Properties of Fricatives
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This forensically motivated study investigates the effects of a motorcycle helmet, balaclava, and plastic mask on the acoustics of three English non-sibilant fricatives, /f/, /θ/, and /v/ in two individuals. It examines variation within the individual as
Julie Saigusa
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Is a Day out of Hawick a Day Wasted? A Study of Bidialectalism in Young Hawick Females
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This study investigates young female speakers from Hawick in southern Scotland. The main focus is to identify whether bidialectal-like shifts occur in the young female speakers’ use of local dialect features, depending on the dialect of their ...
Alice Rawsthorne
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Journal of Educational Measurement, Volume 63, Issue 1, Spring 2026.Abstract This article addresses bias in Spoken Language Systems (SLS) that involve both Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and reports experiments to improve the performance of SLS for automated language and literacy‐related assessments with students who are under served in the U.S. educational system.
Alison L. Bailey +5 more
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Aspects of Linguistic Variation [PDF]
, 2018 This volume brings together papers on linguistic variation. It takes a broad perspective, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation, and examines phenomena ranging from negation and TAM over ...
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‘Ow Cockney is Beckham Twenty Years On? An Investigation into H-dropping and T-glottaling
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This research paper examines how language change can occur across the lifespan through the linguistic analysis of East Londoner, and world renowned football player, David Beckham.
Sofia Dahou, Jasmine Hamlin
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Style or accent?: Gendered perceptions of English among young Bahrainis
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 525-539, December 2025.Abstract Although both are recognized as different speech types, an accent is generally understood as unintentional, whereas style is performative. This study argues that with increasing rates of contact in globalization between people, resources, and cultures, ‘accent’ can be reconceptualized as closely intersected with ‘style’ in Expanding Circle ...
Wafa Al‐Alawi
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Reflexivity in Meadow Mari: Binding and Agree [PDF]
, 2017 According to the Canonical Binding Theory (Chomsky 1981), anaphors must be bound in their local domain and pronominals must be free. The discovery of “long-distance anaphors” (e.g.
Volkova, Anna, ILS Variation
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 493-517, December 2024.Abstract My paper asks which linguistic features become enregistered to a politician's image, and how this process occurs. I examine glide insertion in the speech of former Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă and parodies of her. As parody requires exaggeration of salient features in order to be legible, I use it to investigate what is heard as ...
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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Does Geographic Relocation Induce the Loss of Features from a Single Speaker’s Native Dialect?
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Over the past few years, academics such as Sankoff and Blondeau (2007) and Harrington (2006) have exhibited a marked interest in dialect variation and language change across the lifespan.
Hollie Barker
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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 108, Issue 2, Page 385-411, Summer 2024.Abstract The present study takes a variationist perspective to explore the varietal repertoires of adult learners of German as a second language (L2), that is, their variable use of standard German, Austro‐Bavarian dialect, and mixture varieties.
Mason A. Wirtz +3 more
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