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Intra- and Interspeaker Repetitiveness in Locative Variation

, 2021
A long research line in quantitative sociolinguistics has been aimed at understanding how persistence, the tendency for people to repeat a linguistic variant they have just used, influences language variation and change.
Tamminga, Meredith, Li, Aini
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Investigating Linguistic Prestige in Scotland: An Acoustic Study of Accommodation between Speakers of Two Varieties of Scottish Standard English

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
This paper investigates the attachment of overt and covert prestige to different varieties of Scottish Standard English (SSE), namely, Scots-SSE and Anglo-SSE. SSE itself encompasses wide linguistic variation and is often described as an accent continuum:
Abigail Salvesen
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Black Country English in the Spotlight: A Stylistic Analysis of Variable Contrast between Phonemes in an Urban Regiolect of British English

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
When examining the COT /CAUGHT merger in central Pennsylvania, Labov (1994) uncovered a stylistic phenomenon, known as the “ Bill Peters Effect” , whereby speakers heavily differentiate between /ɑ/ and /ɔː/  in spontaneous speech, but converge the two ...
Joel Merry
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Supernanny: An Intraspeaker Study of Addressee Effects in the Speech of Jo Frost

Lifespans and Styles, 2017
Limited research exists evaluating the extent to which intraspeaker style-shifting is conditioned by addressee age and addressee nationality. The current study investigated Supernanny Jo Frost’s realisations of (t) as glottal or non-glottal towards ...
Chloe Blackwood
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Jane Lynch and /s/: The Effect of Addressee Sexuality on Fricative Realization

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
Although there has been a sizeable amount of work on the speech of gay men (e.g., Podesva 2007), there has been little to no research on gay or bisexual women, whether interspeaker or intraspeaker.
Julie Saigusa
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Variation individuelle de la coarticulation en fonction de la frontière prosodique

, 2022
International audienceThis study investigates how inter and intraspeaker variations in the prosodic phrasing affect vowelto-vowel coarticulation in five speakers.
Daria D'Alessandro, d'Alessandro, Daria, Yildiz, Alice, Fougeron, Cécile, Alice Yildiz, Cécile Fougeron   +5 more
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Style-Shifting in Vlogging: An Acoustic Analysis of “YouTube Voice”

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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The Influence of Aspects of Social Identity on the Development of L2 Phonology

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
Over time, second language (L2) speech production changes as the learner gains more experience with the language. Factors such as interaction with native speakers of the learner’s  L2 are known to play an important role.
Jenia Yudytska
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Talkin’ Black and Sounding Gay: An Examination of the Construction of a Multiplex Identity via Intraspeaker Variation

, 2020
Gay African-American men hold membership in at least three groups – Gay, Black, and Male – that are grounded in ideologies and which provide linguistic resources that are complex and potentially conflicting.
Cornelius, Brianna R.
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The Young and the Old: (t) Release in Elderspeak

Lifespans and Styles, 2017
Elderspeak refers to a speech style used when talking to the elderly. The aim of this study was to find out whether a higher rate of standard phonetic variants of phonemes is a feature of elderspeak.
James Michaelov
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