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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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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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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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Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This paper contributes to research on the social meaning of creaky voice in American English by offering an intraspeaker analysis of the speech of Lady Gaga, an American pop star.
Lewis Esposito
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Spontaneous Phonetic Imitation Across Regional Dialects [PDF]
, 2012 Speakers subconsciously alter their pronunciation towards that of their conversation partner through a process called spontaneous phonetic imitation. Previous research has shown that this imitation may not be a completely automatic process.
Dossey, Ellen E.
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Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 1, January 2024.Abstract During face‐to‐face conversation, transitions between speaker turns are incredibly fast. These fast turn exchanges seem to involve next speakers predicting upcoming semantic information, such that next turn planning can begin before a current turn is complete.
Marlijn ter Bekke +2 more
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Code-Switching as Strategically Employed in Political Discourse
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 There is extensive scholarship in the field of sociolinguistics on mediated political discourse as strategically employed to gain support in the run-up to and during elections.
Yova Kementchedjhieva
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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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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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The influence of the palate shape on articulatory token-to-token variability [PDF]
, 2005 Articulatory token-to-token variability not only depends on linguistic aspects like the phoneme inventory of a given language but also on speaker specific morphological and motor constraints. As has been noted previously (Perkell (1997), Mooshammer et al.
Brunner, Jana +2 more
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