Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 45-70, June 2024.Abstract Sociolinguistic research has demonstrated that ‘urban contact dialects’ tend to diffuse beyond the speech communities in which they first emerge. However, no research has attempted to explore the distribution of these varieties across an entire nation nor isolate the social mechanisms that propel their spread. In this paper, we use a corpus of
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“Whey Aye My Good Sir”: Has Cheryl Fernandez-Versini’s Accent Moved from Tyneside English to RP?
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This article analyses the speech of Cheryl Fernandez-Versini (nee Tweedy, formerly Cole), henceforth “Cheryl” , who experienced rapid geographical and socioeconomic mobility between 2002 and 2014.
Victoria Wallace
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Bengali and Dutch: A Phonological Contrastive Analysis of the front Monophthongs
Research in LanguageThis paper investigates the monophthongs of Bengali and Dutch, analyzing the similarities and differences in the phonetic characteristics between the two languages, particularly focusing on front monophthongs.
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Ladz in the Hood: Features of Pasifika English in Drill Rappers from Western Sydney
LanguagesDespite well-established Pasifika communities in Australia, there has been no examination of the English spoken by members of these communities in the sociolinguistic literature.
Joshua Penney, Anita Szakay
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Formant frequency estimations of whispered speech in Chinese
Archives of Acoustics, 2009 Formant frequencies are important cues for characterizing whispered speech. However, it is difficult to exactly estimate its formant by the conventional linear prediction coding algorithm.
Gang LV, Heming ZHAO
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PROCESSES OF ASSIMILATION INVOLVING DENTAL STOP CONSOANTS /t, d/ IN BRASILIAN PORTUGUESE
Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2015 The major aim of this paper is to present, based on quantitative sociolinguistics, a analyse of the process of progressive assimilation that involve the dental stop consonants.
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Human voice pitch measures are robust across a variety of speech recordings: methodological and theoretical implications. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2021 Pisanski K +2 more
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Segmental and suprasegmental encoding of speaker confidence in Wuxi dialect vowels. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Ji Y, Hu Y, Jiang X.
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PHONOLOGY OF THE DIALECT OF SMIŠLJAK IN EAST GORSKI KOTAR
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2016 The paper discusses the phonological system of Smišljak on the basis of the authors field work. According to the previous studies, dialect of Smišljak is a part of the eastern subdialect of kajkavian Gorski kotar dialect and it has been depict for this ...
Marina Marinković, Sanja Zubčić
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Mismatch Negativity Is Not Always Modulated by Lexicality. [PDF]
Front Hum Neurosci, 2020 Politzer-Ahles S, Im S.
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