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Listener Factors in Accent Recognition: A Perceptual-dialectology Study of Frisian

open access: yesPenn Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL)
We present a perceptual-dialectological study of regional variation in Frisian, a minority language spoken in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. There is a moderate body of work on Frisian dialectology, but no known insight about how variation in Frisian is perceived and used by language users.
Voeten, Cesko   +4 more
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How Symmetrical are English Vowels?

open access: yes, 2010
Honeybone, Patrick
core  

Mental maps and perceptual dialectology

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2021
Abstract Perceptual dialectology is the study of the thoughts, beliefs and attitudes that nonlinguists have about their dialect landscapes. The field foregrounds these perceptions which have been historically presumed to be of only peripheral significance in linguistic research.
Jennifer Cramer
exaly   +2 more sources

The effect of proximity in perceptual dialectology

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2012
This article examines the effect of proximity on perceptual dialectological data gathered in Northern Great Britain. It underlines the key effect that proximity has on respondent mental maps of language variation, and demonstrates this by discussing area recognition levels and map‐based data.
Chris Montgomery
exaly   +2 more sources

Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology

open access: yes, 1999
Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs.
Long, Daniel   +1 more
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Perceptual dialectology in second language learners of German

System, 2014
Abstract The goal of this research is to investigate how classroom second language learners of German living in Western Canada perceive language variation in terms of dialects of German. A three-part linguistic experiment was carried out over the course of one semester with twenty university students of German, most of whom were native speakers of ...
Mary Grantham O’Brien
exaly   +2 more sources

Results II: Perceptual Dialectology

2021
This chapter lays out the perceptual dialectology aspect of the analysis, thus discussing all overt language related perceptions interviewees voiced. Particularly, the draw-a-map task data will be discussed and contextualized with qualitative interview data which provides a more thorough insight into respondents’ perceptions and attitudes than the draw-
exaly   +2 more sources

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