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Perceptual Dialectology in Northern England: Accent Recognition, Geographical Proximity and Cultural Prominence

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2016
Work in perceptual dialectology has argued that listeners’ successful identification of accent areas is facilitated by their geographical proximity to a particular region.
Ksenia Gnevsheva, Kevin Watson
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Ethnicity and Perceptual Dialectology

American Speech, 2019
Ethnicity of respondents has not been considered in the cognitive mapping of regional dialects, even though it has been shown to influence spatial perception in other social science fields. In this article, the authors draw on the findings of a cognitive mapping study, based on similar studies by Dennis Preston, that compared the behavior of two ...
Gabriela G. Alfaraz, Alexander Mason
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Crossing the line: Effect of border representation in perceptual dialectology

Journal of Linguistic Geography, 2022
AbstractThis study investigates the effect of differing representations of state boundaries on the draw-a-map task in perceptual dialectology in a region of the United States. The typical draw-a-map survey instrument represents state borders with solid lines. Would respondents react differently to maps with dashed-line state borders? More specifically,
Erica J. Benson, Anneli Williams
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2. Developing Methods in Perceptual Dialectology

2016
Jennifer Cramer, Chris Montgomery
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Perceptual Dialectology in the 21st Century

Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen, 2010
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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-
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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
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Perceptual Dialectology

2016
Abstract This chapter introduces the topic of Perceptual Dialectology (PD), an area of sociolinguistics concerned with how nonlinguists understand dialectal variation. The chapter provides a brief history of the field and explores the ways in which the perceptions and language attitudes of nonlinguists have typically been elicited in ...
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The Online Map-Based Accent-Recognition Task: A New Pathway for Perceptual Dialectology

Journal of Linguistic Geography
We present and evaluate the map-based accent-recognition task, in which listeners place speech fragments of regionally accented Netherlandic Standard Dutch on a map in a browser-based experiment.
Anne-France Pinget
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Mapping Languages From Inside: Notes on Perceptual Dialectology

Social and Cultural Geography, 2001
Language maps can represent many aspects of the linguistic situation in a certain territory. They usually draw particular views of the language setting as seen from outside, i.e. by linguists or scholars in general. However, maps can also be used to show the geographical distribution of the perception of language variation from the point of view of the
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