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Language Perceptions of New Mexico: A Focus on the NM Borderland

Languages
New Mexico is located along the U.S.–Mexico border, and as such, Spanish, English, and language mixing form an integral part of the New Mexican identity.
Kathryn P. Bove
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Folk perceptions of variation among the Chabacano creoles

Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2014
This study provides the first account of the perceptual dialectology of the Chabacano creoles, focusing on the three varieties spoken in Cavite City, Ternate, and Zamboanga, Philippines.
Marivic Lesho, Eeva Sippola
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Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 194-209, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Sociophonetic perception is often studied using versions of the matched guise technique (MGT). Linguists using this technique appear united in the methodological assumptions that participants believe the manipulation and that this belief influences perception below the level of introspective awareness.
Kyler Laycock, Kevin B. McGowan
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Perceptual Dialectology; Wahrnehmungsdialektologie

, 2017
Audio recordings of interactions where mental maps of various dialects of (spoken) German were elicited from adult subjects belonging to three age groups and various geographical regions within the German-speaking area.
Hundt, Markus
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Factors of the Mental Map of Dialects: Using vs. Non­using a Dialect

Respectus Philologicus, 2016
The aim of the article is to analyse the mental maps of the Western Upper Lithuania youth residing in Šiauliai region and evaluate the links between the accuracy of the mental maps and the ability to use a dialect.
Erika Merkytė-Švarcienė
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Towards a model of world Englishes and multilingual variation

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 12-25, March-June 2025.
Abstract Drawing on research on multilingualism in South Africa and India, this paper attempts to integrate world Englishes studies and variationist sociolinguistics; in other words, to fill in a missing dialogue between Braj Kachru and William Labov.
Rajend Mesthrie
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Perception of dialect origin in media language: Is the standard language in use a supradialectal idiom? [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
Based on the assumption that the standard language in use, including prosodic features, is a distinct supradialectal idiom that lacks regionally distinctive features and can be acquired by speakers originating from dialect regions that are structurally ...
Čopa Miljana B., Miloradović Sofija R.
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Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 74-92, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Discussions of sociolinguistic awareness are often about how patterns observed in one practice (often linguistic production) appear in others (often person perception or metalinguistic commentary). Models like Labov's indicator/marker/stereotype trichotomy force this complexity into a single dimension, due to presupposing a conscious ...
Kathryn Campbell‐Kibler
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Crossing the threshold: The sociolinguistic North/South divide in the US

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Many linguistic studies describe the diatopic variation of English in the US in a similar fashion, insofar as they almost consistently identify a specific dialect area in the Southern states.
Marc-Philippe Brunet
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"in dem moment wo ich es dann erkenne dann ist es auch gleich wieder weg" – Salienzeffekte in der Sprachperzeption

Linguistik Online, 2014
In context of the first study on folk linguistic concepts in the German language area carried out by the Kiel DFG research project "perceptual dialectology", this article looks at how salient features could be surveyed and categorized by a stimulus ...
Christina Ada Anders, Nicole Palliwoda, Saskia Schröder   +2 more
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