Advances in Completely Automated Vowel Analysis for Sociophonetics: Using End-to-End Speech Recognition Systems With DARLA [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021 In recent decades, computational approaches to sociophonetic vowel analysis have been steadily increasing, and sociolinguists now frequently use semi-automated systems for phonetic alignment and vowel formant extraction, including FAVE (Forced Alignment ...
Rolando Coto-Solano +2 more
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Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2022 We investigate whether regionally-associated primes can affect speech perception in two lexical decision tasks in which New Zealand listeners were exposed to an Australian prime (a kangaroo), a New Zealand prime (a kiwi), and/or a control animal (a horse)
Gia Hurring +5 more
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L1 variation and L2 acquisition: L1 German /eː/-/ɛː/ overlap and its effect on the acquisition of L2 English /ɛ/-/æ/ [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 A person’s first language (L1) affects the way they acquire speech in a second language (L2). However, we know relatively little about the role different varieties of the L1 play in the acquisition of L2 speech. This study focuses on German (L1) learners
Marcel Schlechtweg +3 more
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The Social Meaning of Contextualized Sibilant Alternations in Berlin German [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In Berlin, the pronunciation of /ç/ as [ɕ] is associated with the multi-ethnic youth variety (Kiezdeutsch). This alternation is also known to be produced by French learners of German.
Melanie Weirich +2 more
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The pitfalls of near-mergers: A sociophonetic approach to near-demergers in the Malaga /θ/ vs /s/ split [PDF]
Open Linguistics, 2023 The near-merger hypothesis has served to explain many situations where other explanations have not sufficed, including mainly those where apparently completed mergers have been reversed.
Molina García Álvaro
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Redefining Sociophonetic Competence: Mapping COG Differences in Phrase-Final Fricative Epithesis in L1 and L2 Speakers of French [PDF]
Languages, 2020 This article presents a study of measures of center of gravity (COG) in phrase-final fricative epithesis (PFFE) produced by L1 and L2 speakers of Continental French (CF).
Amanda Dalola, Keiko Bridwell
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Social Inference May Guide Early Lexical Learning [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 We incorporate social reasoning about groups of informants into a model of word learning, and show that the model accounts for infant looking behavior in tasks of both word learning and recognition.
Alayo Tripp +3 more
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Feature attention and accent recognition: human listeners’ responses to five Northern English accents [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study investigates how human listeners perceive and locate Northern English accents, with a focus on the linguistic features that attract attention during accent recognition.
Chris Montgomery +2 more
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Modern Languages Open, 2023 This article presents an overview of third wave sociophonetics and forensic phonetics, aiming to point out areas of methodological and conceptual crossover, as well as discussing the prospects for applying third wave sociophonetic methods and concepts to
Lois Fairclough
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