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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 ...
Günther Laufer
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Sources of variation in the speech of African Americans: Perspectives from sociophonetics [PDF]
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2021 Demographic changes in cities like Washington, DC were due to the Great Migration, and such changes matter greatly for language variation in African American Language. Abstract African American Language (AAL) is one of the most researched varieties of American English, yet key aspects of its development and spread remain under‐theorized.
Charlie Farrington +2 more
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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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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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Maximizing accuracy of forced alignment for spontaneous child speech
Language Development Research, 2023 Sociophonetic study of large speech corpora generally requires the use of forced alignment - the automatic process of determining the start and end time of each speech sound within the recording - in order to facilitate large-scale automated extraction ...
Joshua Wilson Black +3 more
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Sociolinguistic prompts in the 21st century: Uniting past approaches and current directions
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 17, Issue 3, May/June 2023., 2023 Abstract As technology (particularly smartphone and computer technology) has advanced, sociolinguistic methodology has likewise adapted to include remote data collection. Remote methods range from approximating the traditional sociolinguistic interview via synchronous video conferencing to developing new methods for asynchronous self‐recording (Boyd et
Betsy Sneller, Adam Barnhardt
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Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 136-158, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Swearwords influence social evaluation of a speaker in a variety of ways depending on social context (Jay & Janschewitz (2008), The pragmatics of swearing. Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, 4(2), 267–288). Little attention has been paid to the role of linguistic variation in social perceptions of swearing, however ...
Matthew Hunt +3 more
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Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad
World Englishes, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 48-72, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Varieties of English in the Caribbean have been claimed to have characteristic pitch patterns. However, there is little empirical research on prosodic aspects of English in the region. This paper provides a comparative phonetic analysis of several pitch parameters (pitch level, range, dynamism, rate of change, variability in rate of change ...
Philipp Meer +4 more
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Using principal component analysis to explore co‐variation of vowels
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 17, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper presents a methodology for exploring systematic co‐variation of vowels using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). As a case study, we examine and build on Brand et al.'s (2021) study of systematic co‐variation amongst the monophthongs of New Zealand English (NZE) across speakers born over a 118‐year time period.
Joshua Wilson Black +3 more
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 5-6, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Sociolinguistic study of variation and change has a long‐standing bias towards speech communities in Western and especially Anglophone societies. We argue that our field requires a much wider scope for variation studies, which puts more emphasis on culturally contextualised social meaning in the full range of human societies.
Aria Adli, Gregory R. Guy
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