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 ...
James N Stanford
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Towards Methodological and Theoretical Synergies between Forensic Phonetics and Third Wave Sociophonetics [PDF]
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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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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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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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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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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Critical Multilingualism Studies, 2020 How regional variation shapes second language (L2) perception and manifests in the production of second language learners has received more and more attention from linguists recently.
Elena Schoonmaker-Gates
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Working-Class Heroes: Intraspeaker Variation in General Secretary Len McCluskey
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 We examine “Liverpool lenition” in the speech of Len McCluskey, a speaker of “Scouse”. Scouse is a variety of Liverpool English associated with the working-class persona of the “Liverpudlian”.
Aïsha Daw, Xueyan Zhou
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Goin’ Home: The Role of Vowel Raising in Indexing an Ethnic Identity
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 Vowel height can be seen as a feature indexing a particular ethnic identity or indicating a style shift between two such identities. This paper focuses on Bradford-born South Asian musician Zayn Malik, an interesting subject given his prominent status as
Suzey Ingold
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