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Analyzing linguistic variation using discursive worlds
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 40-63, September 2024.Abstract Researchers in variationist sociolinguistics have long sought to develop social measures that are more sophisticated than demographic categories such as age, gender, and social class, while still being useful for quantitative analysis. This paper presents one such new measure: discursive worlds.
Heather Burnett +2 more
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Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This paper contributes to research on the social meaning of creaky voice in American English by offering an intraspeaker analysis of the speech of Lady Gaga, an American pop star.
Lewis Esposito
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Phonetic cues to depression: A sociolinguistic perspective
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 5, September/October 2024.Abstract Phonetic data are used in several ways outside of the core field of phonetics. This paper offers the perspective of one such field, sociophonetics, towards another, the study of acoustic cues to clinical depression. While sociophonetics is interested in how, when, and why phonetic variables cue information about the world, the study of ...
Lauren Hall‐Lew
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Hungarian vowel quantity neutralisation as a potential social marker [PDF]
, 2010 Hungarian is a language with distinctive vowel quantity, but it seems that quantity discrimination in acoustic and perceptual terms is less robust for high vowels than for low ones. In this paper, we argue that the unstable behaviour of high vowels could
Abercrombie D. +14 more
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Lifespans and Styles, 2016 When examining the COT /CAUGHT merger in central Pennsylvania, Labov (1994) uncovered a stylistic phenomenon, known as the “ Bill Peters Effect” , whereby speakers heavily differentiate between /ɑ/ and /ɔː/ in spontaneous speech, but converge the two ...
Joel Merry
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Trets acústics de les vocals del català central [PDF]
, 2017 Presentem una proposta d'investigació basada en l'anàlisi acústica de les vocals i de la seva combinació en català central en parla espontània. Per portar-la a terme, hem utilitzat el Corpus oral de parla espontània (Font-Rotchés, 2006 i Rius-Escudé, en ...
Rius, Agnès
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Lifespans and Styles, 2017 It is my pleasure to present the first issue of the third volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation . This issue includes five papers on topics about within-speaker variation that are largely under-researched in
Lauren Hall-Lew
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El Rotacisme de /d/ intervocàlica en alguerès. Interpretació i anàlisi quantitativa de la variació [PDF]
, 2013 Aquest treball descriu i analitza quantitativament la variació en el fenomen del rotacisme de /d/ intervocàlica en alguerès, a fi de determinar amb exactitud i validesa estadístiques els factors socials i lingüístics que determinen l'aparició de les ...
Cabrera i Callís, Maria
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Human vocal tract growth: A longitudinal study of the development of various anatomical structures [PDF]
, 2015 International audienceThe growth of the head and neck and its components, including that of the vocal tract, is not homothetic but appears rather as an anamorphosis. The growth of various structures presents a phenomenon of heterochrony.
Barbier, Guillaume +3 more
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Accent attribution in speakers with Foreign Accent Syndrome [PDF]
, 2013 Purpose: The main aim of this experiment was to establish the extent to which the impression of foreignness in speakers with Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is in any way comparable to the impression of foreignness in speakers with a real foreign accent.
De Pauw, G. +5 more
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