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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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Men Finally Got It! Rhotic Assibilation in Mexican Spanish in Chihuahua
Languages, 2020 Rhotic assibilation is a common sociolinguistic variable observed in different Spanish speaking countries such as Argentina, Ecuador, and México. Previous studies reported that rhotic assibilation alternates with the flap and/or with the trill.
Natalia Mazzaro +1 more
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Anglophonia, 2022 The linguistic variety spoken in the south of the United States (Southern American English, hereafter SAE), is a well-documented field of investigation (Farington et al., 2018; Feagin, 2018; Fridland, 2003, 2008; Labov et al., 2006; Nunnally & Bailey ...
Marc-Philippe Brunet
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Auditory and Acoustic Evidence for Palatalization of the Nasal Consonant in Cairene Arabic
Languages, 2021 This paper introduces the palatalized nasal [nʲ] as an allophonic realization of coronal /n/ in Cairene Arabic. The palatalized variants of the phonemes previously described in acoustic and sociolinguistic terms include the alveolar stops [t, d] and ...
Navdeep Sokhey
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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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Phonétique, sociolinguistique, sociophonétique : histoires parallèles et croisements [PDF]
, 2015 International audienceIs it possible to provide a clear and unambiguous definition for the expanding field of sociophonetics ? Starting from this question, this article introduces the respective contributions of phonetics and sociolinguistics and the ...
Candea, Maria, Trimaille, Cyril
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The Fandom Pairing Name: Blends and the Phonology-Orthography Interface
Names, 2012 In English, blending is a highly predictable and productive naming process. However, no systematic morphological template for blends has yet been proposed. Using data from Internet fandom pairing names (FPNs), I describe the phonological and orthographic
Cara M DiGirolamo
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On how Happy Polish Advanced EFL Learners Are with Happy-Tensing [PDF]
, 2015 This paper aims at investigating the production of happY vowel by advanced Polish learners of English. Although happY tensing has become a regular feature of mainstream RP, it is not explicitly taught at English philologies in Poland.
Olender, Adam, Sypiańska, Jolanta
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