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AbstractThe term sociophonetics refers to the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics, and specifically to the use of modern phonetic methods in the quantitative analysis of language variation and change. Although its definition can be quite broad, including any sociolinguistic study involving sounds analysed impressionistically, it usually implies
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Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical issues in sociophonetics
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State of the art: current methodological innovations in sociophonetics
Innovation is a buzzword at many levels of society, business and science. We as researchers are constantly urged to focus on the new and the ground-breaking, and onmoving forward to new frontiers, enabling exploration of new knowledge in new combinations
Nicolai Pharao, Anne H Fabricius
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Maximizing accuracy of forced alignment for spontaneous child speech
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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Low-resource Accent Classification in Geographically-proximate Settings: A Forensic and Sociophonetics Perspective [PDF]
Accented speech recognition and accent classification are relatively under-explored research areas in speech technology. Recently, deep learning-based methods and Transformer-based pretrained models have achieved superb performances in both areas ...
Qingcheng Zeng +3 more
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Men Finally Got It! Rhotic Assibilation in Mexican Spanish in Chihuahua
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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The Sociophonetics of Dublin English
The Sociophonetics of Dublin English shows how social inequalities and language are connected by the stances speakers take in interaction. It is based on an instrumental phonetic analysis of recorded interviews and broadcasting data and a detailed ...
Marion Schulte
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The study interrogates what has hitherto been called ‘free variation’ in Akan (cf. Schachter and Fromkin (1968), Dolphyne (1988), and Abakah (2004)), i.e., the alternation of [r], [l] and [d] in intervocalic position (V_V) and the alternation of [r] and [
Bernard Boakye +2 more
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Phonétique, sociolinguistique, sociophonétique : histoires parallèles et croisements [PDF]
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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Sociolinguistic prompts in the 21st century: Uniting past approaches and current directions
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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