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Pulling Out All the Stops: Referee Design and Phonetic Correlates of Gay Men’s English
Lifespans and Styles, 2015 Studies of intraspeaker variation and the linguistic indexing of sexual identity have formed an important part of recent research in variationist sociolinguistics.
Victoria Dickson, Yorath Turner
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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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Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, 2019 : The aim of this article is to examine the social meaning of /s/- and /t/-variation for Copenhagen girls in two different registers. The examined features consist of [s] and [tˢ], which are considered the standard variants, and [s+] and [tʲ] which carry
Aleksandra Culap Lillelund-Holst +2 more
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Low-resource Accent Classification in Geographically-proximate Settings: A Forensic and Sociophonetics Perspective [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 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. However, most accent classification tasks focused on classifying different kinds of English accents and ...
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The interpretation of prosodic variability in the context of accompanying sociophonetic cues
Laboratory Phonology, 2017 Production data have shown that one of the features distinguishing uptalk rises from question rises in New Zealand English (NZE) is the alignment point of the rise start, which is earlier in question utterances realized by younger speakers.
Paul Warren
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Language Learning, Volume 70, Issue 3, Page 848-885, September 2020., 2020 Abstract In this study, we investigated the learning of indexical features by English‐speaking adults using a novel experimental paradigm. In a conceptual replication of Rácz, Hay, and Pierrehumbert (2017), participants learned an allomorphy pattern cued by a given social context.
Péter Rácz +2 more
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Does Geographic Relocation Induce the Loss of Features from a Single Speaker’s Native Dialect?
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Over the past few years, academics such as Sankoff and Blondeau (2007) and Harrington (2006) have exhibited a marked interest in dialect variation and language change across the lifespan.
Hollie Barker
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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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Supernanny: An Intraspeaker Study of Addressee Effects in the Speech of Jo Frost
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 Limited research exists evaluating the extent to which intraspeaker style-shifting is conditioned by addressee age and addressee nationality. The current study investigated Supernanny Jo Frost’s realisations of (t) as glottal or non-glottal towards ...
Chloe Blackwood
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Jane Lynch and /s/: The Effect of Addressee Sexuality on Fricative Realization
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Although there has been a sizeable amount of work on the speech of gay men (e.g., Podesva 2007), there has been little to no research on gay or bisexual women, whether interspeaker or intraspeaker.
Julie Saigusa
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