Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This paper investigates the attachment of overt and covert prestige to different varieties of Scottish Standard English (SSE), namely, Scots-SSE and Anglo-SSE. SSE itself encompasses wide linguistic variation and is often described as an accent continuum:
Abigail Salvesen
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“My Vocal Cords are Made of Tweed”: Style-Shifting as Speaker Design
Lifespans and Styles, 2015 Intraspeaker variation is evaluated in terms of speaker design in a number of studies (Coupland 1985, Schilling-Estes 1998, Podesva 2008). This study explores possible motives for variation from a speaker design perspective through the analysis of three ...
Melissa Geere +2 more
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Is a Day out of Hawick a Day Wasted? A Study of Bidialectalism in Young Hawick Females
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This study investigates young female speakers from Hawick in southern Scotland. The main focus is to identify whether bidialectal-like shifts occur in the young female speakers’ use of local dialect features, depending on the dialect of their ...
Alice Rawsthorne
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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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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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Rural Sociophonetics. Dialectology meets usage-based theory in the village of Antona (Massa, Italy) [PDF]
, 2021 Ideally, sociophonetics deals with controlled experimental settings and well-documented languages. This work strives to bring this discipline into the alleys and stone walls of Antona, a small Italian village in the Tuscan Apuan Alps.
Piccardi, Duccio
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Variation and change over time in British choral singing (1925–2019)
Laboratory PhonologyThe front vowels of Received Pronunciation lowered in quality over the twentieth century (Wells, 1982b; Fabricius, 2007; Bjelaković, 2017). Connections between choral singing and Southern Standard British English (SSBE) have been made in musicological ...
Edward Marshall +3 more
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The sociophonetics of rhotic variation in Sicilian dialects and Sicilian Italian: corpus, methodology and first results [PDF]
, 2016 SoPhISM (The SocioPhonetics of verbal Interaction: Sicilian Multimodal corpus) is an acoustic and articulatory sociophonetic corpus focused on whithin-speaker variation as a function of stylistic/communicative factors. The corpus is particularly intended
RICCI, Irene +2 more
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An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish
Estudios de Fonética ExperimentalThis study focuses on the acoustic characteristics of two fricative variants of /r/ in the highlands of Bolivia: a dominant postalveolar retroflex variant with or without initial linguo-palatal contact, [r̝, ʐ], present alongside a fronted variant [z ...
Philippe Boula de Mareüil +2 more
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The Sociophonetics and Lyrical Codemixing of Hot Latin Songs: a Comparison of the Spontaneous Speech and the Artistic Performance Speech of the Top Two Artists in the Global Market, Bad Bunny and J Balvin [PDF]
, 2022 Electronic Thesis or DissertationThis mixed-methods study looks in detail at the artistic performance of identity via the sociophonetics of coda /s/ realizations and the Spanish-English codemixing of the two top Latin music artists in the global market ...
Hayes, Elizabeth Naranjo
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