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Sociophonetics and laterals

open access: yes, 2023
Laterals are the L-like sounds of the world’s languages, notable for displaying both consonant- like and vowel-like properties. From the Latin `lateralis' (literally ‘belonging to the side’), laterals have closure at a point in the center of the oral ...
Turton, Danielle
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Pulling Out All the Stops: Referee Design and Phonetic Correlates of Gay Men’s English

open access: yesLifespans 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
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating Linguistic Prestige in Scotland: An Acoustic Study of Accommodation between Speakers of Two Varieties of Scottish Standard English

open access: yesLifespans 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

open access: yesLifespans 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

open access: yesLifespans 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
doaj   +1 more source

Men Finally Got It! Rhotic Assibilation in Mexican Spanish in Chihuahua

open access: yesLanguages, 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

open access: yesLaboratory 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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Sociophonetics and rhotics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The highly variable nature of rhotics is behind their great potential as sociolinguistic variables. The advent of detailed sociophonetic studies has further increased the interest in exploring the many dimensions of r variation.
Sebregts, Koen   +2 more
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Variation and change over time in British choral singing (1925–2019)

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology
The 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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An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish

open access: yesEstudios de Fonética Experimental
This 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
doaj   +1 more source

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