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Sociophonetics research is located at the interface of sociolinguistics and experimental phonetics. Its primary focus is to shed new light on the social-indexical phonetic properties of speech, revealing a wide range of phonetic parameters that map systematically to social factors relevant to speakers and listeners, and the fact that many of these ...
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Supernanny: An Intraspeaker Study of Addressee Effects in the Speech of Jo Frost
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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Review of Tyler Kendall & Valerie Fridland. 2021. Sociophonetics [PDF]
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Costin-Valentin Oancea
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The study of vowel variation has featured prominently in advancing sociophonetic theory and methods, driving technological innovation and motivating the formulation of novel research questions. From the very early days of the discipline, quantitative analysis of vowels has been an enduring presence, with acoustic analysis playing a central role.
Cox, Felicity, Docherty, Gerard
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Phonological Factors Affecting L1 Phonetic Realization of Proficient Polish Users of English [PDF]
Acoustic phonetic studies examine the L1 of Polish speakers with professional level proficiency in English. The studies include two tasks, a production task carried out entirely in Polish and a phonetic code-switching task in which speakers insert target
Anna Balas +62 more
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Sixty Years of Speech: A Study of Language Change in Adulthood
Research on language change has been complicated and hindered by the problem of obtaining quality data. In many cases, the large volume of time required to collect recorded speech at different intervals, as necessary in lifespan studies, is prohibitive ...
Bei Qing Cham
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Current research on linguistic variation in the Arabic-speaking world [PDF]
Given its abundance of dialects, varieties, styles and registers, Arabic lends itself easily to the study of language variation and change. It is spoken by some 300 million people in an area spanning roughly from northwest Africa to the Persian Gulf ...
Uri Horesh, William Cotter
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The Effects of Forensically Relevant Face Coverings on the Acoustic Properties of Fricatives
This forensically motivated study investigates the effects of a motorcycle helmet, balaclava, and plastic mask on the acoustics of three English non-sibilant fricatives, /f/, /θ/, and /v/ in two individuals. It examines variation within the individual as
Julie Saigusa
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Jane Lynch and /s/: The Effect of Addressee Sexuality on Fricative Realization
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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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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