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Voice Quality in Individuals With Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Background Speech and voice disorders are frequently observed in individuals with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). However, the literature lacks detailed descriptions of how perceptual and acoustic characteristics manifest in the voice quality profiles of this population.
Vanessa Medina +4 more
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Sociophonetics and Dialectology
, 2023 In this chapter we explore how the investigation of phonetic detail in speech seen through a sociolinguistic lens can inform and enhance our understanding of dialectal variation in languages.
Renwick, Margaret E. L. +2 more
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The Fandom Pairing Name: Blends and the Phonology-Orthography Interface
Names, 2012 In English, blending is a highly predictable and productive naming process. However, no systematic morphological template for blends has yet been proposed. Using data from Internet fandom pairing names (FPNs), I describe the phonological and orthographic
Cara M DiGirolamo
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Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 439-451, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether nonbinary speakers’ imitation of extended voice onset time (VOT) in word‐initial English /p, t, k/ is impacted by whether they believe they are listening to a nonbinary or binary model speaker. Forty‐five nonbinary American English speakers participated in an online VOT shadowing task, and the results find that ...
Jack Rechsteiner
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Focusing and diffusion in 'Cape Flats English': a sociophonetic study of three vowels [PDF]
, 2012 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This research contributes to the wider fields of sociophonetics and the social dialectology of English in South Africa. The study looks at three vowel sets; GOOSE, BATH and KIT taken from Wells (1982).
Brown, Justin
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Is It a Southern Thing? Linguistic Stereotyping in Earwitnesses’ Descriptions of Italian Accents
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 411-425, September 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how linguistic stereotypes affect hearer perceptions of different speakers’ accents focusing on two Italian regional varieties: one from the South and one from the North. Three studies explored the effects of selective attention, confirmation bias, and cultural context.
Clara Loiacono, Luuk Lagerwerf
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El [ʃ]oquero: /tʃ/ variation in Huelva capital and surrounding towns
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2022 This study examines allophonic realizations of /tʃ/ in Huelva (Western Andalucía) to assess if the traditional Andalusian [ʃ] variant is being maintained or if, similar to Eastern Andalucía, it is undergoing dialect levelling in favor of the Castilian ...
Brendan Regan
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Auditory and Acoustic Evidence for Palatalization of the Nasal Consonant in Cairene Arabic
Languages, 2021 This paper introduces the palatalized nasal [nʲ] as an allophonic realization of coronal /n/ in Cairene Arabic. The palatalized variants of the phonemes previously described in acoustic and sociolinguistic terms include the alveolar stops [t, d] and ...
Navdeep Sokhey
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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 426-438, September 2026.ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
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