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, 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. The main focus of this chapter is on three processes involving rhotic variability.
Sebregts, Koen +2 more
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In search of cues discriminating West-african accents in French [PDF]
, 2011 International audienceThis study investigates to what extent West-African French accents can be distinguished, based on recordings made in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal.
Boula De Mareüil, Philippe +2 more
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Shortening of long high vowels in Hungarian : a perceptual loss? [PDF]
, 2010 Vowel quantity is distinctive in Hungarian for all vowels. However, the quantity opposition in high vowels has become unstable in colloquial speech.
Mády, Katalin
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Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract Although there is a bourgeoning of studies on attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes, there is limited research on the effects of participants’ discipline (STEM and non‐STEM) and the type of secondary school (private and government) they attended in evaluating Nigerian Englishes.
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
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DRESS-down: /ε/-lowering in apparent time in a rural Scottish community [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents a sociophonetic investigation of /ɛ/-lowering in apparent time. The data come from 24 speakers, across three generations from Buckie, northeast Scotland (12 males, 12 females).
Holmes-Elliott, Sophie, Smith, Jennifee
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An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English‐as‐a‐first‐language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia.
Yizhou Wang +4 more
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LanguagesThe rebranding of reggaetón towards Latin urban has been criticized for tokenizing Afro-Caribbean linguistic and cultural practices as symbolic resources recruitable by non-Caribbean artists/executives in the interest of profit.
Derrek Powell
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Responding to accents after experiencing interactive or mediated speech [PDF]
, 2011 Very little known is about how speakers learn about and/or respond to speech experienced without the possibility for interaction. This paper reports an experiment which considers the effects of two kinds of exposure to speech (interactive or non ...
Holmes, S. +4 more
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Perceptual coding reliability of (L)-vocalization in casual speech data [PDF]
, 2012 (L)-vocalization has been receiving increasing attention in sociophonetic research but is a challenging variable to measure consistently. Acoustic measures are not typically used because velarized-(L), which is the realization most likely to vocalize, is
Fix, Sonya, Hall-Lew, Lauren
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Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales.
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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