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A Semiotic Approach to Social Meaning in Language

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 59-73, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Linguistic awareness is a complex and multi‐layered set of processes, existing in different forms of consciousness or knowledge. Social meaning resides in the ways that people perceive linguistic behavior as patterned and predictable, depending on their experience with, stereotypes about, and understanding of different groups.
Anna M. Babel
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2017
It is my pleasure to present the first issue of the third volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation . This issue includes five papers on topics about within-speaker variation that are largely under-researched in
Lauren Hall-Lew
doaj   +3 more sources

Bilabial fricatives in Mexican Spanish: A sociophonetic analysis

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019
Voiceless bilabial fricative productions ([ɸ]) have been widely reported for several Spanish dialects especially in America (Lenz 1940; Predmore 1945; Navarro Tomás 1943; Florez 1951; Boyd-Bowman 1960; Canfield 1981; among others).
Sergio Robles-Puente   +1 more
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Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 74-92, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Discussions of sociolinguistic awareness are often about how patterns observed in one practice (often linguistic production) appear in others (often person perception or metalinguistic commentary). Models like Labov's indicator/marker/stereotype trichotomy force this complexity into a single dimension, due to presupposing a conscious ...
Kathryn Campbell‐Kibler
wiley   +1 more source

Parodying incompetence in (I)europa: Hearing glide insertion and communism in a Romanian politician's speech

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 493-517, December 2024.
Abstract My paper asks which linguistic features become enregistered to a politician's image, and how this process occurs. I examine glide insertion in the speech of former Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă and parodies of her. As parody requires exaggeration of salient features in order to be legible, I use it to investigate what is heard as ...
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
wiley   +1 more source

Buenas no[tʃ]es y mu[ts]isimas gracias: A Sociophonetic Study of the Alveolar Affricate in Peninsular Spanish Political Speech

open access: yesLanguages
While variation in the southern Peninsular Spanish affricate /tʃ/ has been considered in the context of deaffrication to [ʃ], this study examines an emergent variant [ts] in the context of sociolinguistic identity and style in political speech.
Matthew Pollock
doaj   +1 more source

Towards Modeling Second Dialect Speech Learning: The Production of Bogota [s] in Ciudad Bolivar by Speakers of Three Different Varieties of Colombian Spanish

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
This study investigates the second dialect production of Bogota Spanish /s/ in coda position by speakers of three different varieties of Colombian Spanish, who have been in contact in Ciudad Bolivar, a community located in Bogota, Colombia. The study has
Cenaida Gómez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The pitfalls of near-mergers: A sociophonetic approach to near-demergers in the Malaga /θ/ vs /s/ split

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2023
The near-merger hypothesis has served to explain many situations where other explanations have not sufficed, including mainly those where apparently completed mergers have been reversed.
Molina García Álvaro
doaj   +1 more source

Gender and age biases in the assessment of speech accuracy: A study of speech‐language clinicians’ ratings of /s/ accuracy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 59, Issue 6, Page 2878-2895, November/December 2024.
Abstract Purpose Typically developing children assigned male at birth (AMAB) and children assigned female at birth (AFAB) produce the fricative /s/ differently: AFAB children produce /s/ with a higher spectral peak frequency. This study examined whether implicit knowledge of these differences affects speech‐language pathologists’/speech and language ...
Benjamin Munson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2016
It is my pleasure to present the second issue of the second volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation. This issue includes six papers from nine authors. The first three papers are by undergraduate students in Dr
Lauren Hall-Lew
doaj   +3 more sources

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