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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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Working-Class Heroes: Intraspeaker Variation in General Secretary Len McCluskey
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 We examine “Liverpool lenition” in the speech of Len McCluskey, a speaker of “Scouse”. Scouse is a variety of Liverpool English associated with the working-class persona of the “Liverpudlian”.
Aïsha Daw, Xueyan Zhou
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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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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT The troves of speech data that have driven an increasing orientation towards large‐scale methods in linguistics have been, for the most part, available only to closed teams of researchers and their collaborators. The Archive of Pittsburgh Language and Speech (APLS, https://apls.pitt.edu) is a new open data resource, consisting of nearly 46 h ...
Dan Villarreal +3 more
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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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Goin’ Home: The Role of Vowel Raising in Indexing an Ethnic Identity
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 Vowel height can be seen as a feature indexing a particular ethnic identity or indicating a style shift between two such identities. This paper focuses on Bradford-born South Asian musician Zayn Malik, an interesting subject given his prominent status as
Suzey Ingold
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Languages, 2020 This article presents a study of measures of center of gravity (COG) in phrase-final fricative epithesis (PFFE) produced by L1 and L2 speakers of Continental French (CF).
Amanda Dalola, Keiko Bridwell
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 177-192, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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DRESS-Down: /ε/-lowering in Apparent Tme 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, Jennifer
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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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