The role of duration in the perception of vowel merger
Laboratory Phonology, 2017 Speakers with vowel categories that are considered merged by traditional measures (e.g., F1 and F2 measurements at a single time point) may contrast vowel classes in dimensions beyond vowel quality, such as duration.
Lacey Wade
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Regional Variability and Ethnic Identity:Chinese Americans in New York City and San Francisco [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines the realizations of the BOUGHT vowel (in words like ‘taught’ and ‘sauce’) by Chinese Americans of Cantonese heritage in New York City and San Francisco.
Hall-Lew, Lauren, Wong, Amy Wing-mei
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Implicit effects of regional cues on the interpretation of intonation by Corsican French listeners
Laboratory Phonology, 2019 It is now well documented for different varieties of English that the speech production and perception systems rapidly adapt to contextual social cues.
Cristel Portes, James Sneed German
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Resilience of English vowel perception across regional accent variation [PDF]
, 2018 In two categorization experiments using phonotactically legal nonce words, we tested Australian English listeners’ perception of all vowels in their own accent as well as in four less familiar regional varieties of English which differ in how their vowel
Best, Catherine +6 more
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The effects of language dominance switch in bilinguals: Galician new speakers' speech production and perception [PDF]
, 2018 It has long been debated whether speech production and perception remain flexible in adulthood. The current study investigates the effects of language dominance switch in Galician new speakers (neofalantes) who are raised with Spanish as a primary ...
Evans, BG, Tomé Lourido, G
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Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 194-209, June 2025.ABSTRACT Sociophonetic perception is often studied using versions of the matched guise technique (MGT). Linguists using this technique appear united in the methodological assumptions that participants believe the manipulation and that this belief influences perception below the level of introspective awareness.
Kyler Laycock, Kevin B. McGowan
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Investigating rhoticity in Scottish Standard English with sociolinguistic interviews and corpus data
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 108-126, March-June 2025.Abstract This paper approaches variable rhoticity in Scottish Standard English (SSE) from a methodological, data‐oriented perspective. The main focus is on how to integrate within a single sociolinguistic framework data that have been elicited under different conditions (sociolinguistic interviews vs. corpus data) and may therefore be incompatible when
Ole Schützler
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Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This paper contributes to research on the social meaning of creaky voice in American English by offering an intraspeaker analysis of the speech of Lady Gaga, an American pop star.
Lewis Esposito
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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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On the development of a new standard norm in Italian [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter provides an overview of the main topics concerning the restandardization process of Italian. We will first discuss some general issues related to the Italian sociolinguistic situation, paying special attention to the status of Italo-Romance ...
Cerruti, Massimo +2 more
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