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Languages, 2020 Multilingual communities often exhibit asymmetry in directionality by which the majority language exerts greater influence on the minority language.
Justin Davidson
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 75, Issue 10, Page 1041-1057, October 2024.Abstract Evaluating information quality online is increasingly important for healthy decision‐making. People assess information quality using visual interfaces (e.g., computers, smartphones) with visual cues like aesthetics. Yet, voice interfaces lack critical visual cues for evaluating information because there is often no visual display. Without ways
Robin Brewer
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Robustness and Complexity in Italian Mid Vowel Contrasts
LanguagesAccounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose patterning reveals speakers’ knowledge about their native language.
Margaret E. L. Renwick
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Analyzing linguistic variation using discursive worlds
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 40-63, September 2024.Abstract Researchers in variationist sociolinguistics have long sought to develop social measures that are more sophisticated than demographic categories such as age, gender, and social class, while still being useful for quantitative analysis. This paper presents one such new measure: discursive worlds.
Heather Burnett +2 more
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An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish
Estudios de Fonética ExperimentalThis study focuses on the acoustic characteristics of two fricative variants of /r/ in the highlands of Bolivia: a dominant postalveolar retroflex variant with or without initial linguo-palatal contact, [r̝, ʐ], present alongside a fronted variant [z ...
Philippe Boula de Mareüil +2 more
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Phonetic cues to depression: A sociolinguistic perspective
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 5, September/October 2024.Abstract Phonetic data are used in several ways outside of the core field of phonetics. This paper offers the perspective of one such field, sociophonetics, towards another, the study of acoustic cues to clinical depression. While sociophonetics is interested in how, when, and why phonetic variables cue information about the world, the study of ...
Lauren Hall‐Lew
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Variation and change over time in British choral singing (1925–2019)
Laboratory PhonologyThe front vowels of Received Pronunciation lowered in quality over the twentieth century (Wells, 1982b; Fabricius, 2007; Bjelaković, 2017). Connections between choral singing and Southern Standard British English (SSBE) have been made in musicological ...
Edward Marshall +3 more
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The Young and the Old: (t) Release in Elderspeak
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 Elderspeak refers to a speech style used when talking to the elderly. The aim of this study was to find out whether a higher rate of standard phonetic variants of phonemes is a feature of elderspeak.
James Michaelov
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Lifespans and Styles, 2016 When examining the COT /CAUGHT merger in central Pennsylvania, Labov (1994) uncovered a stylistic phenomenon, known as the “ Bill Peters Effect” , whereby speakers heavily differentiate between /ɑ/ and /ɔː/ in spontaneous speech, but converge the two ...
Joel Merry
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Variation in the Voiced Coronals of Two Fataluku-speaking Villages
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2019 Several studies comment on regional variation in Fataluku, but no detailed study of phonetic variation has yet been published. This paper reports on the distribution of [z], [j], and other voiced coronals in phonetically-controlled speech from fourteen ...
Tyler M. Heston
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