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Sixty Years of Speech: A Study of Language Change in Adulthood
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Research on language change has been complicated and hindered by the problem of obtaining quality data. In many cases, the large volume of time required to collect recorded speech at different intervals, as necessary in lifespan studies, is prohibitive ...
Bei Qing Cham
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The Effects of Forensically Relevant Face Coverings on the Acoustic Properties of Fricatives
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This forensically motivated study investigates the effects of a motorcycle helmet, balaclava, and plastic mask on the acoustics of three English non-sibilant fricatives, /f/, /θ/, and /v/ in two individuals. It examines variation within the individual as
Julie Saigusa
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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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Jane Lynch and /s/: The Effect of Addressee Sexuality on Fricative Realization
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Although there has been a sizeable amount of work on the speech of gay men (e.g., Podesva 2007), there has been little to no research on gay or bisexual women, whether interspeaker or intraspeaker.
Julie Saigusa
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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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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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Towards a model of world Englishes and multilingual variation
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 12-25, March-June 2025.Abstract Drawing on research on multilingualism in South Africa and India, this paper attempts to integrate world Englishes studies and variationist sociolinguistics; in other words, to fill in a missing dialogue between Braj Kachru and William Labov.
Rajend Mesthrie
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Focusing and diffusion in 'Cape Flats English': a sociophonetic study of three vowels [PDF]
, 2012 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This research contributes to the wider fields of sociophonetics and the social dialectology of English in South Africa. The study looks at three vowel sets; GOOSE, BATH and KIT taken from Wells (1982).
Brown, Justin
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Testing sociolinguistic theory and methods in world Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 26-42, March-June 2025.Abstract This article assesses mainstream sociolinguistic theory and methods in the context of world Englishes. Despite its obvious applicability, sociolinguistic theory has not always been the primary analytic model for world Englishes. The multilingual and sometimes mobile circumstances of world Englishes contexts do not always fit the usual ...
Devyani Sharma
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A Semiotic Approach to Social Meaning in Language
Journal 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
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