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Asymmetry and Directionality in Catalan–Spanish Contact: Intervocalic Fricatives in Barcelona and Valencia

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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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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Advances in Sociophonetics

, 2014
Sociophonetics is a privileged domain for the investigation of language variation and change. By combining theoretical reflections and sophisticated techniques of analysis, both phonetic and statistical, it is possible to disentangle step by step the ...
Labov et al., Celata, C., Calamai, Silvia   +2 more
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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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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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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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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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Editorial

Lifespans 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
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Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features

Journal 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
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