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The phonosyntax in the teaching of Spanish: Proposal of a postgraduate course

open access: yesSantiago, 2017
This article deals with the inseparable relationship with the language, culture and society in language teaching. It aims to propose a postgraduate course for the treatment of fonosintácticos phenomena speech in teaching ELE, aimed at improving the ...
Ingrid Hernández-Moya
doaj  

The pitfalls of near-mergers: A sociophonetic approach to near-demergers in the Malaga /θ/ vs /s/ split

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2023
The near-merger hypothesis has served to explain many situations where other explanations have not sufficed, including mainly those where apparently completed mergers have been reversed.
Molina García Álvaro
doaj   +1 more source

The sociophonetics of uvular and prosodic variation in Dongxiang

open access: yesÉtudes mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
Dongxiang is currently undergoing significant sociolinguistic changes, as yet almost unaddressed. This sociophonetic case study compares the phonetic difference between the countryside and the city, on the basis of fieldwork conducted in 2019 in Linxia ...
Giulia Orlando
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness

open access: yesJournal 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

open access: yesWorld 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
wiley   +1 more source

Shortening of long high vowels in Hungarian : a perceptual loss? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Vowel quantity is distinctive in Hungarian for all vowels. However, the quantity opposition in high vowels has become unstable in colloquial speech.
Mády, Katalin
core  

Speaking rate and articulation rate of native speakers of Irish English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Previous studies have shown apparent difference in speaking rate and/or articulation rate between different dialects of English. In addition, native speakers of Irish English are perceived to be speaking very fast; however, there is very little ...
Doherty, Rachel, Lee, Alice S.
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The interpretation of prosodic variability in the context of accompanying sociophonetic cues

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology, 2017
Production data have shown that one of the features distinguishing uptalk rises from question rises in New Zealand English (NZE) is the alignment point of the rise start, which is earlier in question utterances realized by younger speakers.
Paul Warren
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Towards a model of world Englishes and multilingual variation

open access: yesWorld 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
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptual coding reliability of (L)-vocalization in casual speech data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
(L)-vocalization has been receiving increasing attention in sociophonetic research but is a challenging variable to measure consistently. Acoustic measures are not typically used because velarized-(L), which is the realization most likely to vocalize, is
Fix, Sonya, Hall-Lew, Lauren
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