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‘No’ Dimo’ par de Botella’ y Ahora Etamo’ Al Garete’: Exploring the Intersections of Coda /s/, Place, and the Reggaetón Voice

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The rebranding of reggaetón towards Latin urban has been criticized for tokenizing Afro-Caribbean linguistic and cultural practices as symbolic resources recruitable by non-Caribbean artists/executives in the interest of profit.
Derrek Powell
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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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Parodying incompetence in (I)europa: Hearing glide insertion and communism in a Romanian politician's speech

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 493-517, December 2024.
Abstract My paper asks which linguistic features become enregistered to a politician's image, and how this process occurs. I examine glide insertion in the speech of former Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă and parodies of her. As parody requires exaggeration of salient features in order to be legible, I use it to investigate what is heard as ...
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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“That’s What It Felt Like, ‘You’re Pathetic’”: Creaky voice, Affective Stance, and Authentication in the Speech of Lady Gaga

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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Black Country English in the Spotlight: A Stylistic Analysis of Variable Contrast between Phonemes in an Urban Regiolect of British English

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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What We Do with the Meanings We Make

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 363-366, November 2025.
Vincent Pak
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The Sociophonetics and Lyrical Codemixing of Hot Latin Songs: a Comparison of the Spontaneous Speech and the Artistic Performance Speech of the Top Two Artists in the Global Market, Bad Bunny and J Balvin

, 2022
Electronic Thesis or DissertationThis mixed-methods study looks in detail at the artistic performance of identity via the sociophonetics of coda /s/ realizations and the Spanish-English codemixing of the two top Latin music artists in the global market ...
Hayes, Elizabeth Naranjo
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Editorial

Lifespans and Styles, 2017
It is my pleasure to present the first issue of the third volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation . This issue includes five papers on topics about within-speaker variation that are largely under-researched in
Lauren Hall-Lew
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Perception Is Political: The Production–Perception Interface as a Contested Site of Power and Legibility

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 367-370, November 2025.
Ariana Steele
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Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban [PDF]

, 2011
This research has been designed to investigate regional differences in a variety of South African English known as General South African English, between the White communities of Durban and Cape Town respectively.
Wileman, Bruce
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