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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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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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Resilience of English vowel perception across regional accent variation [PDF]
, 2018 In two categorization experiments using phonotactically legal nonce words, we tested Australian English listeners’ perception of all vowels in their own accent as well as in four less familiar regional varieties of English which differ in how their vowel
Best, Catherine +6 more
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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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Laboratory PhonologySpeakers often select between phonetic variants to convey social or indexical information. The extent to which speakers can access one variant despite competition from another, more strongly activated one remains largely unanswered.
Jennifer Cole, Shawn Christian Foster
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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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Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThe global diffusion of English has fostered diverse localized varieties, among which Pakistani English (PE) continues to evolve within its multilingual and socially stratified environment.
Shaista Rashid, Sadia Malik, Aleeza Gull
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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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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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