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Understanding voice‐based information uncertainty: A case study of health information seeking with voice assistants

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 75, Issue 10, Page 1041-1057, October 2024.
Abstract Evaluating information quality online is increasingly important for healthy decision‐making. People assess information quality using visual interfaces (e.g., computers, smartphones) with visual cues like aesthetics. Yet, voice interfaces lack critical visual cues for evaluating information because there is often no visual display. Without ways
Robin Brewer
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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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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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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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Sociophonetic Variation in Speech Perception [PDF]

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2010
Abstract In this paper, I review previous research that investigates sociophonetic variation in speech perception. I also argue that more speech perception work is needed to inform work on variation in speech production, particularly in the areas of language change and stereotype formation.
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Sociophonetics of Hmong American English in Minnesota [PDF]

, 2011
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. September 2011. Major:Linguistics. Advisors:Benjamin R. Munson & Jeanette K. Gundel. 1 computer file (PDF); xi, 152 pages, appendices A-E.This dissertation is a sociophonetic analysis of the English spoken by ...
Kaiser, Eden A.
core  

Sociophonetics of phonotactic phenomena in French [PDF]

, 2015
The aim of this paper is to shed new light on the behaviour of 5 phonotactic phenomena in French, which have been shown to be rather sensitive to regional and/or stylistic variation: schwa deletion at the initial of polysyllabic words and in monosyllabic grammatical words, liaison, deletion of final post- obstruent /l/ and /R/ and of /l/ in the 3rd ...
Avanzi, Mathieu, Brognaux, Sandrine
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Theory and Methods in Sociophonetics Research: A Review of Sociophonetics

Philosophy and Social Science
The book “Key Topics in Sociolinguistics” represents the latest contribution published by Cambridge University Press, which delves into the specialized field of sociophonetics with comprehensive detail. This academic piece systematically outlines the basic concepts, main theories, interdisciplinary approaches, and methodological practices prevalent ...
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The role of duration in the perception of vowel merger

Laboratory Phonology, 2017
Speakers with vowel categories that are considered merged by traditional measures (e.g., F1 and F2 measurements at a single time point) may contrast vowel classes in dimensions beyond vowel quality, such as duration.
Lacey Wade
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Implicit effects of regional cues on the interpretation of intonation by Corsican French listeners

Laboratory Phonology, 2019
It is now well documented for different varieties of English that the speech production and perception systems rapidly adapt to contextual social cues.
Cristel Portes, James Sneed German
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