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Phonetic vs. Phonological Considerations in Inter-Generational Vowel Change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese [PDF]
, 2016 Chang et al. (2011) have shown that phonological considerations may override phonetic similarity in influencing the phonetic production of /u/ and /y/ among heritage Mandarin speakers.
Tse, Holman
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Ejectives in Scottish English: a social perspective [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents the results of an analysis of the realization of word-final /k/ in a sample of read and casual speech by 28 female pupils from a single-sex Glaswegian high school.
McCarthy, Owen, Stuart-Smith, Jane
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 367-370, November 2025.
Ariana Steele
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Analyzing linguistic variation using discursive worlds
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 40-63, September 2024.Abstract Researchers in variationist sociolinguistics have long sought to develop social measures that are more sophisticated than demographic categories such as age, gender, and social class, while still being useful for quantitative analysis. This paper presents one such new measure: discursive worlds.
Heather Burnett +2 more
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Goin’ Home: The Role of Vowel Raising in Indexing an Ethnic Identity
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 Vowel height can be seen as a feature indexing a particular ethnic identity or indicating a style shift between two such identities. This paper focuses on Bradford-born South Asian musician Zayn Malik, an interesting subject given his prominent status as
Suzey Ingold
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Phonetic cues to depression: A sociolinguistic perspective
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 5, September/October 2024.Abstract Phonetic data are used in several ways outside of the core field of phonetics. This paper offers the perspective of one such field, sociophonetics, towards another, the study of acoustic cues to clinical depression. While sociophonetics is interested in how, when, and why phonetic variables cue information about the world, the study of ...
Lauren Hall‐Lew
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Pulling Out All the Stops: Referee Design and Phonetic Correlates of Gay Men’s English
Lifespans and Styles, 2015 Studies of intraspeaker variation and the linguistic indexing of sexual identity have formed an important part of recent research in variationist sociolinguistics.
Victoria Dickson, Yorath Turner
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Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This paper investigates the attachment of overt and covert prestige to different varieties of Scottish Standard English (SSE), namely, Scots-SSE and Anglo-SSE. SSE itself encompasses wide linguistic variation and is often described as an accent continuum:
Abigail Salvesen
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“My Vocal Cords are Made of Tweed”: Style-Shifting as Speaker Design
Lifespans and Styles, 2015 Intraspeaker variation is evaluated in terms of speaker design in a number of studies (Coupland 1985, Schilling-Estes 1998, Podesva 2008). This study explores possible motives for variation from a speaker design perspective through the analysis of three ...
Melissa Geere +2 more
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Is a Day out of Hawick a Day Wasted? A Study of Bidialectalism in Young Hawick Females
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This study investigates young female speakers from Hawick in southern Scotland. The main focus is to identify whether bidialectal-like shifts occur in the young female speakers’ use of local dialect features, depending on the dialect of their ...
Alice Rawsthorne
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