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Gender and age biases in the assessment of speech accuracy: A study of speech‐language clinicians’ ratings of /s/ accuracy

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 59, Issue 6, Page 2878-2895, November/December 2024.
Abstract Purpose Typically developing children assigned male at birth (AMAB) and children assigned female at birth (AFAB) produce the fricative /s/ differently: AFAB children produce /s/ with a higher spectral peak frequency. This study examined whether implicit knowledge of these differences affects speech‐language pathologists’/speech and language ...
Benjamin Munson, Chloe Wruck, Nina R. Benway, Jonathan L. Preston   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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The effects of language dominance switch in bilinguals: Galician new speakers' speech production and perception [PDF]

, 2018
It has long been debated whether speech production and perception remain flexible in adulthood. The current study investigates the effects of language dominance switch in Galician new speakers (neofalantes) who are raised with Spanish as a primary ...
Evans, BG, Tomé Lourido, G
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An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish

Estudios de Fonética Experimental
This study focuses on the acoustic characteristics of two fricative variants of /r/ in the highlands of Bolivia: a dominant postalveolar retroflex variant with or without initial linguo-palatal contact, [r̝, ʐ], present alongside a fronted variant [z ...
Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Alexis Pierrard, Albert Rilliard   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
It is my pleasure to present the second issue of the second volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation. This issue includes six papers from nine authors. The first three papers are by undergraduate students in Dr
Lauren Hall-Lew
doaj   +1 more source

What We Do with the Meanings We Make

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 363-366, November 2025.
Vincent Pak
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

In search of cues discriminating West-african accents in French [PDF]

, 2011
International audienceThis study investigates to what extent West-African French accents can be distinguished, based on recordings made in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal.
Boula De Mareüil, Philippe, Rouas, Jean-Luc, Yapomo, Manuela   +2 more
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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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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
wiley   +1 more source