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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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Precision Photometry for Q0957+561 Images A and B [PDF]
, 1998 Since the persuasive determination of the time-delay in Q0957+561, much interest has centered around shifting and subtracting the A and B light-curves to look for residuals due to microlensing.
Haarsma D. B. +4 more
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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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Fund family tournament and performance consequences: evidence from the UK fund industry [PDF]
, 2014 By applying tournament analysis to the UK Unit Trusts data, the results support significant risk shifting in the family tournament; i.e. interim winning managers tend to increase their level of risk exposure more than losing managers.
Zhang, Zhichao +3 more
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Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This study examines style-shifting in the case of Paul Banks, lead singer of the indie rock band Interpol, who spent a substantial amount of time during his adolescence in Spain and Mexico and therefore has access to their corresponding dialects.
Mario Magued Mina, Jasmina Kerla
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Code-Switching in the University Level Students of Bangladesh: An Empirical Study [PDF]
, 2020 The motto of this research article is to present how Bangladeshi University students use the mixture of both English and Bengali language as their spoken language.
Amin, Md Ruhul
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An Intraspeaker Variation Study of Scottish English /r/ Pharyngealisation
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Pharyngealisation— the retraction of the tongue towards the pharynx— of prepausal and preconsonantal /r/ has been recognised as an emergent strategy of derhoticisation in Scotland’s Central Belt (Stuart-Smith 2007).
Ruaridh Purse, Euan McGill
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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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Working-Class Heroes: Intraspeaker Variation in General Secretary Len McCluskey
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 We examine “Liverpool lenition” in the speech of Len McCluskey, a speaker of “Scouse”. Scouse is a variety of Liverpool English associated with the working-class persona of the “Liverpudlian”.
Aïsha Daw, Xueyan Zhou
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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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