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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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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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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: NETWORKING HERITAGE INVENTORIES IN ENGLAND [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2013 This paper will look at the requirements for a future vision of networked, digital heritage inventories to support heritage protection in England. The present loose network presents several challenges for multiple organizations maintaining similar ...
P. K. Carlisle, E. S. Lee
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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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Winston Churchill’s Divi Britannici (1675) and Archipelagic Royalism
Humanities, 2022 Divi Britannici (1675) is a major restoration history that deserves to be more widely known. The work’s author, Sir Winston Churchill (1620–1688), is certainly less well-known than his celebrated descendant of the same name.
Willy Maley, Richard Stacey
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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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Style-Shifting in Vlogging: An Acoustic Analysis of “YouTube Voice”
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This article demonstrates evidence of context-related style-shifting on YouTube. This was achieved by comparing the vowels of vlogger Phil Lester in multiple contexts (a solo vlog, collaborative vlog, gaming video, and live video).
Sarah Lee
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Accepting a “New” Standard Variety: Comparing Explicit Attitudes in Luxembourg and Belgium
Languages, 2021 Language maintenance efforts aim to bolster attitudes towards endangered languages by providing them with a standard variety as a means to raise their status and prestige. However, the introduced variety can vary in its degrees of standardisation.
Judit Vari, Marco Tamburelli
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‘Ow Cockney is Beckham Twenty Years On? An Investigation into H-dropping and T-glottaling
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This research paper examines how language change can occur across the lifespan through the linguistic analysis of East Londoner, and world renowned football player, David Beckham.
Sofia Dahou, Jasmine Hamlin
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Frontiers in Communication, 2023 Nasal coarticulation is when the lowering of the velum for a nasal consonant co-occurs with the production of an adjacent vowel, causing the vowel to become (at least partially) nasalized.
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