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View article: Exploring the Role of Phonological Environment in Evaluating Social Meaning: The Case of /s/ Aspiration in Puerto Rican Spanish
Exploring the Role of Phonological Environment in Evaluating Social Meaning: The Case of /s/ Aspiration in Puerto Rican Spanish Open
Research in sociophonetic perception has suggested that linguistic factors influence the social meaning of a particular variant, such that the strength of social meaning appears to be mediated by factors like grammatical category or phonol…
View article: Bringing indexical orders to non-arbitrary meaning: The case of pitch and politeness in English and Korean
Bringing indexical orders to non-arbitrary meaning: The case of pitch and politeness in English and Korean Open
In this study, we investigated whether the relationship between pitch and politeness is mediated through iconic relationships between pitch and other talker attributes, and whether these relationships can differ across languages. US and So…
View article: Differences in Final /z/ Realization in Southwest and Northern Virginia
Differences in Final /z/ Realization in Southwest and Northern Virginia Open
Two apparently contradictory observations have been made about consonantal voicing in Southern U.S. English: compared to other U.S. varieties, Southern speakers produce more voicing on “voiced” stops, but they also “devoice” word-final /z/…
View article: The Effect of Talker Identity on Dialect Processing
The Effect of Talker Identity on Dialect Processing Open
Recent work has suggested that bilingual listeners use the visual identity of the talker to form expectations about the language the talker will use, which then facilitates lexical processing. In the current study, we extend this work to s…
View article: Voiced stops in the command performance of Southern US English
Voiced stops in the command performance of Southern US English Open
Four self-identified code-switchers from Southwest Virginia and six actors who did not identify as having Southern accents each recorded two sets of stimuli in which they aimed to produce a more Southern and a more Standardized US accent. …
View article: Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed words
Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed words Open
Recent work has shown that listeners process words faster if said by a member of the group that typically uses the word. This paper further explores how the social distributions of words affect lexical access by exploring whether access is…
View article: Folk Perception of African American English Regional Variation
Folk Perception of African American English Regional Variation Open
Contrary to previous “sociolinguistic folklore” that African American (Vernacular) English has a uniform structure across different parts of the US, recent studies have shown that it varies regionally, especially phonologically (Wolfram, 2…
View article: Advantage Accented? Listener Differences in Understanding Speech in Noise
Advantage Accented? Listener Differences in Understanding Speech in Noise Open
Cross dialectal communication results in poorer performance than within-dialect communication in a variety of listening tasks. However, some listeners appear to be less affected than others, and this paper explores the factors behind inter…
View article: Repeat what after whom? Exploring variable selectivity in a cross-dialectal shadowing task
Repeat what after whom? Exploring variable selectivity in a cross-dialectal shadowing task Open
Twenty women from Christchurch, New Zealand and 16 from Columbus Ohio (dialect region U.S. Midland) participated in a bimodal lexical naming task where they repeated monosyllabic words after four speakers from four regional dialects: New Z…
View article: Tracking word frequency effects through 130 years of sound change
Tracking word frequency effects through 130 years of sound change Open
Contemporary New Zealand English has distinctive pronunciations of three characteristic vowels. Did the evolution of these distinctive pronunciations occur in all words at the same time or were different words affected differently? We anal…