Journal articles: 'Sociophonetics'

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Gafter, Roey J. "Modern Hebrew Sociophonetics." Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 11, no. 1 (June 12, 2019): 226–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18776930-01101014.

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Abstract This paper surveys current research on the sociophonetics of Modern Hebrew, meaning the research of phonetic variation in Hebrew speech that is socially conditioned, or interpreted as socially meaningful. The paper discusses recent methodological and theoretical advances in sociophonetic research on production and perception, and illustrates how these have been implemented in Hebrew and influenced our understanding of Hebrew sociolinguistics. It further highlights a number of key sociolinguistic variables that have received the most attention in quantitative research on segmental variation: the pharyngeal segments (ħ) and (ʕ), the Hebrew rhotic (r), the glottal fricative (h), and the diphthong (ej). The paper concludes with a discussion of future directions and additional variables of interest which have the potential to advance the growing field of Hebrew sociophonetics.

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Hay, Jennifer, and Katie Drager. "Sociophonetics." Annual Review of Anthropology 36, no. 1 (September 2007): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120633.

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Celata, Chiara, Chiara Meluzzi, and Irene Ricci. "The sociophonetics of rhotic variation in Sicilian dialects and Sicilian Italian: corpus, methodology and first results." Loquens 3, no. 1 (September 29, 2016): 025. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/loquens.2016.025.

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SoPhISM (The SocioPhonetics of verbal Interaction: Sicilian Multimodal corpus) is an acoustic and articulatory sociophonetic corpus focused on whithin-speaker variation as a function of stylistic/communicative factors. The corpus is particularly intended for the study of rhotics as a sociolinguistic variable in the production of Sicilian speakers. Rhotics are analyzed according to the distinction between single-phase and multiple-phase rhotics along with the presence of constriction and aperture articulatory phases. Based on these parameters, the annotation protocol seeks to classify rhotic variants within a sufficiently granular, but internally consistent, phonetic perspective. The proposed descriptive parameters allow for the discussion of atypical realizations in terms of phonetic derivations (or simplifications) of typical closure–aperture sequences. The distribution of fricative variants in the speech repertoire of one speaker and his interlocutors shows the potential provided by SoPhISM for sociophonetic variation to be studied at the ‘micro’ level of individual speaker’s idiolects.

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Thomas, Erik R. "Sociophonetics of Consonantal Variation." Annual Review of Linguistics 2, no. 1 (January 14, 2016): 95–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011415-040534.

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Cameron, D. "SOCIOPHONETICS AND SEXUALITY: DISCUSSION." American Speech 86, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 98–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1277537.

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KOMATSU, MASAHIKO. "Sociophonetics: An Introduction." ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 31, no. 2 (2014): 671–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.9793/elsj.31.2_671.

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Schmid, Stephan. "Pour une sociophonétique des ethnolectes suisses-allemands." Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique, no. 53 (January 1, 2011): 93–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.26034/tranel.2011.2782.

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Over the last ten years or so, '(multi)ethnolects' – i.e. the language varieties of young immigrants – have attracted the attention of sociolinguists from several European countries. The most promising theoretical model (Auer 2003) distinguishes between primary, secondary and tertiary ethnolects, depending on whether the observed features appear in the speech of the immigrants themselves or if they are imitated by comedians and by youngsters without an immigrant background. The present contribution illustrates the dynamic nature of such 'ethnolectal' features in Swiss German in the light of Auer's model. Implications of our findings for a theory of sociophonetics are discussed, e.g. with regard to the sociolinguistic status of the involved variables (markers, indicators, stereotypes). Finally, it is pointed out that the realm of sociophonetic inquiry is shifting from the social characteristics of the language user towards different modes of language use.

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Van der Harst, Sander, Hans Van de Velde, and Roeland Van Hout. "Variation in Standard Dutch vowels: The impact of formant measurement methods on identifying the speaker's regional origin." Language Variation and Change 26, no. 2 (June 16, 2014): 247–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394514000040.

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AbstractIt is common practice in sociophonetics to measure vowel formants at one (monophthongs) or two (diphthongs) time points. This paper compares this traditional target approach with two dynamic approaches for investigating regional patterns of variation: the multiple time point approach, which measures formants at successive time points, and the regression approach, which estimates formant dynamics over time by fitting polynomial regression equations to formant contours. The speech material consisted of monosyllabic words containing all full vowels of Dutch, except for /y/. These words were read out by 160 speakers of Standard Dutch, who were distributed over four regions in the Netherlands and four regions in Flanders, Belgium. The results show that dynamic approaches outperform the target approach in uncovering regional vowel differences, which suggests that sociophonetic vowel studies that apply the target approach run the risk of overlooking important sociolinguistic patterns.

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Fabricius, Anne H. "Variation and change in thetrapandstrutvowels of RP: a real time comparison of five acoustic data sets." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 37, no. 3 (December 2007): 293–320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002510030700312x.

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The present study examines evidence for change in real time within the short vowel subsystem of the RP accent of English over the course of the twentieth century. It compares plots of average formant positions for the short vowels, stemming from several data corpora. It furthermore describes a change over time in the juxtaposition of thetrapandstrutvowels as captured in the calculated angle and distance between the two, usingtrapas a fixed point. This representation of a relationship in a single measurement by means of angle calculation is a methodological innovation for the sociophonetic enterprise. A value specifying the geometric relationship between two vowel positions is precise and replicable, as well as abstract enough to be comparable across data sets. Differences between ‘phonetic’ and ‘sociolinguistic’ stances on the interpretation of acoustic vowel data in formant plots and the issue of suitable vowel normalisation procedures for sociophonetics will also be discussed.

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Gordon, Matthew J. "Review of Thomas (2011): Sociophonetics. An Introduction." English World-Wide 34, no. 3 (October 11, 2013): 378–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.34.3.08gor.

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Drager, Katie, and Jennifer Hay. "Exploiting random intercepts: Two case studies in sociophonetics." Language Variation and Change 24, no. 1 (March 2012): 59–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394512000014.

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AbstractAn increasing number of sociolinguists are using mixed effects models, models which allow for the inclusion of both fixed and random predicting variables. In most analyses, random effect intercepts are treated as a by-product of the model; they are viewed simply as a way to fit a more accurate model. This paper presents additional uses for random effect intercepts within the context of two case studies. Specifically, this paper demonstrates how random intercepts can be exploited to assist studies of speaker style and identity and to normalize for vocal tract size within certain linguistic environments. We argue that, in addition to adopting mixed effect modeling more generally, sociolinguists should view random intercepts as a potential tool during analysis.

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Kasianova, O. "SOCIOPHONETICS AS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BRANCH OF MODERN LINGUISTICS." International Humanitarian University Herald. Philology 1, no. 42 (2019): 138–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.32841/2409-1154.2019.42.1.32.

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Reed, P. "DEFINING THE FIELD: A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOPHONETICS." American Speech 89, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 111–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2726422.

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Trudgill, Peter. "The Sociophonetics of /l/ in the Greek of Sphakiá." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 15, no. 2 (July 1989): 18–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100300002942.

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In most varieties of modern Greek, the consonant /l/ is typically a “clear” [l] in most environments, as in /ala/ [ala] αλλ⋯ ‘but’; but with positional variation involving also palatalised and/or palatal variants, as in /skili/ [skiļi] σχυλ⋯ ‘dog’. In a number of areas of northern Greece, velarised [⃒]-type pronunciations may also be found, as they may also be in those areas of Attica and Biotia where Albanian/Greek bilingualism is or has been common (see Trudgill & Tzavaras 1975 – most varieties of Albanian have a phonemic contrast between /l/ and /l/). In his book The Generative Interpretation of Dialect (1972), however, Brian Newton also points out that ‘in the Sphakiá area of Crete /l/ has a retroflex pronunciation before back vowels’. This feature is also cited by Kondosopoulos (1959, 1969, 1974) and Pangalos (1955), who also mention some other areas of Crete where a similar phenomenon occurs. (Following Kondosopoulos and Pangalos, Newton also indicates that /l/ → Ø or /l/ → /w/ in certain Cretan villages.)

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Gradoville, Michael S., Earl Kjar Brown, and Richard J. File-Muriel. "The phonetics of sociophonetics: Validating acoustic approaches to Spanish /s/." Journal of Phonetics 91 (March 2022): 101125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101125.

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Brown, Georgina, and Jessica Wormald. "Automatic sociophonetics: Exploring corpora with a forensic accent recognition system." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142, no. 1 (July 2017): 422–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4991330.

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Vieira, Silvia Rodrigues, and Cristina Marcia Monteiro de Lima Corrêa. "Colocação pronominal no Português do Brasil: a contribuição de estudos de percepção auditiva." Letras de Hoje 52, no. 1 (June 21, 2017): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2017.1.25277.

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Este artigo objetiva trazer evidências – da análise comparativa de investigações sobre a ordem dos clíticos pronominais baseadas na Sociolinguística Variacionista e na Fonologia Experimental (VIEIRA, 2002; CORRÊA, 2009; 2012) – da contribuição de estudos que conjugam a descrição de dados de produção e percepção linguísticas, auxiliada pela ressíntese da fala. Associando metodologias, as pesquisas mostram que é possível definir (i) a direção fonológica dos pronomes átonos, à direita (como sílabas pretônicas) ou à esquerda (como sílabas postônicas); (ii) os parâmetros acústicos responsáveis por essa direção; e, consequentemente, precisar, em termos sociofonéticos, as características associadas a certas estruturas e variedades.********************************************************************The position of pronominal clitics in Brazilian Portuguese:the contribution of language perception investigationAbstract: This paper aims to bring evidence – from the comparative analysis of investigations about the order of pronominal clitics based on Variationist Sociolinguistics and Experimental Phonology (VIEIRA, 2002; CORRÊA, 2009; 2012) – of the contribution of studies that combine description of linguistic production and perception, aided by speech resynthesis. Associating methodologies, the researches show that it is possible to define (i) the phonological direction of the unstressed pronouns, to the right (like pretonic syllables) or to the left (like posttonic syllables); (ii) the acoustic parameters responsible for this direction; and, consequently, to specify, in sociophonetic terms, the characteristics which can be associated with certain structures and varieties.Keywords: Perception; Cliticization; Sociophonetics

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Spreafico, Lorenzo, and Alessandro Vietti. "The Sociophonetics of /r/ in Bozen: Modelling Linguistic and Social Variation." International Journal of Linguistics 8, no. 5 (October 4, 2016): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v8i5.9849.

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<p class="1">How do speakers reconstruct the boundaries of an allophonic system? In our paper, we address this question and examine how speakers organize into consistent groups of allophones the array of /r/-variants that are used in South-Tyrol Italian (STI). In addition, we discuss that this process of grouping is based on two intertwining sources of variation: the linguistic source and the socio-indexical source. We argue that the indexical dimension is not disconnected from the linguistic one, but it contributes in an essential way to its structuring.</p><p class="1">Our investigation is based on a sample of two thousand tokens of /r/. These occurrences are extracted from a corpus that includes the (semi)spontaneous productions of 14 Italian-German bilingual speakers. The analysis concerns the identification of possible relationships among the allophones with respect to (a) distributional, (b) stylistic and (c) biographical factors. Data are analyzed using a multivariate exploratory technique, namely the multiple correspondence analysis approach. The results clearly show how the aggregation of indexical and linguistic factors determines the emergence of two different allophonic subsystems, that is the Italian of Italian-dominant speakers (STI-i) and the Italian of German-dominant speakers (STI-d).</p>

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Fabricius, Anne, and Dominic Watt. "A new speaker‐intrinsic vowel formant frequency normalization algorithm for sociophonetics." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, no. 5 (May 2008): 3069. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2932834.

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Eckert, P., and R. J. Podesva. "SOCIOPHONETICS AND SEXUALITY: TOWARD A SYMBIOSIS OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND LABORATORY PHONOLOGY." American Speech 86, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 6–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1277465.

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Stanford, James N. "Gender, generations, and nations: An experiment in Hmong American discourse and sociophonetics." Language & Communication 30, no. 4 (October 2010): 285–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2010.05.002.

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Fabricius, Anne H., Dominic Watt, and Daniel Ezra Johnson. "A comparison of three speaker-intrinsic vowel formant frequency normalization algorithms for sociophonetics." Language Variation and Change 21, no. 3 (October 2009): 413–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394509990160.

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AbstractThis article evaluates a speaker-intrinsic vowel formant frequency normalization algorithm initially proposed in Watt & Fabricius (2002). We compare how well this routine, known as the S-centroid procedure, performs as a sociophonetic research tool in three ways: reducing variance in area ratios of vowel spaces (by attempting to equalize vowel space areas); improving overlap of vowel polygons; and reproducing relative positions of vowel means within the vowel space, compared with formant data in raw Hertz. The study uses existing data sets of vowel formant data from two varieties of English, Received Pronunciation and Aberdeen English (northeast Scotland). We conclude that, for the data examined here, the S-centroid W&F procedure performs at least as well as the two speaker-intrinsic, vowel-extrinsic, formant-intrinsic normalization methods rated as best performing by Adank (2003): Lobanov's (1971) z-score procedure and Nearey's (1978) individual log-mean procedure (CLIHi4 in Adank [2003], CLIHi2 as tested here), and in some test cases better than the latter.

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Seara, Izabel Christine, and Juan Manuel Sosa. "A identidade dialetal do “manezinho” com foco em características entonacionais." Letras de Hoje 52, no. 1 (June 21, 2017): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2017.1.25401.

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O falar “manezinho” é um dialeto não urbano do português brasileiro falado na Ilha de Santa Catarina que apresenta certas propriedades segmentais e suprassegmentais que o definem. Neste artigo, investigamos uma dessas propriedades suprassegmentais caracterizada pelo uso de um contorno declarativo particular, que exibe uma acentuada subida tonal até a sílaba tônica final, seguida por uma queda do tom alto para a parte inferior do registro do falante. Usamos dados provenientes do Projeto VARSUL como corpora de pesquisa, analisando esses dados a partir de uma metodologia da fonética experimental. Por meio de dois experimentos de percepção, mostramos que o contorno em questão, em notação autossegmental métrica (LH) ¡HL%, é reconhecido por um número muito significativo de ouvintes como sendo efetivamente o falar “manezinho”. As implicações para a sociofonética são os detalhes fonéticos quantitativos da queda tonal final, que dão a este contorno sua singularidade frente a outros dialetos.********************************************************************The "Manezinho" dialectal identity and its intonational featuresAbstract: "Manezinho" is a non-urban dialect of Brazilian Portuguese spoken in the Island of Santa Catarina, which has certain defining segmental and suprasegmental properties. This paper investigates one of these suprasegmental properties characterized by the use of a particular declarative contour, which shows a sharp tonal rise up to the final stressed syllable, followed by a drop from the high tone to the lower part of the speaker's range. We used datafrom the VARSUL Project as research corpus, analyzing these data with the methodology of experimental phonetics. By means of two perception tests, we show that the contour in question, in autosegmental-metrical notation (LH) ¡HL%, is recognized by a very significant number of listeners as being effectively “Manezinho”. The implications for sociophonetics are the quantitative phonetic details of the final tonal fall, which give this contour its uniquenessover other dialects.Keywords: Intonation; Brazilian Portuguese; “Manezinho”dialect; Sociophonetics

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Becker, Kara. "The social motivations of reversal: Raisedboughtin New York City English." Language in Society 43, no. 4 (August 13, 2014): 395–420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404514000372.

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AbstractThis article presents a variationist analysis of theboughtvowel in New York City English (NYCE) and finds that it has reversed the trajectory of change outlined in Labov (1966). An acoustic analysis of production data from sixty-four native residents of the Lower East Side demonstrates thatboughtis lowering in apparent time, a change led by young people, white and Jewish speakers, and the middle classes. A second source of data comes from perceptions of raisedboughtgathered from a matched guise experiment, which highlights an indexical field (Eckert 2008) of social meanings for raisedboughtthat comprise a ‘classic New Yorker’ persona: an older, white ethnic New Yorker from the outer boroughs who is mean and aloof. Taken together, the data suggest thatbought's reversal is motivated by its contemporary social meanings. (bought,New York City English, dialectology, variationism, sound change, social meaning, perception, sociophonetics)*

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D'Onofrio, Annette. "Personae and phonetic detail in sociolinguistic signs." Language in Society 47, no. 4 (June 28, 2018): 513–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404518000581.

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AbstractSocial meaning-based approaches to linguistic variation treat variation as a semiotic system, in which sociolinguistic signs—indexical links between linguistic forms and social meanings—serve as interactional resources that individuals use to project personae. This article explores the perceptual nature of the links between social personae and linguistic forms, examining how information about a speaker's persona can influence a listener's linguistic perceptions of a continuous phonetic feature. Using a phoneme categorization task, this study examines associations between gradient phonetic manifestations on a continuum from /æ/ to /ɑ/ and three social personae. Findings illustrate that the social persona made relevant for a listener influences the ways in which points on this phonetic continuum are categorized phonemically as eithertraporlot. Overall, this shows that the social constructs of personae influence phonetically detailed perceptions of linguistic material. (Sociolinguistic perception, personae, indexicality, sociophonetics, sociolinguistic signs)*

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Hay, Jennifer. "Sociophonetics: The Role of Words, the Role of Context, and the Role of Words in Context." Topics in Cognitive Science 10, no. 4 (March 2, 2018): 696–706. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.12326.

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Coombs Fine, Julia. "Performing graysexuality." Journal of Language and Sexuality 8, no. 1 (March 7, 2019): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.18003.coo.

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Abstract While recent work in sociophonetics has focused on the speech of gay men (Gaudio 1994; Podesva 2007; Podesva, Roberts & Campbell-Kibler 2002), lesbian women (Camp 2009; Van Borsel Vandaele & Corthals 2013), and transgender people (Zimman 2017a), the speech styles of asexual individuals remain understudied. This study analyzes an interview with a graysexual and homoromantic cisgender student at a research university in California, examining the segmental and prosodic characteristics of three voices he uses to construct and position his graysexual identity: a questioning voice, a judgmental voice, and a non-desiring voice. The analysis finds that the questioning voice is characterized by decreased speech rate, high F0, and modal phonation; the judgmental voice, by low F0; and the non-desiring voice, by low F0, narrow F0 range, low intensity, reduced gesture, flat facial expression, and a centralized vowel space. The results emphasize the importance of stylistic reticence to the construction of graysexuality.

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Stanford, James N. "Sociotonetics using connected speech." Asia-Pacific Language Variation 2, no. 1 (September 19, 2016): 48–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aplv.2.1.02sta.

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Abstract This is the first variationist sociotonetic study to use free-speech data for exploring tone. Due to the challenges of analyzing tone in free-speech data, prior work on sociotonetics has been limited to relatively formal speech styles: word lists, sentence frames, and phrase lists. But connected speech styles, including free speech and reading passages, are important for segmental sociophonetics and most other linguistic variables. Will free-speech data always be out of reach for sociotonetics? Can tone variation in connected speech data be normalized and meaningfully analyzed for sociolinguistic research questions? Using field data from the Sui language of China, this paper develops a practical approach for analyzing tone variation in connected speech data, and then applies it to a specific research question about dialect contact in exogamous Sui villages. Results show that some types of intra- and inter-speaker tone variation in connected speech can be effectively analyzed, although other types of tone variables are neutralized in this speech style.

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Calder, Jeremy. "The fierceness of fronted /s/: Linguistic rhematization through visual transformation." Language in Society 48, no. 1 (October 11, 2018): 31–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004740451800115x.

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AbstractThis article explores the roles that language and the body play in the iconization of cross-modal personae (see Agha 2003, 2004). Focusing on a community of radical drag queens in San Francisco, I analyze the interplay of visual presentation and acoustic dimensions of /s/ in the construction of the fierce queen persona, which embodies an extreme, larger-than-life, and anti-normative type of femininity. Taking data from transformations—conversations during which queens visually transform from male-presenting into their feminine drag personae—I explore the effect of fluid visual presentation on linguistic production, and argue that changes in both the linguistic and visual streams increasingly invoke qualia (see Gal 2013; Harkness 2015) projecting ‘harshness’ and ‘sharpness’ in the construction of fierce femininity. I argue that personae like the fierce queen become iconized through rhematization (see Gal 2013), a process in which qualic congruences are construed and constructed across multiple semiotic modalities. (Iconization, rhematization, qualia, sociophonetics, gender, personae, drag queens)*

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McGowan, Kevin B., and Anna M. Babel. "Perceiving isn't believing: Divergence in levels of sociolinguistic awareness." Language in Society 49, no. 2 (October 21, 2019): 231–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404519000782.

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AbstractThe influence of social knowledge on speech perception is a question of interest to a range of disciplines of language research. This study combines experimental and qualitative approaches to investigate whether the various methodological and disciplinary threads of research on this topic are truly investigating the same phenomenon to provide converging evidence in our understanding of social listening. This study investigates listeners’ perceptions of Spanish and Quechua speakers speaking Spanish in the context of a contact zone between these two languages and their speakers in central Bolivia. The results of a pair of matched-guise vowel discrimination tasks and subsequent interviews demonstrate that what people perceive, as measured by experimental tasks, is not necessarily what they believe they hear, as reported in narrative responses to interview prompts. Multiple methodological approaches must be employed in order to fully understand the way that we perceive language at diverging levels of sociolinguistic awareness. (Perception, sociophonetics, sociolinguistics, awareness, Andean Spanish)

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Liao, Xinyu. "A Sociophonetic Investigation of Chinese Gay Couples' Variability of Pitch Properties in Vlogs." International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics 8, no. 2 (June 2022): 79–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.2.326.

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Despite the accumulating body of research in sociophonetics exploring gay men’s pitch characteristics (i.e., mean vocal pitch and pitch range), previous studies usually investigate a uniform concept of ‘gay men’s speech’ by comparing heterosexual and gay men’s pitch properties. However, results were contesting and inconsistent across various studies regarding the pitch properties (pitch ranges or mean voice pitch) of gay men. Instead of treating gay men’s speech as a unified speaking style, this paper investigates the multiplicity of gay speaking styles by exploring the intra-group pitch variations among 20 pairs of Chinese gay couples in their self-shot videos. Specifically, the present study compares the pitch properties, including the mean vocal pitch, pitch range, and pitch variability, between those Chinese gay men who selfposition as ‘lao gong’ (husband) and those who self-identify as ‘lao po’ (wife) in their love vlogs (video blogs). These videos normally last from 5 to 10 minutes on a Chinese online video sharing platform - ‘Bilibili.’ After dividing these gay couples’ utterances into intonational phrases, I used the speech analysis software named Praat to measure the average pitch, pitch range (the maximum pitch value minus minimum pitch value), and pitch variability (the standard deviation of pitch values) on each intonational phrase. Compared with those ‘gay husbands,’ results showed that those ‘gay wives’ would speak with higherpitched voices (p < 0.05), wider pitch ranges (p < 0.0001), and more variable pitch values (p < 0.0001). When locating the discourse functions of these pitch characteristics in their vlogs, I argue that those ‘gay wives’ frequently utilize the so-called ‘pitch dynamism’ to construct an expressive and cute ‘wife’ persona in intimate discourse.

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Kim, Chaeyoon, Sravana Reddy, James N. Stanford, Ezra Wyschogrod, and Jack Grieve. "Bring on the Crowd! Using Online Audio Crowd-Sourcing for Large-Scale New England Dialectology and Acoustic Sociophonetics." American Speech 94, no. 2 (May 1, 2019): 151–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-7251252.

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Dodsworth, Robin, and Richard A. Benton. "Social network cohesion and the retreat from Southern vowels in Raleigh." Language in Society 46, no. 3 (May 3, 2017): 371–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404517000185.

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AbstractNetwork research in sociolinguistics suggests that integration in a local community network promotes speakers' retention of local linguistic variants in the context of pressure from external or standard dialects. In most sociolinguistic network research, a speaker is assigned a single score along an index representing the aggregate of several network and other social features. We propose that contemporary network methods in adjacent disciplines can profitably apply to sociolinguistics, thereby facilitating not only more generalizable quantitative analysis but also new questions about therelationalnature of linguistic variables. Two network analysis methods—cohesive blocking and Quadratic Assignment Procedure regression—are used to evaluate the social network factors shaping the retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS) in Raleigh, North Carolina. The data come from a 160-speaker subset of a conversational corpus. Significant network effects indicate that network proximity to Raleigh's urban core promotes retention of SVS features, and that network similarity between speakers corresponds to linguistic similarity. Contemporary social-network methods can contribute to linguistic analysis by providing a holistic picture of the community's structure. (Networks, sociophonetics, Southern Vowel Shift, dialect contact)*

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Anders, Christina Ada. "Dennis R. Preston & Nancy Niedzielski (Hg.). A Reader in Sociophonetics. Thomas Krefeld & Elissa Pustka (Hg.). Perzeptive Varietätenlinguistik." Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 4, no. 2 (October 2012): 197–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrs-2012-0039.

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Jacewicz, Ewa, Robert A. Fox, Caitlin O'Neill, and Joseph Salmons. "Articulation rate across dialect, age, and gender." Language Variation and Change 21, no. 2 (July 2009): 233–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394509990093.

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AbstractWhether some languages or dialects are spoken faster or slower than others constitutes a gap in the understanding of sociolinguistic variation. Speech tempo is interconnected with the social, physical and psychological marking of speech. This study examines regional variation in articulation rate and its manifestations across speaker age, gender, and speaking situations (reading vs. informal talk). The results of an experimental investigation show that articulation rate differs significantly between two regional varieties of American English examined here. A group of Northern speakers (from Wisconsin) spoke significantly faster than a group of Southern speakers (from North Carolina). With regard to age and gender, young adults read faster than older adults in both regions; in informal talks, however, only Northern young adults spoke faster than older adults. Effects of gender were smaller and less consistent; men generally spoke slightly faster than women did. As the body of work on the sociophonetics of American English continues to grow in scope and depth, we argue that it is important to include fundamental phonetic information as part of our catalog of regional differences and patterns of change in American English.

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Flynn, Nicholas. "ERIK R. THOMAS, Sociophonetics: An introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xiv + 356. ISBN: 978-0-230-22456-8 (pbk)." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 41, no. 3 (November 11, 2011): 371–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100311000363.

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Abryutina, Anna, and Anna Ponomareva. "German-English Interference in the Field of Vocalism (Based on the Speech of Germans who Study English as a Foreign Language)." Izvestia of Smolensk State University, no. 1 (53) (April 12, 2021): 128–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2021-53-1-128-143.

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The growing popularity of contrastive phonology as a branch of linguis-tics is seen now, in particular, due to the spread of bilingualism and multilin-gualism. Globalization involves the ability to speak several languages, in the study of which the phonetic level is primarily considered. The purpose of this work is to examine and describe the most likely consequences arising from in-terference in the articulation of vowel sounds in the English-language speech of Germans who study English as a foreign language. The article deals with monophthongs, diphthongs, and triphthongs, dis-cusses possible variations in the articulation of sounds, as well as the processes of reduction, elision, and substitution. Descriptive and comparative methods are the leading ones in the work, however, the instrumental method is also used to determine deviations from the norm and the nature of changes in articulation. The paper identifies a number of trends in the articulation of English sounds by Germans and reveals the reasons of the main difficulties which stu-dents face while studying phonetic norms of RP and speaking German as their native language, i.e. the qualitative and quantitative mismatch of allophones. The achievement of this goal testifies to the theoretical significance of this work, namely, the possibility of further detailed research in the field of sociophonetics and phonostylistics.

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Baranovska, Lilia, and Alla Zasluzhena. "Content Peculiarities of Bachelors’ in English Language and Literature Training at Universities of Switzerland Confederation." Comparative Professional Pedagogy 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 46–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rpp-2015-0020.

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Abstract The article is devoted to the content-analysis of peculiarities of Bachelors’ in the English language and literature training at Swiss universities. It has been revealed that domestic scientists have not paid special attention to this problem as the issues of future teachers’ training and future foreign languages teachers’ training in foreign universities, in particular in Germany, USA, Finland, Mexico, Great Britain, Hungary and Japan have been more studied. The study of curricula at Swiss universities under conditions of credit-modular organization of educational process, which affects the structure of the content, choice of forms and methods of teaching and assessing students' academic achievements has allowed us to conclude that the student learning is based on the multicultural, competent and communicative approaches. English language learning in the context of general linguistic picture of the world, its style and dialect importance is content particularity of this training. The communicative aspect of English study by Bachelors first appears in content acquirement of subjects “Exploring Sociolinguistics”, “Sociophonetics”. English is taught in the context of its understanding as a means of interaction under conditions of educational and cultural integration of the nations and a means of constructive polylogue in the country, that represents multicultural vector of bachelors’ training in philology. The experience of Swiss universities can be adopted by native universities to create a multicultural and communicative personality of a future philologist.

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Arantes, Pablo, and Maria Érica Do Nascimento Linhares. "Efeito da língua, estilo de elocução e sexo do falante sobre medidas globais da frequência fundamental." Letras de Hoje 52, no. 1 (June 21, 2017): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2017.1.25419.

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Analisamos o efeito do sexo, do estilo de elocução e da língua (alemão, estoniano, francês, inglês, italiano, português e sueco) sobre estimadores de tendência central e dispersão da frequência fundamental da fala. Os estilos são entrevista, leitura de frases e de palavras. As línguas diferem entre si em termos do valor típico de F0 usado por seus falantes. O estilo leitura de frases apresenta valores maiores do que a entrevista, mas o efeito não é uniforme entre as línguas. Diferenças significativas entre o estilo leitura de palavras e entrevista são mais raros. Todos os estimadores de tendência central estudados sofreram efeitos dos três fatores testados. Os homens apresentaram variabilidade de F0 ligeiramente maior do que as mulheres de forma significativa em três de cinco estimadores. O estilo entrevista tem maior variabilidade em dois. As línguas não diferem em termos de variabilidade de F0.********************************************************************Effect of language, speaking style and speaker sex on global measures of fundamental frequencyWe analyze the effect of speaker sex, speaking style and language (English, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish) on global statistical measures of the voice fundamental frequency. The styles studied are interview, sentence reading and word list reading. Typical F0 values used by speakers among languages differ both in male and female speakers. Sentence reading has slightly higher values than interview, but the effect is not uniform among languages. In few cases word reading and interview values differ significantly. All central tendency estimators are affected by the variables tested. Three out of five estimators of dispersion show slightly higher values for male than for female speakers. Among styles, the interview has higher standard deviation and coefficient of variation. Languages do not differ among themselves in terms of F0 variability.Keywords: Fundamental frequency; Acoustic phonetics; Speaking styles; Sociophonetics

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Dalola, Amanda, and Barbara E. Bullock. "ON SOCIOPHONETIC COMPETENCE." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 39, no. 4 (September 23, 2016): 769–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263116000309.

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The data from this study investigate phrase-final vowel devoicing in Metropolitan French among L1 and L2 speakers, in terms of number of times a speaker devoices a phrase-final high vowel and percentage of the vowel that is devoiced. The goal is to assess whether experienced L2 speakers use style-based variation in response to the same factors as native speakers. Results from a set of role playing and word list tasks revealed that L2 devoicing rates matched those of the natives, but were conditioned by different factors in each group. The duration of L2 speaker devoicing, however, was found not to match native levels. Notable differences emerged in response to shifts in style: L1 speakers showed higher rates and enhanced degrees of devoicing in pragmatic contexts that favored either slower or more formal speech, while L2 speakers responded very little to pragmatic shifts within role plays, instead responding more pronouncedly to different tasks.

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Jannedy, Stefanie, and Jennifer Hay. "Modelling sociophonetic variation." Journal of Phonetics 34, no. 4 (October 2006): 405–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2006.08.001.

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Peres, Daniel Oliveira. "A identificação das variedades regionais do português brasileiro através da informação entoacional." Letras de Hoje 52, no. 1 (June 21, 2017): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2017.1.25408.

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Este estudo tem como objetivo verificar se falantes do português brasileiro são capazes de reconhecer suas próprias variedades regionais a partir das informações entoacionais. Além disso, também pretende procurar pistas nas variações de F0 que possam justificar o desempenho dos participantes. Os dois experimentos realizados neste trabalho foram feitos com base em três variedades do Português Brasileiro: a variedade de Pelotas (RS), São Paulo (bairro da Mooca) e Senador Pompeu (CE). O experimento 1 foi desenvolvido com estímulos de fala delexicalizada, e.g., com apenas as informações entoacionais; o experimento 2 apresentou estímulos de fala sem variação de F0, e.g., apenas com a curva melódica monotônica. Os resultados obtidos através da Teoria de Detecção (MACMILLAN; CREELMAN, 2005) mostraram que os participantes tiveram um desempenho significativo. Os resultados obtidos nos dois experimentos foram diferentes, pois houve mais dificuldade de reconhecimento no experimento com estímulos delexicalizados. A tendência dos alarmes falsos também mostrou que a informação entoacional desempenha um papel importante no reconhecimento de variedades regionais.********************************************************************The identification of Brazilian Portuguese regional varieties through intonational informationThis study aims to verify if Brazilian Portuguese speakers are able to recognize their own regional varieties only by listening to the intonational information. It also aims to search for cues in F0 variation, which can justify the performance of the participants. The two experiments conducted in this study deal with three varieties of Brazilian Portuguese: the variety of Pelotas (RS), São Paulo (Mooca district) and Senador Pompeu (CE). Experiment 1 was developed with delexicalised speech stimuli, e.g., intonational information only; experiment 2 presented stimuli with a flat melodic curve only, e.g., with no F0 variations. The results based on the Detection Theory (MACMILLAN; CREELMAN, 2005) showed that the participants had a performance above chance. The results obtained in both experiments were different as we observed more recognition difficulties in the experiment with delexicalized stimuli. The tendency of false alarms also showed that intonational information plays an important role in the recognition of regional varieties.Keywords: Sociophonetics; Speech perception; Intonation; Brazilian Portuguese

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Walker, Abby. "ChiaraCelata and SilviaCalamai (eds.). Advances in Sociophonetics (Studies in Language Variation 15). Amsterdam, The Netherlands/Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2014. xi + 214 pp. Hb (9789027234957) €99.00/US$149.00." Journal of Sociolinguistics 19, no. 4 (September 2015): 567–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12150.

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Solon, Megan, Bret Linford, and Kimberly L. Geeslin. "Acquisition of sociophonetic variation." Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 31, no. 1 (August 27, 2018): 309–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/resla.16028.sol.

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Abstract This study investigates the acquisition of nativelike variation in the production of Spanish /d/ by English-speaking learners. Specifically, we examine the production of /d/ in word-internal intervocalic position in the speech of 13 highly advanced nonnative speakers (NNSs) and 13 native speakers (NSs) of Spanish in digitally-recorded sociolinguistic interviews. The analysis includes a discrete categorization of /d/ realization based on spectrographic examination (stop vs. spirant vs. deleted) and a continuous intensity difference measure. Tokens were coded for grammatical category, surrounding segments, stress, number of syllables, and lexical frequency. Results indicate that both NNSs and NSs exhibit /d/ spirantization and deletion, but these two processes are affected by different factors both between and across groups: NNS deletion patterns are predicted most significantly by lexical frequency, whereas degree of spirantization is influenced by articulatory/contextual factors of phonetic context and stress. NS patterns for both processes are influenced by most factors in a similar manner.

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Seara, Izabel Christine, and Maria Luiza Chaves. "Estudo sociofonético dos róticos no Vale de Itajaí em Santa Catarina / Sociophonetic Study of the Rhotics in the Itajaí Valley in Santa Catarina." Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos 26, no. 2 (September 17, 2021): 240. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2238-3824.26.2.240-265.

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Resumo: Este estudo, sob o olhar da Sociofonética, apresenta uma análise acústica das variantes dos sons de r-forte na fala de descendentes italianos da cidade de Rio do Sul, Alto Vale do Itajaí - SC. Nessa região, encontramos a variante tepe ([ɾ]), como uma das possibilidades de produção nesse contexto. Participaram da pesquisa seis representantes da comunidade, divididos em três faixas etárias: 20-50, 51-70 e acima de 70, do sexo feminino e masculino, que narraram suas histórias de vida em entrevistas de fala semiespontânea. O corpus foi formado por 147 itens lexicais que apresentavam as variantes de róticos em onset silábico inicial ou medial de palavra. Com base nos resultados acústicos, foi verificada a gradiência dos dados e foi constatado que os descendentes italianos da comunidade estudada produzem, como r-forte, diferentes variantes, além do tepe ([ɾ]). Fatores, como idade, identidade e região de origem, parecem influenciar na variedade de róticos produzidos. Foi observada uma diminuição na produção do tepe na dimensão diageracional, o que aponta para um estudo em tempo aparente.Palavras-chave: róticos; Alto Vale do Itajaí (SC); variação; Sociofonética.Abstract: This study, under the perspective of Sociofonética, presents an acoustic analysis of the variants of the sounds of r-forte in the speech of Italian descendants of the city of Rio do Sul, Alto Vale do Itajaí - SC. In this region, we find the variant tepe ([ɾ]), as one of the production possibilities in this context. Six community representatives participated in the research, divided into three age groups: 20-50, 51-70 and over 70, female and male, who narrated their life stories in semi-spontaneous speech interviews. The corpus was formed by 147 lexical items that presented the rhotic variants in initial or medial syllabic onset of the word. Based on the acoustic results, the gradient of the data was verified and the hypothesis was confirmed that the Italian descendants of the studied community produce, as r-forte, different variants, in addition to the tepe ([ɾ]). Factors, such as age, identity and region of origin, seem to influence the variety of rotics produced. A decrease in the production of tepe in the diagerational dimension was observed, which points to a study in apparent time.Keywords: rothics (R-sounds); Alto Vale do Itajaí (SC); Variation; Sociophonetics.

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Goncharova, Oksana Vladimirovna. "SOCIOPHONETIC DIRECTION IN FOREIGN LINGUISTICS." Philological Sciences. Issues of Theory and Practice, no. 7-1 (July 2018): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2018-7-1.27.

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Henton, Caroline G. "Creak as a sociophonetic marker." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 80, S1 (December 1986): S50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2023837.

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Drager, Katie K. "Sociophonetic variation and the lemma." Journal of Phonetics 39, no. 4 (October 2011): 694–707. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2011.08.005.

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Henton, Caroline G. "Sociophonetic aspects of creaky voice." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 86, S1 (November 1989): S26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2027434.

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Drager, Katie. "Sociophonetic Variation in Speech Perception." Language and Linguistics Compass 4, no. 7 (July 2010): 473–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2010.00210.x.

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