Changing words or changing rules? Second dialect acquisition and phonological representation

Nycz, Jennifer

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2012.12.014

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“…She argues that this is because the dress difference is large in the two varieties, but—unlike the also very different kit vowel—is a difference below the level of consciousness. This mirrors arguments made in the second dialect acquisition literature (Sankoff, 2004 ; Nycz, 2013 ). However, it is worth noting that in related work on dialect priming, Drager et al ( 2010 ) found that priming Australia caused New Zealand speakers to shift their kit vowel toward Australian English, but not trap or dress .…”

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Repeat what after whom? Exploring variable selectivity in a cross-dialectal shadowing task

Walker

Campbell‐Kibler

2015

Front. Psychol.

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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 Zealand, Australia, U.S. Inland North and U.S. Midland. The resulting utterances were acoustically analyzed, and presented to listeners on Amazon Mechanical Turk in an AXB task. Convergence is observed, but differs depending on the dialect of the speaker, the dialect of the model, the particular word class being shadowed, and the order in which dialects are presented to participants. We argue that these patterns are generally consistent with findings that convergence is promoted by a large phonetic distance between shadower and model (Babel, 2010, contra Kim et al., 2011), and greater existing variability in a vowel class (Babel, 2012). The results also suggest that more comparisons of accommodation toward different dialects are warranted, and that the investigation of the socio-indexical meaning of specific linguistic forms in context is a promising avenue for understanding variable selectivity in convergence.

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Repeat what after whom? Exploring variable selectivity in a cross-dialectal shadowing task

Walker

Campbell‐Kibler

2015

Front. Psychol.

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“…Other studies more explicitly emphasize the role of social meaning, discussing how the use of both D1 and D2 features can be affected by speaker identity, attitude, and topic. Nycz (, ) analyzed Canadian Raising in pre‐voiceless (aw) and the structure of the low back vowel system in seventeen Canadians who moved as adults to New York City and nearby towns in New Jersey. The majority of speakers exhibited phonetically and lexically gradient change towards the D2 low back vowel system, producing a small but statistically significant distinction between words like cot and caught .…”

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“…Nycz , Johnson and Nycz ). More generally, SDA work potentially speaks to many issues of interest in (socio)phonetics and phonology, such as the relationship between change in production and change in perception (Evans and Iverson , Ziliak ), the mechanisms and representations that underlie change (Bigham , Nycz 2013), and social/attitudinal factors that affect language use (Foreman , Walker ).…”

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“…While some of the work reviewed here has made passing mention of place identity as a factor in SDA (e.g. Sankoff , Bigham , Nycz), future SDA studies could build on the growing literature on language and place (e.g. Johnstone and Kiesling ; Becker ; Nylund , Grieser ) by examining the ways in which mobile speakers use variants associated with D1 and D2 to construct multiple place identities.…”

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Second Dialect Acquisition: A Sociophonetic Perspective

Nycz

2015

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Many people change aspects of their accent after moving to a new region. What kinds of changes are made, and why does it matter? Studies of second dialect acquisition (SDA) indicate that geographically mobile speakers change specific dialect features in ways that ref lect the complex interaction of linguistic, social, and developmental factors in language use. This article reviews these findings from a sociophonetic perspective, paying particular attention to their theoretical implications, the methodological issues associated with studying SDA, and avenues for future research.

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“…Second dialect acquisition (SDA) can potentially occur whenever one interacts with members of a different social group who speak a different way. Often, the new dialect is a regional variety of a speaker's first language (L1), encountered as a result of mobility; for example, native speakers of Canadian English acquiring Southern Standard British English in Oxfordshire, England (Chambers, 1992), or New York City English in Manhattan (Nycz, 2013). However, speakers may also be exposed to new dialects of an L2 (Drummond, 2013) or to dialects associated with different ethnic groups or social classes (Fix 2014;Hazen, 2001;Siegel 2010).…”

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Media and Second Dialect Acquisition

Nycz

2019

Ann Rev Appl Linguist

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This article addresses the role that different types of media might play in second dialect acquisition. While many scholars agree that broadcast media such as television have little effect on individual speakers’ language use, research across fields (sociolinguistics, second language learning, laboratory phonology, and phonetics) suggests that high levels of engagement could facilitate dialect learning via mediated speech. I will briefly describe the mechanisms underlying acquisition of new dialect features, discuss how these mechanisms might operate when speakers are exposed to speech via specific types of media, and sketch some avenues for future research.

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Changing words or changing rules? Second dialect acquisition and phonological representation

Cited by 61 publications

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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

Second Dialect Acquisition: A Sociophonetic Perspective

Media and Second Dialect Acquisition

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