New Perspectives on African American Language Through Public Corpora

Kendall, Tyler

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“…In addition to questions about syntactic/semantic and phonological properties of the been-types (1, 2, and 3), questions about the extent to which all of these markers occur in speakers' grammars and what social factors influence the occurrence and distribution of these markers remain unanswered. As research with AAE corpora increases (Kendall, 2019), and as more different methods in addition to the sociolinguistic interview are being used to collect data from AAE-speaking communities, we will move closer to answers to these questions. Previous research on BIN has addressed questions about meaning, origin, and perception of the marker.…”

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Range in the Use and Realization of BIN in African American English

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Neal

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This paper jointly considers syntactic, semantic, and phonological/phonetic factors in approaching an understanding of BIN, a remote past marker in African American English that has been described as “stressed.” It brings together data from the Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL) and a production study in a small African American English-speaking community in southwest Louisiana to investigate the use and phonetic realization of BIN constructions. Only 20 instances of BIN constructions were found in CORAAL. This sparsity was not simply due to a dearth of semantic contexts for BIN in the interviews, since 122 instances of semantically equivalent been + temporal adverbial variants were also found. These results raise questions about the extent to which BIN constructions and been + temporal adverbial variants are used in different pragmatic and discourse contexts as well as in different speech styles. The production study elicited BIN and past participle been constructions in controlled syntactic and semantic environments. The phonetic realization of BIN was found to be distributed over the entire utterance rather than localized to BIN. BIN utterances were distinguished from past participle been utterances by having higher ratios of fundamental frequency (F0), intensity, and duration in BIN/ been relative to preceding and following material in the utterance. In both studies, BIN utterances were generally realized with a high F0 peak on BIN and a reduced F0 range in the post- BIN region, with variability in the presence and kinds of F0 movements utterance-initially and utterance-finally, as well as in F0 downtrends in the post- BIN region.

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Range in the Use and Realization of BIN in African American English

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Towards Methodological and Theoretical Synergies between Forensic Phonetics and Third Wave Sociophonetics

Fairclough

2023

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This article presents an overview of third wave sociophonetics and forensic phonetics, aiming to point out areas of methodological and conceptual crossover, as well as discussing the prospects for applying third wave sociophonetic methods and concepts to forensic-based research and vice versa. By finding links between previous studies in the two disciplines, suggestions for collaboration are discussed, alongside relevant concerns surrounding the ethical implications of such work. Themes are also raised regarding the difference between forensic phonetic research and forensic casework, while emerging trends in both fields are presented in relation to the potential for collaboration and prospective evolution. The discussion also considers points of caution in relation to the use of sociophonetic data in forensic phonetic research. This work opens a conversation for third wave approaches in sociophonetics to be applied in forensic research and casework, while also presenting ways to bridge the gap between sociophonetic and forensic research.

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New Perspectives on African American Language Through Public Corpora

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Range in the Use and Realization of BIN in African American English

Range in the Use and Realization of BIN in African American English

Towards Methodological and Theoretical Synergies between Forensic Phonetics and Third Wave Sociophonetics

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