“Not from a ‘Danish’ home; typical of trying to sound ‘tough’” – Indexical meanings of variation in /s/ and /t/ in the speech of adolescent girls in Copenhagen / “Não é de família dinamarquesa; mas é típico de tentar parecer ‘durona’” – Significados indiciais das variáveis /s/ e /t/ na fala de meninas adolescentes em Copenhague
Abstract:The aim of this article is to examine the social meaning of /s/- and /t/-variation for Copenhagen girls in two different registers. The examined features consist of [s] and [tˢ], which are considered the standard variants, and [s+] and [tʲ] which carry different social connotations. Both variables are examined in the registers modern Copenhagen speech and street language in two different matched guise experiments. Stimuli for both experiments consist of segmentally manipulated natural speech, and experiment 1 … Show more
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