Overlap among back vowels before /l/ in Kansas City

Strelluf, Christopher

doi:10.1017/s0954394516000144

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“…Single-vowel results were submitted to two complementary analyses aiming at computing the degree of overlap in vocalic spaces in each group. The first analysis computes the Bhattacharyya affinity scores, following Johnson (2015) and Strelluf (2016). The Bhattacharyya's affinity measures the degree of overlap between two Gaussian distributions (Mak Brian 1996) and is considered to be less sensitive than other approaches when there are imbalances in the sample (Strelluf 2016), which is the case in both tasks but particularly in the narrative.…”

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A Phonetic Account of Spanish-English Bilinguals’ Divergence with Agreement

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Does bilingual language influence in the domain of phonetics impact the morphosyntactic domain? Spanish gender is encoded by word-final, unstressed vowels (/a e o/), which may diphthongize in word-boundary vowel sequences. English neutralizes unstressed final vowels and separates across-word vocalic sequences. The realization of gender vowels as schwa, due to cross-linguistic influence, may remain undetected if not directly analyzed. To explore the potential over-reporting of gender accuracy, we conducted parallel phonetic and morphosyntactic analyses of read and semi-spontaneous speech produced by 11 Monolingual speakers and 13 Early and 13 Late Spanish-English bilinguals. F1 and F2 values were extracted at five points for all word-final unstressed vowels and vowel sequences. All determiner phrases (DPs) from narratives were coded for morphological and contextual parameters. Early bilinguals exhibited clear patterns of vowel centralization and higher rates of hiatuses than the other groups. However, the morphological analysis yielded very few errors. A follow-up integrated analysis revealed that /a and o/ were realized as centralized vowels, particularly with [+Animate] nouns. We propose that bilinguals’ schwa-like realizations can be over-interpreted as target Spanish vowels. Such variable vowel realization may be a factor in the vulnerability to attrition in gender marking in Spanish as a heritage language.

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A Phonetic Account of Spanish-English Bilinguals’ Divergence with Agreement

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“…Because of its long history as a colonial language (Kachru, 1990), English is now used around the world by diverse national communities. In spite of the global character of English, dialectology and sociolinguistics continue to focus largely on sub-national dialects of En-glish within so-called inner-circle varieties (for example, Labov, et al, 2016;Strelluf, 2016;Schreier, 2016;Clark & Watson, 2016). This paper joins recent work in taking a global approach by using geo-referenced texts to represent national varieties (e.g., Dunn, 2018c;Tamaredo, 2018;Calle-Martin & Romero-Barranco, 2017;Szmrecsanyi, et al, 2016;Sanders, 2010Sanders, , 2007c.f., Davies & Fuchs, 2015).…”

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Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in

Dunn¹

2019

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop On

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This paper evaluates global-scale dialect identification for 14 national varieties of English as a means for studying syntactic variation. The paper makes three main contributions: (i) introducing data-driven language mapping as a method for selecting the inventory of national varieties to include in the task; (ii) producing a large and dynamic set of syntactic features using grammar induction rather than focusing on a few hand-selected features such as function words; and (iii) comparing models across both web corpora and social media corpora in order to measure the robustness of syntactic variation across registers.

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“…Bhattacharyya's Affinity measures overlap between two cohorts in a two-dimensional space, which makes it an ideal measurement for F1/F2 vowel distributions. Recent studies by Strelluf (2016Strelluf ( , 2018, Stanley & Renwick (2016) and Warren (2018) use this measurement for overlap in vowel mergers.…”

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foot-fronting andfoot–strutsplitting: vowel variation in the East Midlands

Jansen¹,

Braber²

2020

English Language and Linguistics

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This article investigates the status of the foot–strut split in the counties of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. The East Midlands area is a linguistic transition zone between northern English varieties with a phoneme inventory of five short vowels, where foot and strut are represented by the same phoneme, and southern English varieties which have the foot–strut split and therefore six short vowels. However, a lack of research on the distribution of the foot and strut vowels in the East Midlands exists and to fill that gap, this article examines the possible diffusion of the split northwards as predicted by Trudgill (1986). Reading-passage data, stratified by age group, sex and location is used to provide an apparent time, multilocal view on the distribution of the two vowel categories. Surprisingly, the changes that we notice do not concern the increasing distance between foot and strut but mainly foot-fronting in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire and strut-retraction in Derbyshire which leads to an increase in overlap between foot and strut in all three counties.

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Overlap among back vowels before /l/ in Kansas City

Cited by 15 publications

References 29 publications

A Phonetic Account of Spanish-English Bilinguals’ Divergence with Agreement

A Phonetic Account of Spanish-English Bilinguals’ Divergence with Agreement

Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in

foot-fronting andfoot–strutsplitting: vowel variation in the East Midlands

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