Abstract:Most theories of phonetics assume a tight relation between production and perception, and recent years have also seen increasing evidence for such a relation at the level of the individual. For the most part, however, this evidence comes from socially homogeneous speech communities where the targeted pattern of variation is mostly socially neutral. What implication might socially structured phonetic variation in the speech community have for the perception-production link? If listeners can predict the phonetic… Show more
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