Sociophonetic variation and the lemma

Drager, Katie

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2011.08.005

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“…I discuss the results within the context of theories of identity construction and consider the possibility that colloquial words can serve as loci for socially-meaningful phonetic variation. The work presented in Chapter 3 can be found in article-form in Drager (2011a).…”

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Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition

K.¹

2015

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Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition

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2015

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“…Drager, 2011; Kohn and Farrington, 2012; Alam and Stuart-Smith, 2014; Li et al, 2016, among many others). This leads to potentially large pools of more or less fluent socially-motivated variation, as boys and girls negotiate gender-specific, group-specific, cohort-specific, or even clique-specific pronunciation habits that will continue to evolve even as they grow into adolescents who must further adjust their speech motor habits to the physiological changes to the vocal tract and glottis that are associated with hormonal changes at puberty.…”

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Methods for eliciting, annotating, and analyzing databases for child speech development

Beckman

Plummer

Munson

et al. 2017

Computer Speech & Language

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Methods from automatic speech recognition (ASR), such as segmentation and forced alignment, have facilitated the rapid annotation and analysis of very large adult speech databases and databases of caregiver-infant interaction, enabling advances in speech science that were unimaginable just a few decades ago. This paper centers on two main problems that must be addressed in order to have analogous resources for developing and exploiting databases of young children's speech. The first problem is to understand and appreciate the differences between adult and child speech that cause ASR models developed for adult speech to fail when applied to child speech. These differences include the fact that children's vocal tracts are smaller than those of adult males and also changing rapidly in size and shape over the course of development, leading to between-talker variability across age groups that dwarfs the between-talker differences between adult men and women. Moreover, children do not achieve fully adult-like speech motor control until they are young adults, and their vocabularies and phonological proficiency are developing as well, leading to considerably more within-talker variability as well as more between-talker variability. The second problem then is to determine what annotation schemas and analysis techniques can most usefully capture relevant aspects of this variability. Indeed, standard acoustic characterizations applied to child speech reveal that adult-centered annotation schemas fail to capture phenomena such as the emergence of covert contrasts in children's developing phonological systems, while also revealing children's nonuniform progression toward community speech norms as they acquire the phonological systems of their native languages. Both problems point to the need for more basic research into the growth and development of the articulatory system (as well as of the lexicon and phonological system) that is oriented explicitly toward the construction of age-appropriate computational models.

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“…The fact that the different functions of like participate in different variable systems means that standard variationist methodology requires treating them separately. For instance, Ferrara & Bell (1995) state, in discussing the quotative like, that the discourse particle like belongs to "an altogether different variable" and therefore "is not the subject of this study" (emphasis theirs); D' Arcy (2005:29), in discussing the discourse particle, states that "quotative be like forms no part of this investigation". A typical variationist study of like is thus careful to circumscribe the variable context at issue, establish if possible which other variants compete with like in this particular variable context, and dismiss the other potential functions of like as not directly relevant to the constraints on variation affecting the like under discussion.…”

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Variant-centered variation and the like conspiracy

Dinkin¹

2016

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The conventional methodology of variationist linguistics foregrounds the variable as the object of study: each variant is situated in the envelope of variation against the other variants it competes with. This paper argues that it is necessary to look beyond the context of the alternations a variant participates in in order to get a full picture of the factors affecting variation. The multi-functional variantlikeis used as a case study to illustrate the value of a variant-centered analysis: the fact that several distinct variables are all simultaneously changing toward the variantlikesuggests that a variant can be targeted for change across multiple variables, parallelling Campbell-Kibler (2011)’s model of the variant as the carrier of sociolinguistic meaning. It is conjectured that the set of changes towardlikecan be explained as a top-down discursive change targetinglikeas an indicator of vague literality, a function it retains in multiple distinct variable contexts.

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Sociophonetic variation and the lemma

Cited by 45 publications

References 34 publications

Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition

Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition

Methods for eliciting, annotating, and analyzing databases for child speech development

Variant-centered variation and the like conspiracy

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