Sociophonetics

Foulkes, Paul; Scobbie, James M.; Watt, Dominic

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“…It has been widely shown that listeners make use of linguistic cues to inform knowledge of a speaker's social or regional background, suggesting a close relationship between linguistic and indexical information (see e.g., Foulkes, Scobbie, & Watt, 2010;Thomas, 2002 for reviews). There is also evidence that this relationship is bidirectional, with indexical information also able to influence speech perception.…”

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Can kiwis and koalas as cultural primes induce perceptual bias in Australian English speaking listeners?

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2019

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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The presence of culturally significant objects has been shown to induce biases in speech perception consistent with features of the dialect relevant to the object. Questions remain about the transferability of this effect to different dialect contexts, and the efficacy of the task in inducing the effect. This paper details an Australian-context experiment modelled on Hay and Drager's (2010) New Zealand-context stuffed toy study. Seventy-five listeners heard spoken Australian English (AusE) phrases with phrase-final monosyllabic words containing either kit, dress, or trap vowels. Each phrase was followed by audio presentation of a six-step synthesized vowel continuum, from New Zealand English (NZE)-like to exaggerated AusE-like tokens. Listeners attempted to match one of the synthesized variants to the speaker's realization of the target vowel. Listeners were exposed to one of two priming conditions, established by stuffed toy kiwis (New Zealand) and stuffed toy koalas (Australia), or a control condition (no toy). Contrary to Hay and Drager (2010), token selections did not differ significantly between the New Zealand and Australian priming conditions. However, reversing the order of continuum presentation did significantly affect token selection for kit vowels, raising questions about the task design itself. Results suggest that the influence of regional primes on speech perception may be more limited than previously thought.

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Can kiwis and koalas as cultural primes induce perceptual bias in Australian English speaking listeners?

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Szakay

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2019

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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“…The sentences were randomized such that no two consecutive sentences contained target words that shared either the fricative in question (/f/ or /x/) or the vowel that followed it. I constructed sentences instead of simple word lists for three reasons, the first being the resultant naturalness of the speech, as speakers tend to self-monitor and thus provide less naturalistic speech when reading isolated words in list format (Bayley 2002, Foulkes, Scobbie andWatt 2010). Second, embedding the target words in sentence-length contexts allowed me to avoid fillers since the participants would have no reasonable way of determining which word (or words) were indeed the desired targets in each sentence.…”

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An optimality theoretic typology of three fricative-vowel assimilations in Latin American Spanish

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invaluable intellectual, emotional and financial support from countless sources, many of whom I will unintentionally neglect to mention in what follows. First and foremost, this dissertation-and my having survived college in general-would not have been possible without my advisor and mentor Paula Kempchinsky. My research benefited greatly from her comments, suggestions and probing questions, and when I struggled to find answers (or justify to myself why I chose to stay in graduate school), her constant reassurance sustained me throughout this difficult process. (I would also be remiss if I did not, at this point, thank her for her keen editorial eye.) When the University of Iowa was without a Spanish phonologist, Paula assumed the unenviable role of temporary thesis co-director until I had the privilege of meeting Christine Shea, my eventual permanent co-director, whose numerous consultations, brainstorming sessions and e-mails on everything from phonetics to alternative theoretical approaches turned a limited OT analysis into (what I hope is) the multifaceted dissertation before you. I thank her for adopting this phonological orphan. I met Jerzy Rubach, also my co-director and mentor, in [hɛɫ] (that is, H.E.L., or History of the English Language). I once told him during a subsequent semester of independent study in which we met for one hour once per week that I learned more from him in those sixteen total hours than I had in a few previous (general education undergraduate) classes that met three times per week. I feel privileged just to have retained probably less than one-quarter of all the incredible phonological knowledge he has imparted to me over the years. v Much debt is owed to Jill Beckman for being an inspirational instructor, for the countless hours of individual meetings and for all her grammatical corrections, as well. I would like to thank Mercedes Niño-Murcia for being a constant source of positive energy and kindness, and for reminding me not to neglect the importance of my sociolinguistic background, especially when it came to preparing the experimental methodology for this research. I thank Judy Liskin-Gasparro for her insightful methodological comments, as well. From a non-academic perspective, the Spanish and Portuguese picnics that she hosted are fond memories of graduate school that I will always cherish. I cannot envision a graduate school experience that is not shared with fellow graduate students. I thus thank my friends and colleagues who equally suffered with me:

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“…the study of socially structured phonetic variation in speech (e.g. Thomas 2011;Foulkes, Scobbie & Watt 2010), which is the focus of this essay.…”

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“…One should keep in mind that the indexical, social functions of a sociolinguistic variable are not usually the result of categorical usage or non-usage of a particular variant, but are rather manifested in statistical differences in a form's distribution across speakers, groups, or speech styles (Foulkes, Scobbie & Watt 2010). Studies of the speech of the city of Perm' suggest that some regional phonetic variables are actually used by all social groups in this city, though least often by highly educated inhabitants (Erofeeva 2005).…”

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“…Speech provides various kinds of information simultaneously. In addition to fulfilling linguistic functions, speech is also a rich source of so-called indexical information: 3 it expresses emotions and attitudes, it reflects personal characteristics of the speaker and it provides sociolinguistic (social and geographical) information about the speaker and the speech situation (Abercrombie 1967;Laver & Trudgill 1979;Foulkes, Scobbie & Watt 2010).…”

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Why Regional Prosodic Variation is Worth Studying: An Example from Russian

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Being philologists, we teach foreign language students how to read properly: they learn the cultural and social context that is necessary to interpret utterances in another language. A good student learns to listen carefully as wel, since much information is provided by the way utterances are pronounced. The prosodic features of speech — e.g. stress, rhythm and intonation — carry both linguistic and non-linguistic, including social, meanings: an “accent” triggers stereotypes that are associated with a certain social group or region. In Danish, a language with little regional variability, prosodic differences are a vital cue to dialect discrimination. Does the same account for Russian? A project is planned to study objectively measurable (prosodic and other) regional differences in regionally coloured Russian urban speech, as well as their social meaning: Do Russians pay attention to them? And what are the social consequences of having a regional “accent” in a country with a strong standard language ideology?

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Sociophonetics

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Can kiwis and koalas as cultural primes induce perceptual bias in Australian English speaking listeners?

Can kiwis and koalas as cultural primes induce perceptual bias in Australian English speaking listeners?

An optimality theoretic typology of three fricative-vowel assimilations in Latin American Spanish

Why Regional Prosodic Variation is Worth Studying: An Example from Russian

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