The regional and sociolinguistic dimension of /hw/ maintenance and loss in early 20th century New Zealand English

Schreier, Daniel; Gordón, Elizabeth; Hay, Jennifer; Maclagan, Margaret

doi:10.1075/eww.24.2.06sch

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“…This kind of research has become possible only recently, thanks to the development of large speech corpora with not only orthographic transcriptions but also the acoustic signal. Corpora such as the corpus of New Zealand English (Schreier et al 2003; Gordon et al, forthcoming; Hay and Sudbury, to appear) and also the corpus of spoken Dutch offer the possibility of detailed analyses of the variation in acoustic forms across sociolinguistic and stylistic dimensions. The corpus of spoken Dutch was just large enough to allow us to retain our factorial methodology, although it left us with only 14 words ending in -lijk (evidencing reduction) that occurred sufficiently often in the different subcorpora defined by crossing Country, Sex, and Education.…”

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Variation in Dutch: From written MOGELIJK to spoken MOK

Keune¹,

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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Variation in Dutch: From written MOGELIJK to spoken MOK

Keune¹,

Ernestus²,

Hout³

et al. 2005

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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“…For example Hay and Schreier (2004) demonstrate that the use of singular concord in existential constructions declined in NZ until around 1900, and then steadily increased, and is relatively common today. Gordon et al (2004) and Schreier et al (2004) show that the use of [hw] in words like which and whistle increased in early New Zealand English, and then reversed its trajectory around 1900. It is relatively rare today.…”

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Gradient grammar: An effect of animacy on the syntax of give in New Zealand and American English

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Hay

2008

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Bresnan et al. (2007) show that a statistical model can predict United States (US) English speakers' syntactic choices with 'give'-type verbs extremely accurately. They argue that these results are consistent with probabilistic models of grammar, which assume that grammar is quantitive, and learned from exposure to other speakers. Such a model would also predict syntactic differences across time and space which are reflected not only in the use of clear dialectal features or clear-cut changes in progress, but also in subtle factors such as the relative importance of conditioning factors, and changes over time in speakers' preferences between equally well-formed variants. This paper investigates these predictions by comparing the grammar of phrases involving 'give' in New Zealand (NZ) and US English. We find that the grammar developed by Bresnan et al. for US English generalizes remarkably well to NZ English. NZ English is, however, subtly different, in that NZ English speakers appear to be more sensitive to the role of animacy. Further, we investigate changes over time in NZ English and find that the overall behavior of 'give' phrases has subtly shifted. We argue that these subtle differences in space and time provide support for the gradient nature of grammar, and are consistent with usage-based, probabilistic syntactic models.

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“…Neutralization of /T, D/ with /t, d/ in New York City english (Labov 2006) Neutralization of /T/ with /f/ in Newfoundland, Australian, and British english (Horvath 1985;Milroy 1996Milroy , 2003Kerswill 2003;Childs, Van Herk, and Thorburn 2007) 4 Neutralization of /∑/ with /w/ in Canadian, New Zealand, and Scottish english (Woods 1999;Schreier et al 2003;Gregg 2004;Stuart-Smith, Timmins, and Tweedie 2007) 5 Similar to the way men tend to reduce vowels more than women, men also tend to assimilate, lenite, and delete consonants more than women. following are some more examples:…”

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MUMBLING IS Macho: PHONETIC DISTINCTIVENESS IN THE SPEECH OF AMERICAN RADIO Djs

Heffernan¹

2010

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Phonetic studies of phonological contrasts in features such as vowel height and consonant voicing have revealed a gender difference: phonetic correlates of phonological contrasts produced by women tend to be more distinct in acoustic and temporal space than those produced by men. However, these studies have been constrained by their dichotomous approach to gender. This article examines withinsex variation in phonetic correlates of phonological contrasts among eight American male radio disc jockeys. four variables were examined: vowel space dispersion, consonant lenition, and two types of vowel length contrast. The social characteristics of the DJs were enumerated by having listeners rate each voice on 10 Likert scales. These ratings were aggregated into four components, which were interpreted as masculinity (i.e., gender), social class, regional accent, and personality. Two of these, masculinity and regional accent, showed significant correlations with the phonetic variables, demonstrating that phonetic distinctiveness correlates with speakers' social characteristics. a growing area of phonetic research is the production and perception of clear speech. Most of the research had focused on phonetic correlates of clear speech, such as the amount of overlap of voice onset time distributions (Chen 1980). However, studies such as Bradlow, Torretta, and Pisoni (1996) also looked at the sex of the talker and found that listeners transcribed speech spoken by female talkers significantly more accurately than the speech spoken by male talkers. Phonetic analysis determined that the female talkers spoke with more dispersed vowels and more precise articulation of consonants (i.e., less assimilation and lenition). These results mirror the general findings of studies on gender differences in articulation. These studies, several of which are reviewed below, find that women tend to produce acoustic and temporal phonetic correlates of phonological contrasts more distinctly than men. 1

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The regional and sociolinguistic dimension of /hw/ maintenance and loss in early 20th century New Zealand English

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Variation in Dutch: From written MOGELIJK to spoken MOK

Variation in Dutch: From written MOGELIJK to spoken MOK

Gradient grammar: An effect of animacy on the syntax of give in New Zealand and American English

MUMBLING IS Macho: PHONETIC DISTINCTIVENESS IN THE SPEECH OF AMERICAN RADIO Djs

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