The complexity and diversity of the words in Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary

AbstractRecent research has been concerned with whether speech accommodation is an automatic process or determined by social factors (e.g. Trudgill 2008). This paper investigates phonetic accommodation in New Zealand English when speakers of NZE are responding to an Australian talker in a speech production task. NZ participants were randomly assigned to either a Positive or Negative group, where they were either flattered or insulted by the Australian. Overall, the NZE speakers accommodated to the speech of the AuE speaker. The flattery/insult manipulation did not influence degree of accommodation, but accommodation was predicted by participants' scores on an Implicit Association Task that measured Australia and New Zealand biases. Participants who scored with a pro-Australia bias were more likely to accommodate to the speech of the AuE speaker. Social biases about how a participant feels about a speaker predicted the extent of accommodation. These biases are, crucially, simultaneously automatic and social. (Speech accommodation, phonetic convergence, New Zealand English, dialect contact)*

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A Cross-Sectional Developmental Study of Final Consonant Production in Southern Black Children from Preschool through Third Grade

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.2004.400 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 400-406 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

William O. Haynes ◽

Michael J. Moran

Keyword(s):

Predominantly White ◽

Black Children ◽

Third Grade ◽

Clinical Implications ◽

Developmental Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Phonological Process ◽

Phonological Processes ◽

East Central ◽

English Dialect

The sounds-in-words subtest of the Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation (GFTA) was administered to 222 Black children in preschool through third grade. The children resided in rural east central Alabama, and used the Black English dialect common to that region. The children's responses were analyzed using the PROPH computer program for analysis of phonological processes. The analysis revealed phonological process patterns similar to those reported in the developmental literature with the exception of final consonant deletion. The data suggest that southern Black children continue to delete final consonants well beyond the age indicated by norms gathered on predominantly White subjects. Clinical implications are discussed.

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