Sociophonetic variation in Mississippi: Gender, ethnicity, and prevoiced plosives

2017 ◽  
Vol 141 (5) ◽  
pp. 3980-3980
Author(s):  
Wendy Herd
Keyword(s):  
Sociophonetic Variation

Explicit and Implicit Methods in Quantitative Analyses of Sociophonetic Variation

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Mack
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Implicit Measures ◽  
Implicit Methods ◽  
Phonetic Variation ◽  
Puerto Rican Spanish ◽  
Sociophonetic Variation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Explicit Measures

AbstractThis viewpoint paper provides an overview of explicit and implicit methods in sociophonetic perception studies, illustrates how they can be used to measure the relationship between social factors and phonetic variation, and demonstrates how they can prove useful complements to more traditional sociolinguistic methods. The first section addresses explicit measures and gives an example of an explicit measures task exploring the relationships between phonetic variation and perceptions of speaker sexual orientation, height, age, and social class in Puerto Rican Spanish. Results show that an explicit measures task can provide a window into fine-grained phonetic variation associated with social factors that is not available through traditional impressionistic methods. The second part of the paper provides an overview of implicit measures, including an example of the use of implicit measures in a response time task that quantitatively assesses the relationship between /s/ variation and perceptions of sexual orientation in Puerto Rican Spanish. The paper concludes with a summary of how the results gathered from these types of experiments can further our understanding of theoretical issues in Hispanic Linguistics.

scholarly journals Introduction: Tracing the origin of /s/ variation

Linguistics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erez Levon ◽  
Marie Maegaard ◽  
Nicolai Pharao
Keyword(s):  
Sound Symbolism ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Laboratory Phonology ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Sociophonetic Variation ◽  
Experimental Phonetics

AbstractThis paper provides an introduction to the papers in this special issue on the sociophonetics of /s/. We begin by reviewing some of the principal findings on variation in the production and perception of /s/, summarizing studies in sociolinguistics, experimental phonetics, and laboratory phonology. We go on to identify similarities in the meanings associated with /s/ variation cross-linguistically, and briefly describe how theories of sound symbolism may help us to account for these patterns. We conclude this introductory article with a summary of the contributions to the special issue and a discussion of how together these articles help us to better understand that origin and trajectory of socially meaningful sociophonetic variation.

Bunched /r/ promotes vowel merger to schwar: An ultrasound tongue imaging study of Scottish sociophonetic variation

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 198-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Lawson ◽  
James M. Scobbie ◽  
Jane Stuart-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Imaging Study ◽  
Sociophonetic Variation

scholarly journals The Trini Sing-Song: Sociophonetic variation in Trinidadian English prosody and differences to other varieties

2021 ◽  
pp. 002383092199840
Author(s):  
Philipp Meer ◽  
Robert Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Speech Production ◽  
General Level ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Pitch Range ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Variation Patterns ◽  
Pitch Level ◽  
Local Differentiation ◽  
Sociophonetic Variation ◽  
High Degree

The current study provides a phonetic perspective on the questions of whether a high degree of variability in pitch may be considered a characteristic, endonormative feature of Trinidadian English (TrinE) at the level of speech production and contribute to what is popularly described as ‘sing-song’ prosody. Based on read and spontaneous data from 111 speakers, we analyze pitch level, range, and dynamism in TrinE in comparison to Southern Standard British (BrE) and Educated Indian English (IndE) and investigate sociophonetic variation in TrinE prosody with a view to these global F0 parameters. Our findings suggest that a large pitch range could potentially be considered an endonormative feature of TrinE that distinguishes it from other varieties (BrE and IndE), at least in spontaneous speech. More importantly, however, it is shown that a high degree of pitch variation in terms of range and dynamism is not as much characteristic of TrinE as a whole as it is of female Trinidadian speakers. An important finding of this study is that pitch variation patterns are not homogenous in TrinE, but systematically sociolinguistically conditioned across gender, age, and ethnic groups, and rural and urban speakers. The findings thus reveal that there is a considerable degree of systematic local differentiation in TrinE prosody. On a more general level, the findings may be taken to indicate that endonormative tendencies and sociolinguistic differentiation in TrinE prosody are interlinked.

Sociophonetic variation and the lemma

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 694-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie K. Drager
Keyword(s):  
Sociophonetic Variation
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