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Lauretta S. P. Cheng – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Social information is cognitively linked to linguistic information, evidenced by bidirectional influences on perceptual processing of speech. Models of sociophonetic cognition theorize that the way linguistic experiences are interpreted and stored in memory is mediated by listener attention, which is guided by ideology. This relationship, however,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Ideology
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Díaz-Campos, Manuel; Cole, Molly; Pollock, Matthew – Hispania, 2023
This sociophonetic study examines affricate variation through a continuous lens using diachronic data from Caracas Spanish. We investigate the relationship between frication and occlusion period duration in affricate segments across two steps. First, we present a phonetic characterization of the dependent variable and its variants. Second, we…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Variation, Pronunciation, Vowels
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J. A. Rice; Trini Stickle – Across the Disciplines, 2024
Comparing legal, policy, and statute writing--from stone records of ancient Britain civil servants to opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court--this article demonstrates how weaving threads of textual language variation and change can innervate writing in the disciplines and history of the English language courses, particularly courses designated for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Across the Curriculum, Legal Problems, Jargon
Oihane Muxika Loitzate – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Traditionally, Basque has three voiceless affricates that are different in their place of articulation. More precisely, affricates can have a lamino-alveolar, apico-alveolar, and prepalatal place of articulation and the graphemes used to represent them are respectively. Likewise, Basque has been described as having three fricatives with the same…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Variation, Languages, Spanish
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Blau, Shane – Sign Language Studies, 2017
A sociolinguistic style consists of a set of linguistic resources that carry specific meaning within a social context (Campbell-Kibler 2011). One such resource is the use of phonetic variants that do not change the denotative meaning of a word, but are different enough to be recognized as unique. This type of socially constrained phonetic…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Self Concept, Deafness, LGBTQ People
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Dalola, Amanda; Bullock, Barbara E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
The data from this study investigate phrase-final vowel devoicing in Metropolitan French among L1 and L2 speakers, in terms of number of times a speaker devoices a phrase-final high vowel and percentage of the vowel that is devoiced. The goal is to assess whether experienced L2 speakers use style-based variation in response to the same factors as…
Descriptors: French, Vowels, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Oktavianti, Ikmi Nur – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2018
This paper examines the usage frequency of phonetically reduced modals (i.e. "gonna," "wanna," "gotta") in Present-day English. It is assumed that in distinct sociolinguistic and discourse contexts, the use of reduced modals is dynamic. To collect the data, there are five corpora used in this study, "Corpus of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Word Frequency
Sneller, Betsy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The traditional Philadelphia allophonic /ae/ system (henceforth: PHL shown in (1) below) is characterized by a set of complicated conditioning factors and a dramatic acoustic distinction between the two allophones. In recent years, some Philadelphians have begun to exhibit a new allophonic system (NAS, shown in (2) below). Like PHL, NAS is…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Variation, Pronunciation, Acoustics
Bauman, Carina – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation explores language as a resource for the formation and expression of ethnic identity among the members of an Asian American college sorority. As a community of practice organized around ethnicity, the sorority provides an excellent site to examine the mutually constitutive relationship of language and ethnic identity. Two features…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Asian Americans, Interviews, Ethnography
Erker, Daniel Gerard – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines a major linguistic event underway in New York City. Of its 10 million inhabitants, nearly a third are speakers of Spanish. This community is socially and linguistically diverse: Some speakers are recent arrivals from Latin America while others are lifelong New Yorkers. Some have origins in the Caribbean, the historic source of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Phonemes
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Suarez Budenbender, Eva-Maria – Hispania, 2013
Dialectal differences are frequently cited by members of a majority group as their main means of identifying members of a minority ethnic group. However, existing stereotypes of minority language varieties and their speakers often suggest that social prejudices influence attitudes towards minority groups and their linguistic varieties. The present…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Social Influences, Language Attitudes, Language Minorities
Callier, Patrick R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigates the linguistic and social constraints on the occurrence of creaky voice quality (creak) in Beijing Mandarin (BM), as well as the effect of linguistic and prosodic context on creak's social meanings for Mandarin listeners. It is a two-phase study, composed of 1) a production study of the distribution of creak in the…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Computational Linguistics
Lamy, Delano Sydney – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The present study is concerned with language contact between Creole English and Spanish spoken by bilingual West Indians who live in Panama City, Panama. The goal of this study is to examine the speech patterns of monolinguals of Creole English and Spanish and Spanish-Creole English bilinguals in the local communities of this region, by employing…
Descriptors: Creoles, Phonetics, Spanish, English
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Clarke, Sandra – World Englishes, 2012
Newfoundland English has long been considered autonomous within the North American context. Sociolinguistic studies conducted over the past three decades, however, typically suggest cross-generational change in phonetic feature use, motivated by greater alignment with mainland Canadian English norms. The present study uses data spanning the past…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonetics, Social Status, North American English
Castaneda-Molla, Rosa Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study focuses on the analysis of variation at the phonological level, specifically the variable realization of palatalization of dental stops before the high vowel /i/ and vowel nasalization in the speech of bilingual speakers of Uruguayan Portuguese (UP) in the city of Rivera, Uruguay. The data were collected in participant-observation and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Portuguese, Phonology
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