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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"regional dialect"”.
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Regional Dialect Levelling and Language Standards: Changes in the Hønefoss Dialect
This is a sociolinguistic investigation of regional dialect levelling and the role that standardised language plays for this particular type of dialect change. This study combines a quantitative variationist investigation of linguistic variation and change in East Norwegian cities Hønefoss and Oslo …
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The Effects of Gender and Regional Dialect on Performance in Aviation Communication
… to analyze the performance effects of gender and regional dialect on air traffic control statement recall. Sixty-one student volunteers participated in the experiment. Thirty-one participants held a pilot’s license and 30 participants had no flight experience. Each participant listened to one CD …
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The Effect of Appalachian Regional Dialect on Performance Appraisal and Leadership Perceptions
… shown stereotyping on the basis of non-standard dialect can affect recruitment and hiring decisions made by employers. The present study addresses the possibility that these biases extend beyond the hiring process by investigating the impact of Appalachian regional dialect on performance …
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The Effect of Regional Dialect on the Validity and Reliability of Word Recognition Scores
… was to examine the effect of talker and listener dialect on the validity and reliability of word recognition scores from two sets of Mandarin speech audiometry materials. Four lists of bisyllabic words in Mainland Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin dialects were administered to 16 participants of each …
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The rise and fall of a wall and a dialect: Observations of shifting linguistic behavior among former East Berliners
… The people in and around Berlin speak a regional dialect, Berlinish. Unbeknownst to most Berliners, the dialect took on a vastly different symbolic meaning for the people in the West than it did for the people in the East. It became associated with lower educational and class levels, and …
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Online accommodation of regional accents
… of between-talker differences in accent and dialect, little is known about how listeners accommodate this source of variability in online language comprehension. Here we sought to identify constraints on this process, in order to inform candidate theories. Three experiments used the visual …
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An ethnographic and socio-semantic analysis of lexis among working-class Afrikaans-speaking coloured adolescent and young adult males in the Cape Peninsula, 1963-1990
… The lexis reflects a lexicogrammatical code of a regional dialect used by all generations in their speech community. Youths construed by speakers as enacting respectability use the lexis of parents or switch to varying degrees into middle-class ("standard") Afrikaans or English. The distinctive …
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Automatic Dialect and Accent Recognition and its Application to Speech Recognition
… styles, depending on many factors, such as their dialect and accent as well as their socioeconomic background. These individual differences typically introduce modeling difficulties for large-scale speaker-independent systems designed to process input from any variant of a given language. This …