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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"sociophonetics"”.
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The Sociophonetics of Vowel Height: A Study of Variation in Tehran Persian
This dissertation employs the variationist method to investigate vowel height variation (VHV) in Tehran Persian (TP). Viewing spoken TP as a continuum between Vernacular Tehran Persian (VTP) and Bookish Persian (BP), this study examines how VHV systematically differs between VTP and BP. …
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Sociophonetics and class differentiation: A study of working- and middle- class English in Cape Town's coloured community
This thesis provides a detailed acoustic description of the phonetic variation and changes evident in the monophthongal vowel system of Coloured South African English in Cape Town. The changes are largely a result of South Africa's post-apartheid socio-educational reform. A detailed acoustic …
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A sociophonetic analysis of female-sounding virtual assistants
… exploration of the relationship between human sociophonetics, social expectations, and conversational machine voices. An in-depth literature review (a) explores human relationships with and expectations for real and movie robots, (b) discusses the rise of conversational machines, (c) assesses …
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Social class differentiation in South African Indian English : a sociophonetic study of three vowel variables
… the paper draws on progress in acoustic sociophonetics in the description of the vowels of the GOOSE, NURSE and THOUGHT sets, and basic statistics.
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Focusing and diffusion in 'Cape Flats English': a sociophonetic study of three vowels
This research contributes to the wider fields of sociophonetics and the social dialectology of English in South Africa. The study looks at three vowel sets; GOOSE, BATH and KIT taken from Wells (1982). The study was designed to identify and attempt to explain potential differences in pronunciation …
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Vowel production variation in college students based on social integration
… exemplar shifts in college students. Key words: sociophonetics, exemplars, production shift, social integration, monophthongization
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Social and learner-specific factors in the acquisition of nativelike phonetic contrasts by study abroad students in Paris, France
… draw on theory and methodologies of both sociophonetics and second language acquisition. This research examines to what extent the attitudes and motivations of American university students studying in Paris influence their acquisition of the previously documented counter-clockwise rotation …
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An analysis of /r/ variation in Singapore English
In modern urban Singapore, the variety of English spoken evolves through a continual negotiation of adhering to traditionally standard models and creating local norms in the environment of myriad social and substratum language influences. Singapore English (SgE) speakers constantly navigate a …
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The MOAN-MOWN and MOAN-GOOSE mergers in Lowestoft English: Perception and production
This dissertation presents a sociophonetic analysis of vowel phonemes descended from Middle English /ɔ:/ and /ɔu/ (MOAN-MOWN) in Lowestoft English, the East Anglian variety spoken in the UK’s easternmost town. These phonemes started to merge under a single GOAT vowel in the vast majority of English …
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Social dynamics of Catalan-Spanish contact in the evolution of Catalonian Spanish
The research objectives of this dissertation are: (1) to empirically investigate the origin behind two (contact) features of Catalonian Spanish, [ɫ] and [z], inquiring the role of specific linguistic and social factors as relevant in the process of linguistic influence from Catalan, and (2) to …
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The production and perception of domain-initial strengthening in Seoul, Busan, and Ulsan Korean
Korean exhibits one of the most consistent examples of the cross-linguistic phenomenon of domain-initial strengthening (hereafter DIS; T. Cho & Keating, 2001; Keating, Cho, Fougeron, & Hsu, 2004). DIS is defined as temporal and/or spatial enhancement of segmental articulation in the initial …
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A New Perspective on Vowel Variation Across the 19th and 20th Centuries in Columbus, OH
<p>The research in this dissertation focuses on the documentation and analysis of vowel variation and sound change in Columbus, OH. Columbus is a Midland speech community located in the Midwestern United States. Specifically, this work documents and analyzes vowel variation among 62 native-English …