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Registered report protocol: Perceptual effects of Arabic grammatical gender on occupational expectations in a gamified speech production task.
(2023)The default use of masculine morphology to refer to all genders in Arabic-speaking countries is largely unquestioned and widely accepted. However, research on masculine generic morphology in other gender-marked languages ... -
DRESS-down: /ε/-lowering in apparent time in a rural Scottish community
(University of Glasgow, 2015)This paper presents a sociophonetic investigation of /ɛ/-lowering in apparent time. The data come from 24 speakers, across three generations from Buckie, northeast Scotland (12 males, 12 females). Acoustic analysis of the ... -
The urge to unmerge: a case of structural change across the lifespan
(Guarant International, 2023-08-14)This paper considers change across the lifespan by investigating an adult speaker’s development from a one-part low back vowel system to a two-part system. Specifically, we use podcast data to track the realtime development ... -
How ‘U’ are ‘U’ words?: Exploring variation in the usage and perception of class-based lexical shibboleths in British English
That U (upper-class) speakers and non-U (non-upper class) speakers are identifiable through the use of vocabulary is something of an axiom in England. These claims are repeated in books, magazine and newspaper articles, ... -
Language change is wicked: Semantic and social meaning of a polysemous adjective
As a result of an ameliorative shift-to-opposite, the polysemous adjective wicked is an auto-antonym, having two senses opposite in meaning, that is, ‘evil’ and ‘good’. We discuss two studies which explore the social life ... -
Interpreting identity effects in sociolinguistic variation and change: The role of local identity in the usage and recognition of Anglo-Cornish dialect lexis
Despite the well attested finding that orientation to place can exhibit correlations with sociolinguistic usage (e.g. Labov 1963; Hazen 2002; Haddican et al. 2013; Reed 2016; Beaman 2021), the role of place identity in ... -
Listening with style: The effect of bidialectal style-shifting on PRICE vowel perception in Britain’s Black Country
(Guarant International, 2023-08-14)Speech perception research has found that manipulating listener attitudes towards a dialect area can lead to convergence or divergence in production style, as well as a simultaneous convergence or divergence in perception. ... -
Two Languages, Two Pitch Ranges: The Case of Japanese-English Sequential Bilinguals
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What are linguistic representations?
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English contracted negation revisited: evidence from varieties of Scots
This article is concerned with the syntactic position of negation and how that connects to negation’s morphological realization and semantic and pragmatic effects. We focus on the case of contracted negation in English, ...
