A Reader in Sociophonetics

Perceptions of /a/ fronting Across Two Michigan Dialects 233 boundary between /a/ and /æ/ for each group. A subject-by-subject a ...

234 Bartáomiej Plichta and Brad Rakerd 4.6 Target words in sentence carriers: The sociophonetic test For the sociophonetic test, ...

Perceptions of /a/ fronting Across Two Michigan Dialects 235 stimuli were presented in eight blocks of 56 trials each. The exper ...

236 Bartáomiej Plichta and Brad Rakerd The response patterns were very similar for the two talkers, with the /a/- to-/æ/ cross-o ...

Perceptions of /a/ fronting Across Two Michigan Dialects 237 was found here that listeners from Detroit, Michigan were sensitive ...

238 Bartáomiej Plichta and Brad Rakerd and upper-middle-class European Americans (such as the participants of the present study) ...

Perceptions of /a/ fronting Across Two Michigan Dialects 239 References Chambers, J. K. 1995. Sociolinguistic theory: Linguistic ...

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Chapter 10 Belle’s Body Just Caught the Fit Gnat: The Perception of Northern Cities Shifted Vowels by Local Speakers Dennis R. P ...

242 Dennis R. Preston study were all from female speakers, only female vowel positions are shown from these two earlier studies. ...

The Perception of Northern Cities Shifted Vowels by Local Speakers 243 southeastern and southwestern Michigan, a fact reÀ ected ...

244 Dennis R. Preston from each talker, but only the vowels involved in the NCS are presented here. Except for /ɬ/ (.82), the re ...

The Perception of Northern Cities Shifted Vowels by Local Speakers 245 In contrast, the best NCS vowel comprehension rate was .9 ...

246 Dennis R. Preston These ¿ ve groups were entered as one factor group for the VARBRUL run, and sex and the six vowels of the ...

The Perception of Northern Cities Shifted Vowels by Local Speakers 247 the areas where the change has already taken place and in ...

248 Dennis R. Preston areas of southeastern Michigan, and that group (USM) leads in comprehen- sion. Although it is weaker in pr ...

The Perception of Northern Cities Shifted Vowels by Local Speakers 249 “a” in Figure 10.1). It moves into a position occupied by ...

250 Dennis R. Preston Phoneme class—vowels not involved in complex, historical phoneme word-class changes should be better unde ...

The Perception of Northern Cities Shifted Vowels by Local Speakers 251 Wedge /ݞ/ is, however, a bit of a puzzle. Why is its comp ...

252 Dennis R. Preston modify the effect of the order of change of elements in a direction that better matches comprehension rate ...