A Reader in Sociophonetics

Chapter 11 Linguistic Security, Ideology, and Vowel Perception Nancy Niedzielski, Rice University Introduction Recent technolo ...

254 Nancy Niedzielski knowledge, but that this serves to create and maintain self-identity, particu- larly in the case of the li ...

Linguistic Security, Ideology, and Vowel Perception 255 versus rural, but not age. However, Koops et al. (2006) suggest that Hou ...

256 Nancy Niedzielski The eye-tracker measures the amount of time that the subjects look at the words printed around the subject ...

Linguistic Security, Ideology, and Vowel Perception 257 is implicit, rather than explicit. An even more dramatic demonstration o ...

258 Nancy Niedzielski vowel merger prenasally (as illustrated previously in the Koops et al. study) in Houston, Texas was record ...

Linguistic Security, Ideology, and Vowel Perception 259 considered “incorrect” or nonstandard, and the perceived users of such f ...

260 Nancy Niedzielski However, as many sociophonetic studies have shown, the vowel systems of speakers from this area are rapidl ...

Linguistic Security, Ideology, and Vowel Perception 261 the vowel that matched the speaker’s /æ/, and only two of the respondent ...

262 Nancy Niedzielski Discussion In Figure 11.6 I offer a model of how implicit and explicit knowledge interacts with speaker ...

Linguistic Security, Ideology, and Vowel Perception 263 In this chapter I have claimed that work in both sociophonetics and psy- ...

264 Nancy Niedzielski Lambert, Wallace E. 1967. A social psychology of bilingualism. Journal of Social Issues 23 (2): 91–109. Li ...

Chapter 12 Identi¿ cation of African American Speech Erik R. Thomas, North Carolina State University; Norman J. Lass, West Virgi ...

266 Erik R. Thomas, Norman J. Lass, and Jeannine Carpenter African American voices from European American voices is, in general, ...

Identi¿ cation of African American Speech 267 these many studies is simply that listeners are capable of accessing a variety of ...

268 Erik R. Thomas, Norman J. Lass, and Jeannine Carpenter sentences, read a dialog, and read a list of words. The sentences wer ...

Identi¿ cation of African American Speech 269 2.1 Methods Of the 36 spea kers who were pa r t of the cor pus of recordi ngs, 12 ...

270 Erik R. Thomas, Norman J. Lass, and Jeannine Carpenter Virginia University. Subjects were asked to circle, for each stimulus ...

Identi¿ cation of African American Speech 271 the accuracy by which they were identi¿ ed. In some cases, control stimuli were id ...

272 Erik R. Thomas, Norman J. Lass, and Jeannine Carpenter 1981, 1982; Jun and Foreman 1996), though this feature of African Ame ...