A Reader in Sociophonetics

Rhythm Types and the Speech of Working-Class Youth in a Banlieue of Paris 109

Table 4.3

Linear Regression Coef

¿ cients with Eight Predictor Variables and “ethnicity” (AF or EF) as Outcome Variable

37

Pearson correlation coef

¿ cients

(*p<.05, **p<.001)

ethnicity

N of

segments in phrase

articulatory

rate

%V

ǻV

ǻCgradeGPA

individual speaker

ethnicity EF (1) AF (2)

1.000

.184*

.323**

-.053

.080

-.004

-.459**

-.234**

.580**

N segments in phrase

.184**

1.000

.280**

-.245**

-.107

.045

-.158*

.064

.106

articulatory rate

.323**

.280

1.000

-.219**

-.321**

-.256**

-.278**

.164**

.205**

%V

-.053

-.245**

-.219*

1.000

.297**

-.125*

.136*

-.284**

-.070

ǻV

.080

-.107

-.321**

.297**

1.000

.109

-.096

.068

.058

ǻC

-.004

.045

-.256**

-.125*

.109

1.000

.050

.052

-.092

age (as grade in school)

-.459**

-.158*

-.278**

.136**

-.096

.050

1.000

.114

-.841**

GPA (

moyenne générale

)

-.234**

.064

.164**

-.284*

.068

.052

.114

1.000

-.357**

individual speaker

.580**

.106

.205**

-.070

.058

-.092

-.841**

-.357**

1.000