A Reader in Sociophonetics

Phonetic Detail in the Perception of Ethnic Varieties of US English 305

Table 13.5 Multivariate Results of Canonical Discriminant Analysis

Group

Squared

Distance

Between Means

F

Squared

Canonical

Coef¿ cients

Eigenvalue

1: 1866 –1892 (df = 4, 41) 5.15 12.52* 0.550 1.222†

2: 1899 –1918 (df = 4, 83) 5.29 27.95* 0.574 1.347†

3: 1920 –1939 (df = 4, 147) 4.25 39.46* 0.518 1.074†

3: Perception (df = 4, 55) 3.88 11.59* 0.457 0.846†

4: 1966 –1986 (df = 4, 61) 2.27 8.26* 0.351 0.542†

5: Cont rols (df = 4, 93) 2.62 15.46* 0.399 0.665†

*p<0.0001

†cumulative eigenvalue = 1.000

Figure 13.2 Plot of the difference between the important measures with regard to
their total-sample standardized canonical coef¿ cient.