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Identi¿ cation of African American Speech 275

Table 12.3 Multiple Regression Results By Listener Group and Sentence Type (continued)

c. p values and coef¿ cient signs for West Virginia European American listeners (n=39; coef¿ cient

sign shown in parentheses when p”.10)

Treatment speaker

sex

mean F0 max F0 CPP vowel

quality

standard

deviation

of F0

R^2

unmod /æ/ male .675 .805 .774 .089 (+) .670 .961

unmod /o/ male .668 .951 .856 nu .822

gl .789

.713 .721

unmod control male .100 (+) .103 (-) .558 — .956 .917

unmod /æ/ female .564 .232 .987 .103 (+) .662 .870

unmod /o/ female .677 .429 .444 nu .144

gl .852

.266 .991

unmod control female .049 (+) .095 (-) .061 (-) — .124 .807

mono /æ/ male — — .752 .003 (+) — .875

mono /o/ male — — .050 (-) nu .874

gl .113

—.757

mono control male — — .371 — — .135

mono /æ/ female — — .109 .00003 (+) — .975

mono /o/ female — — .335 nu .007 (+)

gl .215

—.912

mono control female — — .237 — — .223

schwa /æ/ male .317 .612 .556 — .989 .865

schwa /o/ male .364 .371 .522 — .178 .711

schwa control male .115 .105 .150 — .112 .922

schwa /æ/ female .354 .332 .463 — .870 .634

schwa /o/ female 0.54 (-) .122 .927 — .534 .916

schwa control female .245 .302 .961 — .371 .428