Joel Merry

Black Country English in the Spotlight: A Stylistic Analysis of Variable Contrast between Phonemes in an Urban Regiolect of British English

Linguistics

When examining the COT /CAUGHT merger in central Pennsylvania, Labov (1994) uncovered a stylistic phenomenon, known as the “ Bill Peters Ef...

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Yova Kementchedjhieva

Code-Switching as Strategically Employed in Political Discourse

Linguistics

There is extensive scholarship in the field of sociolinguistics on mediated political discourse as strategically employed to gain support i...

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This paper addresses a highly pertinent and underexplored area within sociolinguistics: the strategic employment of code-switching in political discou...

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Suzey Ingold

Goin’ Home: The Role of Vowel Raising in Indexing an Ethnic Identity

Linguistics

Vowel height can be seen as a feature indexing a particular ethnic identity or indicating a style shift between two such identities. This p...

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Michael Marinaccio

De LaurentESE

Linguistics

An increasing amount of sociolinguistic research has been concentrated on diachronic idiolect change: the change of an individual’s dialect...

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This paper tackles the increasingly relevant sociolinguistic phenomenon of diachronic idiolect change, focusing on how an individual’s dialect evolves...

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Stella Takvoryan

"We Pray for Our Nation an(d) Our Worl(d)"

Linguistics

This paper examines the effect of race, context, and white public space on the extent to which speakers articulate, hyperarticulate, hypo-a...

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The paper, titled "We Pray for Our Nation an(d) Our Worl(d)," presents a compelling sociophonetic analysis of word-final English alveolar stops -/t/ a...

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Akiah Watts

Attitudinal Judgments of Dialect Traits and Colorism in African Americans

Sociology

This study demonstrates how language and complexion influence professional and social perceptions of African Americans. This study contains...

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Jamie Brigg

“I didn’t fink dat was funny”

Linguistics

This paper examines the effect of middle and older age on Michael Caine’s realisation of the English dental fricatives. The results show...

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Canaan Zengyu Lan

“It makes It the Market”

Linguistics

Food-market speech is an under-researched area of third-wave variationist sociolinguistic studies. This study addresses the gap by explo...

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This paper offers a timely and insightful exploration into the under-researched domain of food-market speech within third-wave variationist sociolingu...

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Wesley Leong

Sociolinguistic Factors Affecting Tense Variation in Singapore English

Linguistics

Despite English being the primary official language of Singapore, many of its citizens show deviations from Standard Singapore English (...

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This paper proposes an intriguing investigation into the dynamics of tense variation within Singapore English (SSE), a crucial area given English's of...

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Cambria Willis, Anna Colpitts, Lauren Denusik

Perceived Accentedness in Monolingual and Simultaneous Bilingual Children

Linguistics

Previous research on accentedness in simultaneous bilinguals has produced inconsistent results and has focused on adult speakers. The cu...

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This study addresses a pertinent gap in the literature concerning perceived accentedness by focusing on simultaneous bilingual children, a population...

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