This series is based on the idea that there is a need for studies that break barriers. It is
dedicated to innovative studies of language use and language learning in educational …

In this article we define and illustrate sociophonetic variation within speech, highlighting
both its pervasiveness and also the relatively minor role it has played in the development of …

When an anonymous speech sample is associated with a criminal matter, for example in the
case of a phoned-in bomb threat or ransom demand, forensic linguistic profiling may be …

Abstract Language attitude studies have tended to assume that informants who listen to and
evaluate speech stimuli are able to identify with consistent accuracy the varieties of English …

A wide variety of research and clinical assessments involve presenting speech stimuli in the
presence of some kind of noise. Here, I selectively review two theoretical perspectives and …

An overview of forensic phonetics is presented, focusing on speaker identification as its core
task. Speaker profiling/speaker classification is applied when the offender has been …

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deutschsprachigen Wahrnehmungsdialektologie.............................................................18 Abb. 2: Das …

Extensive research shows that inter-talker variability (ie, changing the talker) affects
recognition memory for speech signals. However, relatively little is known about the …

Crowdsourcing linguistic phenomena with smartphone applications is relatively new. In
linguistics, apps have predominantly been developed to create pronunciation dictionaries, to …

In addition to the examination of non-linguists' evaluations of different speech varieties, in
recent years sociolinguists and sociophoneticians have afforded greater attention towards …