The present study investigated the perception of phrase-level prosodic prominence in
American English, using the Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) task. We had two basic …

Abstract Middle class African American English (AAE) has remained largely invisible to the
sociolinguistic lens despite the fact that over 50 years of research has made it one of the …

Prosodic stresses are known to affect the meaning of utterances, but exactly how they do this
is not known in many cases. We focus on the mechanisms underlying the meaning effects of …

Over the past few decades, sociolinguists have begun to take greater interest in how public
figures, such as politicians, may employ variation at different levels of linguistic structure in …

The tendency to use a lower voice in public speeches may be well justified by evolutionary
and social factors. Low, stable voice is often associated with authority and persuasive power …

In this chapter we address sociophonetics and intonation. We note complementary trends
among scholars of intonation to delve into social factors as a source of variability and among …

Purpose Speech conveys information about a speaker's identity—their age, gender, size,
health, region of origin, language learning background, sexual orientation, and race …

This study investigates the role of prosody in narration as a function of Labovian narrative
structure and stancetaking in identity performance. This study is both (1) an extension and …

This study investigates the role of prosody in narration as a function of Labovian narrative
structure and stancetaking in identity performance. This study is both an extension and …

While sociologists have dedicated much attention to the processes by which individuals
construct their participation in (or rejection of) group membership, the role of language as a …