Computational sociophonetics using automatic speech recognition

R Coto‐Solano - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have seen numerous advances in natural language processing that can help
accelerate sociophonetic work. These include software to align speech recordings with their …

[图书][B] Accent in North American film and television

C Boberg - 2021 - books.google.com
" Drawing on data from well-known actors in popular films and TV shows, this reference
guide surveys the representation of accent in North American film and TV over eight …

1. Language Change at the Intersections of Movement, Economy, and Orientation

JA Stanley, MEL Renwick… - Publication of the …, 2024 - read.dukeupress.edu
EXPOSITION A growing amount of research on North American English varieties shows that
many sociolinguistic variables peaked among the Baby Boomer Generation (born …

The Rise and Fall of the Northern Cities Shift: Social and Linguistic Reorganization of TRAP in Twentieth-Century Lansing, Michigan

M Nesbitt - American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, 2021 - read.dukeupress.edu
Recent acoustic analyses examining English in the North American Great Lakes region
show that the area's characteristic vowel chain shift, the Northern Cities Shift (NCS), is …

8. Let's Make Some Noise! Using Large-Scale Data Sources for North American Dialect Research

J Grieve, JN Stanford - Publication of the American Dialect …, 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
In recent years there has been growing interest in the use of large linguistic datasets
collected online to study language variation and change. Research in this emerging …

10. Variation in Phonetics and Phonology

V Fridland, T Kendall - Publication of the American Dialect …, 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
Change charting the course for deeper investigation of key regional American vowel chain
shifts taking both a linguistic and social perspective. But it seems safe to describe the last …

Socially distanced but virtually connected: Pandemic fieldwork with Black Bostonians

M Nesbitt, A Watts - Linguistics Vanguard, 2022 - degruyter.com
Abstract The Eastern Massachusetts Life and Language project was in its planning stages
when the COVID-19 pandemic began to make headway in the United States in 2020. We …

Bring on the crowd! Using online audio crowd-sourcing for large-scale new England dialectology and acoustic sociophonetics

C Kim, S Reddy, JN Stanford… - … Speech: A Quarterly …, 2019 - read.dukeupress.edu
This study aims to (1) identify current geographic patterns of major New England dialect
features relative to prior work in previous generations and (2) test the effectiveness of large …

Structure, chronology, and local social meaning of a supra-local vowel shift: Emergence of the Low-Back-Merger Shift in New England

M Nesbitt, JN Stanford - Language Variation and Change, 2021 - cambridge.org
The Low-Back-Merger Shift (LBMS) is a major North American vowel chain shift spreading
across many disparate dialect regions. In this field-based study, we examine the speech of …

[图书][B] Sounds of English Worldwide

R Hickey - 2023 - books.google.com
An in-depth exploration of the sound systems of varieties of English around the world, written
by a renowned authority in the field In Sounds of English Worldwide, Raymond Hickey …