Sociophonetic Variation in Speech Perception

Sociophonetic Variation in Speech Perception

In this paper, I review previous research that investigates sociophonetic variation in speech perception. I also argue that more speech perception work is needed to inform work on variation in speech production, particularly in the areas of language change and stereotype formation. Exploring the mental representations and processing of social and linguistic information as well as treating phone...

Eliciting sociophonetic variation in vowel duration

Recent work has revealed that regional dialect is an important source of systematic variation in vowel duration in American English in addition to the wellknown linguistic sources of this variation. This study addressed the issue of adequacy of speech materials used to elicit the dialect-specific temporal patterns. Duration of vowels was measured in isolated citation-form syllables and in conne...

Running head: Dialectal variation in speech perception

Native speakers with different linguistic backgrounds differ in their usage of language, and particularly in their vocabulary. For instance, British natives would use the word 'holiday' when American natives would prefer the word 'vacation'. This study investigates how cross-dialectal lexical variation impacts lexical processing, by using event-related potentials. Electrophysiological responses...

Speech Perception in Children with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants provide access to the speech signal in children with hearing loss that often cannot benefit from acoustic hearing aids. However, despite the numerous positive results in pediatric cochlear implantation, published data still indicated a wide range of performance among implant recipients. Hence, a need to study the possible variables that can affect performance, could account fo...

Tonal coarticulation in Northern and Southern Vietnamese Phonetics, sociophonetic variation