The social perception and evaluation of language are key elements in sociolinguistic
phenomena. While perceptual studies have long played a role in the study of linguistic …

This article reports on the relationship between the English variable (ING) and two divergent
accents (Southern and gay) as they are conceptualized and given social meaning in …

This study investigates how linguistic variation carries social meaning, examining the impact
of the English variable (ING) on perceptions of eight speakers from the US West Coast and …

We describe a novel approach to modeling idiosyncratic prosodic behavior for automatic
speaker recognition. The approach computes various duration, pitch, and energy features …

All primates vocalize on an expiratory airflow and they make use of the oscillation of the
vocal folds to generate sounds. The acoustic correlate of the rate of vibration is the …

Recent research has shown that beat gestures (hand gestures that co-occur with speech in
spontaneous discourse) are temporally integrated with prosodic prominence and that they …

Understanding the structure of sociolinguistic variation requires understanding what
information it coveys to listeners and how. Variation not only correlates with social structures …

In this paper, we present the English Dialects App (EDA) and the English Dialects App
Corpus (EDAC). EDA is a free iOS and Android app, launched in January 2016 that features …

Recently, the debate about what kind of speech data is most appropriate for linguistic
research has intensified. Generally, with 'laboratory speech'defenders on the one hand and …

Much of the research investigating the perception of speaker certainty has relied on either
attempting to elicit prosodic features in read speech, or artificial manipulation of recorded …