Differences between listeners with early and late immersion age in spatial release from masking in various acoustic environments

CTJ Hui, Y Hioka, H Masuda, CI Watson - Speech Communication, 2022 - Elsevier
It is well-known that we benefit from binaural hearing when listening to the speech of interest
amongst noise, where spatial cues may release our auditory perception from masking …

Coherence in Real-and Apparent-Time: A sociolinguistic variationist investigation of language change in Swabia.

KV Beaman - 2021 - qmro.qmul.ac.uk
This research investigates linguistic variation and change in three understudied areas of the
dialect-standard language continuum: the changing use of Swabian, an Alemannic dialect …

Fifty years of change to prevocalic definite article allomorphy in Australian English

F Cox, J Penney, S Palethorpe - Journal of the International Phonetic …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The English definite article has two major allomorphs: prevocalic/ðiː/and
preconsonantal/ðə/. Recent studies have shown changes to definite article allomorphy in …

Hiatus resolution and linguistic diversity in Australian English

J Penney, F Cox, A Gibson - Phonetica, 2024 - degruyter.com
Vowel hiatus is typically resolved in Australian English through complementary strategies of
liaison (j-gliding/w-gliding/linking-r) and glottalisation. Previous work suggests a change in …

[图书][B] Advancing socio-grammatical variation and change

K Beaman, I Buchstaller, S Fox, JA Walker - 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The study of sociolinguistic variation and change, which began with William Labov's work on
English phonetic variables in Massachusetts and New York in the 1960s (Labov 1963 …

Social class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space

D Sharma - Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of generational dialect change in diaspora communities have tended to find that
local forces outweigh transnational ones: parent varieties are rejected as too saliently …

New Zealand English in Auckland: A Papatoetoe snapshot

B Ross, E Ballard, C Watson - Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 2021 - jbe-platform.com
This study acoustically analyses the vowel space of adult New Zealand English speakers
from a predominantly Pasifika suburb in Auckland (Papatoetoe). These speakers (n= 13) are …

Sociolinguistics in New Zealand

J Hay, M Maclagan - The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter considers research since 2010 in language variation and change in New
Zealand English (NZE), te reo Maāori (the Maāori language) and New Zealand sign …

Prestige factors in contact-induced grammatical change

D Sharma - Advancing Socio-grammatical Variation and Change, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Multiethnic contact in working-class parts of East London has given rise to a major new
dialect, Multicultural London English (MLE). A contemporaneous, more ethnically …

[PDF][PDF] Ethnicity and social class in pre-vocalic the in Australian English

G Qiao, CE Travis - … Conference on Speech Science and Technology …, 2022 - academia.edu
Across varieties of English, the realisation of pre-vocalic definite article the is undergoing
change, with a move away from non-glottalised FLEECE towards both glottalised FLEECE …