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 phonetic and social factors as multidimensional and interacting will take future work in sociophonetics in new and exciting directions.

[1]  L. S. Casasanto.  What do Listeners Know about Sociolinguistic Variation , 2010 .

[2]  Daniel Jurafsky,et al.  The role of the lemma in form variation , 2002 .

[3]  B. Munson.  Levels of Phonological Abstraction and Knowledge of Socially Motivated Speech- Sound Variation: A Review, a Proposal, and a Commentary on the Papers by Clopper, Pierrehumbert, and Tamati; Drager; Foulkes; Mack; and Smith, Hall, and Munson , 2010 .

[4]  Molly Babel,et al.  Loose Lips and Silver Tongues, or, Projecting Sexual Orientation Through Speech , 2007, Lang. Linguistics Compass.

[5]  A. Samuel,et al.  The effect of experience on the perception and representation of dialect variants , 2009 .

[6]  Nancy Niedzielski,et al.  The Effect of Social Information on the Perception of Sociolinguistic Variables , 1999 .

[7]  David B. Pisoni,et al.  Some acoustic cues for the perceptual categorization of American English regional dialects , 2004, J. Phonetics.

[8]  E. Thomas.  Sociophonetic Applications of Speech Perception Experiments , 2002 .

[9]  W. Idsardi,et al.  Perceptual and Phonetic Experiments on American English Dialect Identification , 1999 .

[10]  E. Levon.  Sexuality in context: Variation and the sociolinguistic perception of identity , 2007, Language in Society.

[11]  David Bowie.  The effect of geographic mobility on the retention of a local dialect , 2000 .

[12]  P. Iverson,et al.  Plasticity in vowel perception and production: a study of accent change in young adults. , 2007, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

[13]  Jennifer Hay,et al.  Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a merger-in-progress , 2006, J. Phonetics.

[14]  A. Samuel,et al.  Perceptual learning for speech , 2009, Attention, perception & psychophysics.

[15]  J. Hay,et al.  From fush to feesh: Exemplar priming in speech perception , 2006 .

[16]  Erik R. Thomas,et al.  Spectral differences in /ai/ offsets conditioned by voicing of the following consonant , 2000, J. Phonetics.

[17]  Cynthia G. Clopper,et al.  Homebodies and army brats: Some effects of early linguistic experience and residential history on dialect categorization , 2004, Language Variation and Change.

[18]  J. F. Buck.  The effects of Negro and White dialectal variations upon attitudes of college students , 1968 .

[19]  Elizabeth A. Strand.  Uncovering the Role of Gender Stereotypes in Speech Perception , 1999 .

[20]  J. Reaser,et al.  Delimiting perceptual cues used for the ethnic labeling of African American and European American voices , 2004 .

[21]  Kathryn Campbell-Kibler.  ACCENT, (ING), AND THE SOCIAL LOGIC OF LISTENER PERCEPTIONS , 2007 .

[22]  J. Chambers,et al.  The handbook of language variation and change , 2003 .

[23]  A. Samuel,et al.  Accommodating variation: Dialects, idiolects, and speech processing , 2008, Cognition.

[24]  Clara N. Bush.  Some Acoustic Parameters of Speech and Their Relationships to the Perception of Dialect Differences , 1967 .

[25]  J. Hay,et al.  Stuffed toys and speech perception , 2010 .

[26]  Dennis R. Preston.  Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume 1. , 1999 .

[27]  S. Fillenbaum,et al.  Evaluational reactions to spoken languages. , 1960, Journal of abnormal and social psychology.

[28]  Joan L. Bybee,et al.  Word frequency and context of use in the lexical diffusion of phonetically conditioned sound change , 2002, Language Variation and Change.

[29]  K. Drager.  Speaker Age and Vowel Perception , 2011, Language and speech.

[30]  R. Schulman,et al.  Non-distinctive features and their use , 1983 .

[31]  Elizabeth A. Strand.  Gender stereotype effects in speech processing , 2000 .

[32]  Dan Jurafsky,et al.  Probabilistic Modeling in Psycholinguistics: Linguistic Comprehension and Production , 2006 .

[33]  Wallace E. Lambert,et al.  White and Negro Listeners' Reactions to Various American-English Dialects , 1969 .

[34]  Elizabeth A. Strand,et al.  Auditory–visual integration of talker gender in vowel perception , 1999 .

[35]  David W. Addington.  The relationship of selected vocal characteristics to personality perception , 1968 .

[36]  P. Foulkes,et al.  Perceptual evaluation of sociophonetic variability: how do listeners learn? , 2008 .

[37]  Christian Koops,et al.  The effect of perceived speaker age on the perception of PIN and PEN vowels in Houston, Texas , 2008 .

[38]  D. Bayard.  13. The cultural cringe revisited: changes through time in Kiwi attitudes toward accents , 2000 .

[39]  D. Broadbent,et al.  Information Conveyed by Vowels , 1957 .