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Kleber, Felicitas; Harrington, Jonathan; Reubold, Ulrich – Language and Speech, 2012
The present study is concerned with lax /[upsilon]/-fronting in Standard British English and in particular with whether this sound change in progress can be attributed to a waning of the perceptual compensation for the coarticulatory effects of context. Younger and older speakers produced various monosyllables in which /[upsilon]/ occurred in…
Descriptors: Age, Speech, Language Variation, Auditory Perception
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Drager, Katie – Language and Speech, 2011
Recent research provides evidence that individuals shift in their perception of variants depending on social characteristics attributed to the speaker. This paper reports on a speech perception experiment designed to test the degree to which the age attributed to a speaker influences the perception of vowels undergoing a chain shift. As a result…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Vowels, Social Characteristics