Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition / Katie K. Drager.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drager, Katie K., author.

Series:

Studies in laboratory phonology ; 2.

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Studies in laboratory phonology ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variations.

Language and languages.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : illustrations (some colour); digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Language Science Press, [2015]

Language Note:

Text in English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Speakers use a variety of different linguistic resources in the construction of their identities, and they are able to do so because their mental representations of linguistic and social information are linked. While the exact nature of these representations remains unclear, there is growing evidence that they encode a great deal more phonetic detail than traditionally assumed and that the phonetic detail is linked with word-based information. This book investigates the ways in which a lemma's phonetic realisation depends on a combination of its grammatical function and the speaker's social group. This question is investigated within the context of the word like as it is produced and perceived by students at an all girls' high school in New Zealand. The results are used to inform an exemplar-based model of speech production and perception in which the quality and frequency of linguistic and non-linguistic variants contribute to a speaker's style.

Contents:

1. The separation of the social and the linguistic

2. Social groups at Selwyn Girls' High

3. Like frequency and phonetic realisations

4. Variation in speech perception

5. Toward a cognitive model of stylistic variation in identity construction

6. Looking forward

A. Measures of familiarity

B. Production data

C. Stimuli for perception experiments

D. Perception experiment data.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-238) and indexes.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9783946234241

OCLC:

1014474697

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_603352