LIN 1256: Advanced Language Variation & Change (2021)
Sociophonetics of Perception
Reading for the course
There is no textbook to purchase.
A list of assigned readings is provided here. Assigned readings are available through Quercus.
Please note that graduate students must read seriously. This means: pre-reading, taking notes as you read, preparing, asking and answering questions about the readings, looking up terms you don't know, and bringing the relevant articles to class with you (hard copies or on your laptop).
Assigned readings
Abtahian,
M., N. Nagy, K. Pabst & V. Elango. submitted. Disruptions due to COVID-19: Using mixed methods to
identify factors influencing language maintenance and shift. [focus on §3. Methods]
Bajorek, J. 2019.
Voice Recognition Still Has Significant Race and Gender Biases.
Harvard Business Review , May 10, 2019.
Clopper,
C., J. Hay & B. Plichta. 2011. Experimental speech perception and perceptual
dialectology. In M. Di Paolo & M. Yager-Dror, eds. Sociophonetics: A
Student’s guide. Routledge. [Ch. 12]
Drager,
K. 2010. Sociophonetic variation in speech perception. Language and Linguistics
Compass 4(7):473-480.
Eberhardt,
J. 2019. Biased. NY: Viking. [Intro, Chs. 1-3 (excerpts)]
Kendall,
T., & Fridland, V. 2021. Sociophonetics. Cambridge University
Press. [multiple sections]
Kircher, R. and S.
Fox. 2019b. Multicultural London English and its speakers: A corpus-informed
discourse study of standard language ideology and social stereotypes. Journal
of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40(10): 847–864. DOI:
10.1080/01434632.2019.1666856
Levon,
E. & I. Buchstaller. 2015. Perception,
cognition, and linguistic structure: The effect of linguistic modularity and
cognitive style on sociolinguistic processing. Language Variation and Change, 27,
319–348. doi:10.1017/S0954394515000149
Nagy.
N. 2006. Experimental methods for study of linguistic variation. In
K. Brown, ed. Encyclopedia of Language &
Linguistics, 2nd ed.
Oxford: Elsevier. vol. 4, 390-394. ISBN 0-08-044299-4 [just pp. 391-2]
Op-ed Writing: Tips and Tricks. https://www.theopedproject.org/resources#gettingstarted
Regan, B. 2021. The
social meaning of a merger: The evaluation of an Andalusian Spanish consonant
merger (ceceo). Language in Society, 1–30.
Watt,
D., A. Fabricius & T. Kendall 2011. More on vowels: plotting and
normalization. In M. Di Paolo & M. Yaeger-Dror, eds.
Sociophonetics: A Student’s guide. Routledge. [Ch. 9]
For Week 4 Presentations
Babel,
M. & J. Russell. 2015. Expectations and speech intelligibility.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137. 2823–2833.
Baugh,
J. 2003. Linguistic profiling. In Black Linguistics (pp. 167-180).
Routledge.
Hanna,
D. B. 1997. Do I Sound “Asian” to You?: Linguistic Markers of Asian American Identity.
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 4(2), 15.
Newman,
M., & Wu, A. 2011. “Do You Sound Asian When You Speak English?” Racial Identification
and Voice in Chinese and Korean Americans’ English. American Speech,
86(2), 152–178. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1336992
Purnell, T., W. Idsardi & J. Baugh,
1999. Perceptual and phonetic experiments on American English dialect identification. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 18(1), 10-30.
Szakay, A., M. Babel, & J. King. (2012). Sociophonetic markers facilitate translation priming: Maori English GOAT–A different kind of animal. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 18(2), 16.
Wong,
P., & Babel, M. 2017. Perceptual identification of talker ethnicity in
Vancouver English. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 21(5), 603–628. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12264
Or choose another article and let me know!
