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Modeling language change in English first names
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 7, No 1 (2022): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 5243 ; 2473-8689 (2022)
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Some lexical classes are more susceptible to the effects of sound symbolism, a hypothesized relationship where speech sounds represent non-phonetic properties. Sound symbolic principles are manifested in male and female personal names in English. While previous research found distinct differences between female and male names in English, the current study fills a gap in existing research by adopting a diachronic perspective: male and female names are compared to each other as well as to themselves across time. Statistical analysis was conducted via a generalized additive model in R, using a data of 5600 names sourced from the United States Social Security Administration. The study finds that female names are longer, more likely to end in a vowel, and less likely to have initial primary stress, and that names for both sexes exhibit change over time, shifting towards a pattern previously associated with female names.
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language change; onomastics; Phonology; sound symbolism
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5243 http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/5243
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Back Vowel Dynamics and Distinctions in Southern American English ...
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Marginal Contrast Among Romanian Vowels: Evidence from ASR and Functional Load
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In: Interspeech 2016 ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01453014 ; Interspeech 2016, ISCA, Sep 2016, San Francisco, United States. pp.2433 - 2437, ⟨10.21437/Interspeech.2016-762⟩ ; http://www.interspeech2016.org/ (2016)
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Réalisation phonétique et contraste phonologique marginal : une étude automatique des voyelles du roumain
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In: JEP 2016 ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01452974 ; JEP 2016, Aug 2016, Paris, France (2016)
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A phonologically weak contrast can induce phonetic overlap
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In: Laboratory Phonology Conference ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01837204 ; Laboratory Phonology Conference, Jul 2016, Ithaca, United States (2016)
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Phonetic Distinctiveness vs. Lexical Contrastiveness in Non-Robust Phonemic Contrasts
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In: Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology; Vol 7, No 1 (2016); 19 ; 1868-6354 (2016)
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Vowels of Romanian: Historical, Phonological and Phonetic Studies
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