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The impact of allophony versus contrast on speech perception
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In: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~kjohnson/papers/Boomershine_et_al_2005.pdf (2008)
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1 Bringing semantics to sociophonetics: Social variables and secondary entailments *
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In: http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Emunso005/SmithHallMunson_InPress.pdf
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Formal semantic approaches to sociophonetic variation
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In: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/%7Espringsym/Smith_Hall_Munson_abstract.pdf
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Abstract:
In this talk, we discuss a novel approach to the question of how sociophonetic meaning could be analyzed that makes use of the tools of formal semantics (see also Smith et al. to appear). We hypothesize that in order to classify sociophonetic meaning, it behooves us to make use of the well-established tests for meaning that have been developed in formal semantics. The approach therefore involves applying conventional semantic tests for types of lexicalized meanings (e.g. presuppositions, conventional implicatures) to sociophonetic variables. We present data from a set of four experiments. In order to determine the meaning of sociophonetic variables (i.e., the conventional association that listeners have when they hear a particular stimulus), it is traditional to use an experimental paradigm and look for significant correlations between sounds and meanings. Traditional semantic tests for meaning, however, are typically applied in a formal paradigm; because such tests are dependent on the logical relations between sentences, it is possible to implement them in the absence of experimental data. In order to apply formal semantic tests to sociophonetic variables, then, it is first necessary to implement the semantic tests in an experimental paradigm. Our first experiment, therefore, is designed to test whether semantic projection tests such as negation (Frege 1896) (i.e., the ‘Family of Sentences ’ tests, Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet 1990) accurately predict response behavior in an experimental setting. The second experiment then uses the same paradigm to elicit judgments on the meaning of the sociophonetic variable /æ/, which is subject to tensing and retraction in Minnesotan English and has been claimed to be linked with the talker’s sexual orientation (Munson et al. 2006). Finding slightly different responses to the /æ/ variation than would be expected given the Munson et al. (2006) findings, we also present the results of two experiments in which we first use our new /æ / recordings in the Munson et al.
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URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.168.5643
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/%7Espringsym/Smith_Hall_Munson_abstract.pdf
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