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Introduction: Tracing the origin of /s/ variation ...
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This paper provides an introduction to the papers in this special issue on the sociophonetics of /s/. We begin by reviewing some of the principal findings on variation in the production and perception of /s/, summarizing studies in sociolinguistics, experimental phonetics, and laboratory phonology. We go on to identify similarities in the meanings associated with /s/ variation cross-linguistically, and briefly describe how theories of sound symbolism may help us to account for these patterns. We conclude this introductory article with a summary of the contributions to the special issue and a discussion of how together these articles help us to better understand that origin and trajectory of socially meaningful sociophonetic variation. ...
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300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology; 400 Language; 410 Linguistics
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URL: https://boris.unibe.ch/152294/
https://dx.doi.org/10.48350/152294
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Changing Pronunciation but Stable Social Evaluation?
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In: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (2013)
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