Repeat what after whom? Exploring variable selectivity in a cross-dialectal shadowing task

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dc.contributorVirginia Tech. Department of Englishen
dc.contributorThe Ohio State University. Department of Linguisticsen
dc.contributor.authorWalker, Abbyen
dc.contributor.authorCampbell-Kibler, Kathrynen
dc.contributor.editorBabel, Mollyen
dc.date.accessed2016-02-12en
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-16T08:03:29Zen
dc.date.available2016-02-16T08:03:29Zen
dc.date.issued2015-05-12en
dc.description.abstractTwenty women from Christchurch, New Zealand and 16 from Columbus Ohio (dialect region U.S. Midland) participated in a bimodal lexical naming task where they repeated monosyllabic words after four speakers from four regional dialects: New Zealand, Australia, U.S. Inland North and U.S. Midland. The resulting utterances were acoustically analyzed, and presented to listeners on Amazon Mechanical Turk in an AXB task. Convergence is observed, but differs depending on the dialect of the speaker, the dialect of the model, the particular word class being shadowed, and the order in which dialects are presented to participants. We argue that these patterns are generally consistent with findings that convergence is promoted by a large phonetic distance between shadower and model (Babel, 2010, contra Kim et al., 2011), and greater existing variability in a vowel class (Babel, 2012). The results also suggest that more comparisons of accommodation toward different dialects are warranted, and that the investigation of the socio-indexical meaning of specific linguistic forms in context is a promising avenue for understanding variable selectivity in convergence.en
dc.description.sponsorshipVirginia Tech. Open Access Subvention Funden
dc.format.extent18 p.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationWalker A., and K. Campbell-Kibler (2015) Repeat what after whom? Exploring variable selectivity in a cross-dialectal shadowing task. Front. Psychol. 6:546. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00546en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00546en
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/64822en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00546/abstracten
dc.identifier.volume6en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.holderWalker, Abbyen
dc.rights.holderCampbell-Kibler, Kathryen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectAccommodationen
dc.subjectSingle-word shadowingen
dc.subjectU.S. Englishen
dc.subjectNew Zealand Englishen
dc.subjectAXB tasken
dc.titleRepeat what after whom? Exploring variable selectivity in a cross-dialectal shadowing tasken
dc.title.serialFrontiers in Psychologyen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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