Katie Drager
Biographic Data
| ID | 110962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Drager |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie |
| FAMILY NAME | Drager |
| SIGNATURE | DRAGER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0863-6161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 275 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Kawa and the variable stopping of obstruents in Ende
This paper details a study investigating sociophonetic variation in Ende, a language spoken in Papua New Guinea. The study examines speech produced by 30 individuals, investigating what social and linguistic factors are linked with the variable alternation between stopped and affricated realizations of Ende retroflex obstruents [ʈ͡ʂ~ʈ] and [ɖ͡ʐ~ɖ]. Our analysis provides evidence that the obstruents in question are more likely to be realized as st…
Variedades linguísticas dentro e fora do Brasil
O dossiê temático “Variedades linguísticas dentro e fora do Brasil”, do número 1 do volume 23, é organizado pelos professores Katie Drager (Universidade de Hawai ́i-Mānoa), Albert Olivier Blaise Rilliard (CNRS-UFRJ), Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira (UFRJ) e Marcos Luiz Wiedemer (UERJ/Faperj) no intento de reunir investigações e encaminhamentos teórico-metodológicos de pesquisas, desenvolvidas segundo a perspectivação de variedades de língua(s) a…
Linguistic varieties in Brazil and beyond
The thematic dossier “Linguistic varieties in Brazil and beyond”, from the first issue of volume 23, is organized by professors Katie Drager (University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa), Albert Olivier Blaise Rilliard (CNRS, UFRJ), Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira (UFRJ) and Marcos Luiz Wiedemer (UERJ/Faperj) in an attempt to bring together investigations and theoretical-methodological referrals of studies on language varieties and social dimensions. Together, …
Divergence in speech perception
This paper presents results from an experiment designed to test whether New Zealand listeners' perceptual adaptation towards Australian English is mediated by their attitudes toward Australia, which we attempted to manipulate experimentally. Participants were put into one of three conditions, where they either read good facts about Australia, bad facts about Australia, or no facts about Australia (the control). Participants performed the same lis…
Hearing r-sandhi: The role of past experience
This article reports on patterns in the production and perception of New Zealand English r -sandhi. We report on two phoneme-monitoring experiments that examine whether listeners from three regions are sensitive to the distribution of r -presence in linking and intrusive environments. The results provide evidence that sound perception is affected by a listener's experience-driven expectations: greater prior experience with a sound in a given cont…
Car-talk: Location-specific speech production and perception
Some locations are probabilistically associated with certain types of speech. Most speech that is encountered in a car, for example, will have Lombard-like characteristics as a result of having been produced in the context of car noise. We examine the hypothesis that the association between cars and Lombard speech will trigger Lombard-like speaking and listening behaviour when a person is physically present in a car, even in the absence of noise.…
An acoustic analysis of the vowels of Hawai'i English
This paper provides an acoustic phonetic description of Hawai'i English vowels. The data comprise wordlist tokens produced by twenty-three speakers (twelve males and eleven females) and spontaneous speech tokens produced by ten of those speakers. Analysis of these vowel tokens shows that while there are similarities between Hawai'i English and other dialects, the particular combination of vowel realizations in Hawai'i English is unique to this di…
Exploiting random intercepts: Two case studies in sociophonetics
An increasing number of sociolinguists are using mixed effects models, models which allow for the inclusion of both fixed and random predicting variables. In most analyses, random effect intercepts are treated as a by-product of the model; they are viewed simply as a way to fit a more accurate model. This paper presents additional uses for random effect intercepts within the context of two case studies. Specifically, this paper demonstrates how r…
Speaker Age and Vowel Perception
Recent research provides evidence that individuals shift in their perception of variants depending on social characteristics attributed to the speaker. This paper reports on a speech perception experiment designed to test the degree to which the age attributed to a speaker influences the perception of vowels undergoing a chain shift. As a result of the shift, speakers from different generations produce different variants from one another. Results…
Sociophonetic variation and the lemma
Short-term Exposure to One Dialect Affects Processing of Another
It is well established that speakers accommodate in speech production. Recent work has shown a similar effect in perception—speech perception is affected by a listener’s beliefs about the speaker. In this paper, we explore the consequences of such perceptual accommodation for experiments in speech perception and lexical access. Our interest is whether perceptual accommodation to one speaker—the experimenter who meets participants, for example— mi…
Sociophonetic Variation in Speech Perception
In this paper, I review previous research that investigates sociophonetic variation in speech perception. I also argue that more speech perception work is needed to inform work on variation in speech production, particularly in the areas of language change and stereotype formation. Exploring the mental representations and processing of social and linguistic information as well as treating phonetic and social factors as multidimensional and intera…
Stuffed toys and speech perception
Previous research has shown that speech perception can be influenced by a speaker's social characteristics, including the expected dialect area of the speaker (Niedzielski, Journal of Language and Social Psychology 18: 62–85, 1999; Hay et al. The Linguistic Review 23: 351–379, 2006a). This article reports on an experiment designed to test to degree to which exposure to the concept of a region can also influence perception. In order to invoke the …
Careful Who You Talk to: An Effect of Experimenter Identity on the Production of the Near/SQUARE Merger in New Zealand English
This paper reports on results from a production experiment conducted in New Zealand, where the diphthongs and are involved in a merger-in-progress. The results suggest that the cognitive status of and word pairs as being the ‘same’ or ‘different’ is not entirely related to their production. This status could be affected by functional load: words that could lead to contextual ambiguity may seem more different than those for which the distinction i…
Sociophonetics
Investigators have recently made impressive progress in multiple areas of sociophonetics. One area is the use of increasingly sophisticated phonetic analysis, which is demonstrating that very fine phonetic detail is used for the construction of social identity. A second area is the use of ethnographic approaches, which enable researchers to break free from using traditional social categories that may not be relevant for a particular group of spea…
From fush to feesh: Exemplar priming in speech perception
Niedzielski (1999) reports on an experiment which demonstrates that individuals in Detroit ‘hear’ more Canadian Raising in the speech of a speaker when they think that speaker is Canadian. We describe an experiment designed to follow up on this result in a New Zealand context. Participants listened to a New Zealand English (NZE) speaker reading a list of sentences. Each sentence appeared on the answer-sheet, with a target word underlined. For eac…
Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a merger-in-progress
Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a merger-in-progress
Stuffed toys and speech perception
Previous research has shown that speech perception can be influenced by a speaker's social characteristics, including the expected dialect area of the speaker (Niedzielski, Journal of Language and Social Psychology 18: 62–85, 1999; Hay et al. The Linguistic Review 23: 351–379, 2006a). This article reports on an experiment designed to test to degree to which exposure to the concept of a region can also influence perception. In order to invoke the …
Sociophonetic Variation in Speech Perception
In this paper, I review previous research that investigates sociophonetic variation in speech perception. I also argue that more speech perception work is needed to inform work on variation in speech production, particularly in the areas of language change and stereotype formation. Exploring the mental representations and processing of social and linguistic information as well as treating phonetic and social factors as multidimensional and intera…
Sociophonetics
Investigators have recently made impressive progress in multiple areas of sociophonetics. One area is the use of increasingly sophisticated phonetic analysis, which is demonstrating that very fine phonetic detail is used for the construction of social identity. A second area is the use of ethnographic approaches, which enable researchers to break free from using traditional social categories that may not be relevant for a particular group of spea…
Speaker Age and Vowel Perception
Recent research provides evidence that individuals shift in their perception of variants depending on social characteristics attributed to the speaker. This paper reports on a speech perception experiment designed to test the degree to which the age attributed to a speaker influences the perception of vowels undergoing a chain shift. As a result of the shift, speakers from different generations produce different variants from one another. Results…
Exploiting random intercepts: Two case studies in sociophonetics
An increasing number of sociolinguists are using mixed effects models, models which allow for the inclusion of both fixed and random predicting variables. In most analyses, random effect intercepts are treated as a by-product of the model; they are viewed simply as a way to fit a more accurate model. This paper presents additional uses for random effect intercepts within the context of two case studies. Specifically, this paper demonstrates how r…
Sociophonetic variation and the lemma
Car-talk: Location-specific speech production and perception
Some locations are probabilistically associated with certain types of speech. Most speech that is encountered in a car, for example, will have Lombard-like characteristics as a result of having been produced in the context of car noise. We examine the hypothesis that the association between cars and Lombard speech will trigger Lombard-like speaking and listening behaviour when a person is physically present in a car, even in the absence of noise.…
Short-term Exposure to One Dialect Affects Processing of Another
It is well established that speakers accommodate in speech production. Recent work has shown a similar effect in perception—speech perception is affected by a listener’s beliefs about the speaker. In this paper, we explore the consequences of such perceptual accommodation for experiments in speech perception and lexical access. Our interest is whether perceptual accommodation to one speaker—the experimenter who meets participants, for example— mi…
Careful Who You Talk to: An Effect of Experimenter Identity on the Production of the Near/SQUARE Merger in New Zealand English
This paper reports on results from a production experiment conducted in New Zealand, where the diphthongs and are involved in a merger-in-progress. The results suggest that the cognitive status of and word pairs as being the ‘same’ or ‘different’ is not entirely related to their production. This status could be affected by functional load: words that could lead to contextual ambiguity may seem more different than those for which the distinction i…
Divergence in speech perception
This paper presents results from an experiment designed to test whether New Zealand listeners' perceptual adaptation towards Australian English is mediated by their attitudes toward Australia, which we attempted to manipulate experimentally. Participants were put into one of three conditions, where they either read good facts about Australia, bad facts about Australia, or no facts about Australia (the control). Participants performed the same lis…
An acoustic analysis of the vowels of Hawai'i English
This paper provides an acoustic phonetic description of Hawai'i English vowels. The data comprise wordlist tokens produced by twenty-three speakers (twelve males and eleven females) and spontaneous speech tokens produced by ten of those speakers. Analysis of these vowel tokens shows that while there are similarities between Hawai'i English and other dialects, the particular combination of vowel realizations in Hawai'i English is unique to this di…
Hearing r-sandhi: The role of past experience
This article reports on patterns in the production and perception of New Zealand English r -sandhi. We report on two phoneme-monitoring experiments that examine whether listeners from three regions are sensitive to the distribution of r -presence in linking and intrusive environments. The results provide evidence that sound perception is affected by a listener's experience-driven expectations: greater prior experience with a sound in a given cont…
From fush to feesh: Exemplar priming in speech perception
Niedzielski (1999) reports on an experiment which demonstrates that individuals in Detroit ‘hear’ more Canadian Raising in the speech of a speaker when they think that speaker is Canadian. We describe an experiment designed to follow up on this result in a New Zealand context. Participants listened to a New Zealand English (NZE) speaker reading a list of sentences. Each sentence appeared on the answer-sheet, with a target word underlined. For eac…
Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a merger-in-progress
Sociophonetics
Investigators have recently made impressive progress in multiple areas of sociophonetics. One area is the use of increasingly sophisticated phonetic analysis, which is demonstrating that very fine phonetic detail is used for the construction of social identity. A second area is the use of ethnographic approaches, which enable researchers to break free from using traditional social categories that may not be relevant for a particular group of spea…
Careful Who You Talk to: An Effect of Experimenter Identity on the Production of the Near/SQUARE Merger in New Zealand English
This paper reports on results from a production experiment conducted in New Zealand, where the diphthongs and are involved in a merger-in-progress. The results suggest that the cognitive status of and word pairs as being the ‘same’ or ‘different’ is not entirely related to their production. This status could be affected by functional load: words that could lead to contextual ambiguity may seem more different than those for which the distinction i…
Short-term Exposure to One Dialect Affects Processing of Another
It is well established that speakers accommodate in speech production. Recent work has shown a similar effect in perception—speech perception is affected by a listener’s beliefs about the speaker. In this paper, we explore the consequences of such perceptual accommodation for experiments in speech perception and lexical access. Our interest is whether perceptual accommodation to one speaker—the experimenter who meets participants, for example— mi…
Sociophonetic Variation in Speech Perception
In this paper, I review previous research that investigates sociophonetic variation in speech perception. I also argue that more speech perception work is needed to inform work on variation in speech production, particularly in the areas of language change and stereotype formation. Exploring the mental representations and processing of social and linguistic information as well as treating phonetic and social factors as multidimensional and intera…
Stuffed toys and speech perception
Previous research has shown that speech perception can be influenced by a speaker's social characteristics, including the expected dialect area of the speaker (Niedzielski, Journal of Language and Social Psychology 18: 62–85, 1999; Hay et al. The Linguistic Review 23: 351–379, 2006a). This article reports on an experiment designed to test to degree to which exposure to the concept of a region can also influence perception. In order to invoke the …
Speaker Age and Vowel Perception
Recent research provides evidence that individuals shift in their perception of variants depending on social characteristics attributed to the speaker. This paper reports on a speech perception experiment designed to test the degree to which the age attributed to a speaker influences the perception of vowels undergoing a chain shift. As a result of the shift, speakers from different generations produce different variants from one another. Results…
Sociophonetic variation and the lemma
Exploiting random intercepts: Two case studies in sociophonetics
An increasing number of sociolinguists are using mixed effects models, models which allow for the inclusion of both fixed and random predicting variables. In most analyses, random effect intercepts are treated as a by-product of the model; they are viewed simply as a way to fit a more accurate model. This paper presents additional uses for random effect intercepts within the context of two case studies. Specifically, this paper demonstrates how r…
An acoustic analysis of the vowels of Hawai'i English
This paper provides an acoustic phonetic description of Hawai'i English vowels. The data comprise wordlist tokens produced by twenty-three speakers (twelve males and eleven females) and spontaneous speech tokens produced by ten of those speakers. Analysis of these vowel tokens shows that while there are similarities between Hawai'i English and other dialects, the particular combination of vowel realizations in Hawai'i English is unique to this di…
Car-talk: Location-specific speech production and perception
Some locations are probabilistically associated with certain types of speech. Most speech that is encountered in a car, for example, will have Lombard-like characteristics as a result of having been produced in the context of car noise. We examine the hypothesis that the association between cars and Lombard speech will trigger Lombard-like speaking and listening behaviour when a person is physically present in a car, even in the absence of noise.…
Divergence in speech perception
This paper presents results from an experiment designed to test whether New Zealand listeners' perceptual adaptation towards Australian English is mediated by their attitudes toward Australia, which we attempted to manipulate experimentally. Participants were put into one of three conditions, where they either read good facts about Australia, bad facts about Australia, or no facts about Australia (the control). Participants performed the same lis…
Hearing r-sandhi: The role of past experience
This article reports on patterns in the production and perception of New Zealand English r -sandhi. We report on two phoneme-monitoring experiments that examine whether listeners from three regions are sensitive to the distribution of r -presence in linking and intrusive environments. The results provide evidence that sound perception is affected by a listener's experience-driven expectations: greater prior experience with a sound in a given cont…
Variedades linguísticas dentro e fora do Brasil
O dossiê temático “Variedades linguísticas dentro e fora do Brasil”, do número 1 do volume 23, é organizado pelos professores Katie Drager (Universidade de Hawai ́i-Mānoa), Albert Olivier Blaise Rilliard (CNRS-UFRJ), Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira (UFRJ) e Marcos Luiz Wiedemer (UERJ/Faperj) no intento de reunir investigações e encaminhamentos teórico-metodológicos de pesquisas, desenvolvidas segundo a perspectivação de variedades de língua(s) a…
Linguistic varieties in Brazil and beyond
The thematic dossier “Linguistic varieties in Brazil and beyond”, from the first issue of volume 23, is organized by professors Katie Drager (University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa), Albert Olivier Blaise Rilliard (CNRS, UFRJ), Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira (UFRJ) and Marcos Luiz Wiedemer (UERJ/Faperj) in an attempt to bring together investigations and theoretical-methodological referrals of studies on language varieties and social dimensions. Together, …
Kawa and the variable stopping of obstruents in Ende
This paper details a study investigating sociophonetic variation in Ende, a language spoken in Papua New Guinea. The study examines speech produced by 30 individuals, investigating what social and linguistic factors are linked with the variable alternation between stopped and affricated realizations of Ende retroflex obstruents [ʈ͡ʂ~ʈ] and [ɖ͡ʐ~ɖ]. Our analysis provides evidence that the obstruents in question are more likely to be realized as st…
Linguistics (15 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (15 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Perception (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Speech perception (7 works)