Robert J Podesva
Biographic Data
| ID | 1249129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Podesva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Podesva |
| SIGNATURE | PODESVA R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3691-9508 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Understanding voice quality variation by attending to multiple phonetic dimensions: The rise of creaky voice in California
While many phonological variables can be captured by single acoustic correlates, others must be described along several dimensions. This paper examines multiple properties of creaky voice to facilitate an understanding of phonatory variation. We evaluate the ideology that creak is most prevalent among young women using replicable, automated methods on a large, socially diverse sample. We take three approaches to quantifying creak: binary classifi…
The Low Vowels in California's Central Valley
Research Article| December 01 2016 2. THE LOW VOWELS IN California's CENTRAL VALLEY Annette D'Onofrio; Annette D'Onofrio Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Penelope Eckert; Penelope Eckert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert J. Podesva; Robert J. Podesva Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Teresa Pratt; Teresa Pratt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goo…
Cans and cants: Computational potentials for multimodality with a case study in head position
As the study of embodiment and multimodality in interaction grows in importance, there is a need for novel methodological approaches to understand how multimodal variables pattern together along social and contextual lines, and how they systematically coalesce in communicative meanings. In this work, we propose to adopt computational tools to generate replicable annotations of bodily variables: these can be examined statistically to understand th…
Voice Quality and Identity
Variation in voice quality has long been recognized to have functions beyond the grammatically distinctive or phonetically useful roles it plays in many languages, indexing information about the speaker, participating in the construction of stance in interaction, or serving to identify the speaker as a unique individual. Though the links between voice quality and identity have been studied in phonetics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, …
Country ideology and the California Vowel Shift
Addressing the dearth of variation research in nonurban, noncoastal regions of California, this study examines the extent to which speakers in Redding, an inland community just north of the Central Valley, participate in the California Vowel Shift (CVS). We acoustically analyze the fronting of the back vowels boot and boat , the raising of ban and backing of bat , and the merger of bot and bought, in sociolinguistic interviews with 30 white lifel…
Constraints on the social meaning of released /t: A production and perception study of U.S. politicians
Previous studies on released /t/ collectively suggest that the linguistic feature is associated with intelligence and education, social meanings that can be recruited in constructing articulate personas. This study examines the production of released /t/ by six prominent U.S. political figures, as well as the social meanings listeners attribute to the variant. Employing a matched guise technique facilitated by digital stimulus manipulation, we fi…
Research Methods in Linguistics
A comprehensive guide to conducting research projects in linguistics, this book provides a complete training in state-of-the-art data collection, processing, and analysis techniques. The book follows the structure of a research project, guiding the reader through the steps involved in collecting and processing data, and providing a solid foundation for linguistic analysis. All major research methods are covered, each by a leading expert. Rather t…
Salience and the Social Meaning of Declarative Contours: Three Case Studies of Gay Professionals
Most studies exploring the social meaning of variation have focused on phonological variables at the segmental level. This article investigates the social meaning of intonational variation in the speech of three gay professionals. To examine how intonational meanings can be exploited as symbolic resources, this study takes an intraspeaker approach, inspecting declarative intonation patterns across three situations per speaker. The analysis reveal…
Gender and the social meaning of non-modal phonation types
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp. 427-448
Sociophonetics and Sexuality: Toward a Symbiosis of Sociolinguistics and Laboratory Phonology
The California Vowel Shift and Gay Identity
Research on the acoustic correlates of sounding gay has underexamined the role of regional accent features like vowel quality. This article explores the potential connection between the California Vowel Shift (CVS) and gay identity by investigating intraspeaker vowel variation in the speech of one gay man from California (Regan). An acoustic analysis reveals significantly more shifted variants of four components of the CVS (fronting of BOOT and B…
Style, indexicality, and the social meaning of tag questions
This article illustrates how the notions of style and indexicality can illuminate understanding of the social meaning of a specific linguistic variable, the tag question. Drawing on conversational speech and ethnographic data from a community of high school girls in northwest England, it quantitatively and qualitatively examines the discourse, grammatical, and phonological design of tag questions in this community. Members of four social groups a…
Phonation type as a stylistic variable: The use of falsetto in constructing a persona 1
Although the field of sociolinguistics has witnessed a growing interest in the sociophonetic aspects of segmental and intonational variation, few studies have examined variation in voice quality. This paper addresses the gap by investigating the stylistic use of falsetto phonation. Focusing on the speech of Heath, a speaker exhibiting considerable cross‐situational variation, I show that when attending a barbecue with friends, Heath's falsetto is…
Phonation type as a stylistic variable: The use of falsetto in constructing a persona 1
Although the field of sociolinguistics has witnessed a growing interest in the sociophonetic aspects of segmental and intonational variation, few studies have examined variation in voice quality. This paper addresses the gap by investigating the stylistic use of falsetto phonation. Focusing on the speech of Heath, a speaker exhibiting considerable cross‐situational variation, I show that when attending a barbecue with friends, Heath's falsetto is…
The California Vowel Shift and Gay Identity
Research on the acoustic correlates of sounding gay has underexamined the role of regional accent features like vowel quality. This article explores the potential connection between the California Vowel Shift (CVS) and gay identity by investigating intraspeaker vowel variation in the speech of one gay man from California (Regan). An acoustic analysis reveals significantly more shifted variants of four components of the CVS (fronting of BOOT and B…
Style, indexicality, and the social meaning of tag questions
This article illustrates how the notions of style and indexicality can illuminate understanding of the social meaning of a specific linguistic variable, the tag question. Drawing on conversational speech and ethnographic data from a community of high school girls in northwest England, it quantitatively and qualitatively examines the discourse, grammatical, and phonological design of tag questions in this community. Members of four social groups a…
Constraints on the social meaning of released /t: A production and perception study of U.S. politicians
Previous studies on released /t/ collectively suggest that the linguistic feature is associated with intelligence and education, social meanings that can be recruited in constructing articulate personas. This study examines the production of released /t/ by six prominent U.S. political figures, as well as the social meanings listeners attribute to the variant. Employing a matched guise technique facilitated by digital stimulus manipulation, we fi…
Country ideology and the California Vowel Shift
Addressing the dearth of variation research in nonurban, noncoastal regions of California, this study examines the extent to which speakers in Redding, an inland community just north of the Central Valley, participate in the California Vowel Shift (CVS). We acoustically analyze the fronting of the back vowels boot and boat , the raising of ban and backing of bat , and the merger of bot and bought, in sociolinguistic interviews with 30 white lifel…
Sociophonetics and Sexuality: Toward a Symbiosis of Sociolinguistics and Laboratory Phonology
Cans and cants: Computational potentials for multimodality with a case study in head position
As the study of embodiment and multimodality in interaction grows in importance, there is a need for novel methodological approaches to understand how multimodal variables pattern together along social and contextual lines, and how they systematically coalesce in communicative meanings. In this work, we propose to adopt computational tools to generate replicable annotations of bodily variables: these can be examined statistically to understand th…
Phonation type as a stylistic variable: The use of falsetto in constructing a persona 1
Although the field of sociolinguistics has witnessed a growing interest in the sociophonetic aspects of segmental and intonational variation, few studies have examined variation in voice quality. This paper addresses the gap by investigating the stylistic use of falsetto phonation. Focusing on the speech of Heath, a speaker exhibiting considerable cross‐situational variation, I show that when attending a barbecue with friends, Heath's falsetto is…
Style, indexicality, and the social meaning of tag questions
This article illustrates how the notions of style and indexicality can illuminate understanding of the social meaning of a specific linguistic variable, the tag question. Drawing on conversational speech and ethnographic data from a community of high school girls in northwest England, it quantitatively and qualitatively examines the discourse, grammatical, and phonological design of tag questions in this community. Members of four social groups a…
Salience and the Social Meaning of Declarative Contours: Three Case Studies of Gay Professionals
Most studies exploring the social meaning of variation have focused on phonological variables at the segmental level. This article investigates the social meaning of intonational variation in the speech of three gay professionals. To examine how intonational meanings can be exploited as symbolic resources, this study takes an intraspeaker approach, inspecting declarative intonation patterns across three situations per speaker. The analysis reveal…
Gender and the social meaning of non-modal phonation types
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp. 427-448
Sociophonetics and Sexuality: Toward a Symbiosis of Sociolinguistics and Laboratory Phonology
The California Vowel Shift and Gay Identity
Research on the acoustic correlates of sounding gay has underexamined the role of regional accent features like vowel quality. This article explores the potential connection between the California Vowel Shift (CVS) and gay identity by investigating intraspeaker vowel variation in the speech of one gay man from California (Regan). An acoustic analysis reveals significantly more shifted variants of four components of the CVS (fronting of BOOT and B…
Research Methods in Linguistics
A comprehensive guide to conducting research projects in linguistics, this book provides a complete training in state-of-the-art data collection, processing, and analysis techniques. The book follows the structure of a research project, guiding the reader through the steps involved in collecting and processing data, and providing a solid foundation for linguistic analysis. All major research methods are covered, each by a leading expert. Rather t…
Voice Quality and Identity
Variation in voice quality has long been recognized to have functions beyond the grammatically distinctive or phonetically useful roles it plays in many languages, indexing information about the speaker, participating in the construction of stance in interaction, or serving to identify the speaker as a unique individual. Though the links between voice quality and identity have been studied in phonetics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, …
Country ideology and the California Vowel Shift
Addressing the dearth of variation research in nonurban, noncoastal regions of California, this study examines the extent to which speakers in Redding, an inland community just north of the Central Valley, participate in the California Vowel Shift (CVS). We acoustically analyze the fronting of the back vowels boot and boat , the raising of ban and backing of bat , and the merger of bot and bought, in sociolinguistic interviews with 30 white lifel…
Constraints on the social meaning of released /t: A production and perception study of U.S. politicians
Previous studies on released /t/ collectively suggest that the linguistic feature is associated with intelligence and education, social meanings that can be recruited in constructing articulate personas. This study examines the production of released /t/ by six prominent U.S. political figures, as well as the social meanings listeners attribute to the variant. Employing a matched guise technique facilitated by digital stimulus manipulation, we fi…
The Low Vowels in California's Central Valley
Research Article| December 01 2016 2. THE LOW VOWELS IN California's CENTRAL VALLEY Annette D'Onofrio; Annette D'Onofrio Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Penelope Eckert; Penelope Eckert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert J. Podesva; Robert J. Podesva Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Teresa Pratt; Teresa Pratt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goo…
Cans and cants: Computational potentials for multimodality with a case study in head position
As the study of embodiment and multimodality in interaction grows in importance, there is a need for novel methodological approaches to understand how multimodal variables pattern together along social and contextual lines, and how they systematically coalesce in communicative meanings. In this work, we propose to adopt computational tools to generate replicable annotations of bodily variables: these can be examined statistically to understand th…
Understanding voice quality variation by attending to multiple phonetic dimensions: The rise of creaky voice in California
While many phonological variables can be captured by single acoustic correlates, others must be described along several dimensions. This paper examines multiple properties of creaky voice to facilitate an understanding of phonatory variation. We evaluate the ideology that creak is most prevalent among young women using replicable, automated methods on a large, socially diverse sample. We take three approaches to quantifying creak: binary classifi…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)