Joseph A Stanley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph A Stanley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph A |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanley |
| SIGNATURE | STANLEY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9185-0048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards a taxonomy of metalinguistic commentary
The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, we present meta-linguistic commentary about Utah English, organized into comment types, to paint a picture of how Utahns view their local variety. We then take these comments and sketch out a taxonomy of comments that one might make about language. Our work on this taxonomy is preliminary and requires data from many other dialect regions to be of more universal use. Nevertheless, we lay some groundwor…
Hypercorrect Moun[thɨn] in Utah English
This study analyzes unstressed /tən/ in words like button, kitten , and mountain . In Utah, there are three variants: North American mainstream [ʔn̩], forticized [t h ɨn], and local [ʔɨn]. While previous work in Utah has focused on [ʔɨn], I use an auditory analysis of wordlist data from 117 Utahns to show that [t h ɨn] is the majority variant in Utah and is twice as common as in other regions. I argue that fortition is a hypercorrection in respon…
The impact of rubric training on students’ self-efficacy and self-regulated learning
While ESL writing teachers often deal with a heavy feedback workload on student writing, training students to self-assess their own work can ease the burden and empower students, especially if self-assessment increases self-efficacy and self-regulation. A self-assessment method is rubric training where teachers guide students in reading and grading sample essays. This research explores whether rubric training leads to positive emotional and regul…
LTH Affrication
Insertion of a consonant between a sonorant and voiceless obstruent is common in some environments in American English (e.g., prince = prints ). In this paper, we describe a similar process whereby /θ/ is realized as a dental affricate [ t̪͡θ] in the infrequent environment of /lθ/ (e.g., wealth and stealth ), a process we call “LTH affrication.” In audio collected using an online survey from a 265-person sample from the Rocky Mountain region of t…
Testing the effect of speech separation on vowel formant estimates
While recent advances in sociophonetic data processing have made it possible to analyze large datasets and audio not originally intended for linguistic analysis, overlapping speech in recordings with multiple speakers continues to be an issue that results in lost data. We evaluate whether current source separation models produce audio that is clean enough to produce reliable measurements for sociophonetic analysis. We compare formant estimates fr…
The Missionary Voice
In this paper, we report on what we are calling “Missionary Voice,” or a particular way of speaking characteristic to missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first study elicits perceptions of Missionary Voice by Latter-day Saints in the Intermountain West without reference to any particular recording or person. We find a complex, multifaceted indexical field as well as potential linguistic features, uses for Missiona…
Language Change at the Intersections of Movement, Economy, and Orientation
A growing amount of research on North American English varieties shows that many sociolinguistic variables peaked among the Baby Boomer Generation (born approximately 1946-64).By "peak," we mean that a linguistic phenomenon in one community has reached its point of greatest intensity and is maximally divergent from realizations of that same variable in most other North American communities.Similarly, we also find studies that describe a "cliff" b…
Demographic Change, Migration, and the African American Vowel System in Georgia
The theme of this volume is generational trends in language change, with an emphasis on the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition as an important period of time. Many studies have found sharp changes in vowel systems in communities after the Baby Boomer Generation on the East Coast (Thiel and Dinkin 2020) and in the Midwest (Nesbitt 2021). Though we know a great deal about the geographic consistency of the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition, in all of the…
Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English
The late twentieth century in the United States marks the decline of regional vowel systems like the Northern Cities Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift, replaced by supralocal systems like the Low-Back-Merger Shift. We chart such change in acoustic data from seven generations of White speakers ( n = 135) in the Southeastern state of Georgia. We analyze front vowels affected by both the SVS and LBMS ( dress, trap ), plus price and face , known res…
Interpreting the order of operations in a sociophonetic analysis
Sociophonetic data analysis involves a pipeline of processing steps to convert a raw spreadsheet of acoustic measurements to interpretable results. While most studies report the steps used in their pipeline, very few explicitly report their order in which those steps were applied. This study analyzes a dataset containing vowel formant data from 53 speakers by processing it 5,040 unique ways, each representing a different permutation of seven proc…
Regional Patterns in Prevelar Raising
Prevelar raising is the raising of trap and dress vowels before voiced velars. While bag and beg raising have been described in Canada, the Upper Mid-west, and the Pacific Northwest, an in-depth investigation of their distribution across North America is lacking, especially for beg. Using an online survey distributed to over 5,000 participants via Reddit (which skews toward younger, White males) and ordinary kriging for spatial interpolation, thi…
Back Vowel Dynamics and Distinctions in Southern American English
Southern American English is spoken in a large geographic region in the United States. Its characteristics include back-vowel fronting (e.g., in goose, foot, and goat), which has been ongoing since the mid-nineteenth century; meanwhile, the low back vowels (in lot and thought) have recently merged in some areas. We investigate these five vowels in the Digital Archive of Southern Speech, a legacy corpus of linguistic interviews with sixty-four spe…
The Absence of a Religiolect Among Latter-Day Saints in Southwest Washington
The term religiolect was coined by Benjamin Hary (1992, xiii) to describe a variety of language used by a distinct religious community, originally within the context of the Jewish linguistic spectrum. Religion has been shown to play an important role in various aspects of language, such as Arabic loanword adoption among Telugu speakers (Salami 2010), Persian loanwords and greetings among English-speaking Bahá’is (Masumian 2015), fluency in Sanskr…
The Systematic Stretching and Contracting of Ideophonic Phonology in Pastaza Quichua
This paper analyzes systematic differences between sounds used in ideophones and sounds used in the non-ideophonic or “prosaic” lexicon of the Pastaza Quichua language of Amazonian Ecuador. We compare a digitized corpus of vocabulary items with a list of ideophones identified from field observations. We find that if a sound, syllable structure, or stress pattern is distributionally restricted in Pastaza Quichua, it is likely to be normalized and …
The Systematic Stretching and Contracting of Ideophonic Phonology in Pastaza Quichua
This paper analyzes systematic differences between sounds used in ideophones and sounds used in the non-ideophonic or “prosaic” lexicon of the Pastaza Quichua language of Amazonian Ecuador. We compare a digitized corpus of vocabulary items with a list of ideophones identified from field observations. We find that if a sound, syllable structure, or stress pattern is distributionally restricted in Pastaza Quichua, it is likely to be normalized and …
Regional Patterns in Prevelar Raising
Prevelar raising is the raising of trap and dress vowels before voiced velars. While bag and beg raising have been described in Canada, the Upper Mid-west, and the Pacific Northwest, an in-depth investigation of their distribution across North America is lacking, especially for beg. Using an online survey distributed to over 5,000 participants via Reddit (which skews toward younger, White males) and ordinary kriging for spatial interpolation, thi…
Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English
The late twentieth century in the United States marks the decline of regional vowel systems like the Northern Cities Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift, replaced by supralocal systems like the Low-Back-Merger Shift. We chart such change in acoustic data from seven generations of White speakers ( n = 135) in the Southeastern state of Georgia. We analyze front vowels affected by both the SVS and LBMS ( dress, trap ), plus price and face , known res…
The Systematic Stretching and Contracting of Ideophonic Phonology in Pastaza Quichua
This paper analyzes systematic differences between sounds used in ideophones and sounds used in the non-ideophonic or “prosaic” lexicon of the Pastaza Quichua language of Amazonian Ecuador. We compare a digitized corpus of vocabulary items with a list of ideophones identified from field observations. We find that if a sound, syllable structure, or stress pattern is distributionally restricted in Pastaza Quichua, it is likely to be normalized and …
The Absence of a Religiolect Among Latter-Day Saints in Southwest Washington
The term religiolect was coined by Benjamin Hary (1992, xiii) to describe a variety of language used by a distinct religious community, originally within the context of the Jewish linguistic spectrum. Religion has been shown to play an important role in various aspects of language, such as Arabic loanword adoption among Telugu speakers (Salami 2010), Persian loanwords and greetings among English-speaking Bahá’is (Masumian 2015), fluency in Sanskr…
Back Vowel Dynamics and Distinctions in Southern American English
Southern American English is spoken in a large geographic region in the United States. Its characteristics include back-vowel fronting (e.g., in goose, foot, and goat), which has been ongoing since the mid-nineteenth century; meanwhile, the low back vowels (in lot and thought) have recently merged in some areas. We investigate these five vowels in the Digital Archive of Southern Speech, a legacy corpus of linguistic interviews with sixty-four spe…
Interpreting the order of operations in a sociophonetic analysis
Sociophonetic data analysis involves a pipeline of processing steps to convert a raw spreadsheet of acoustic measurements to interpretable results. While most studies report the steps used in their pipeline, very few explicitly report their order in which those steps were applied. This study analyzes a dataset containing vowel formant data from 53 speakers by processing it 5,040 unique ways, each representing a different permutation of seven proc…
Regional Patterns in Prevelar Raising
Prevelar raising is the raising of trap and dress vowels before voiced velars. While bag and beg raising have been described in Canada, the Upper Mid-west, and the Pacific Northwest, an in-depth investigation of their distribution across North America is lacking, especially for beg. Using an online survey distributed to over 5,000 participants via Reddit (which skews toward younger, White males) and ordinary kriging for spatial interpolation, thi…
Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English
The late twentieth century in the United States marks the decline of regional vowel systems like the Northern Cities Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift, replaced by supralocal systems like the Low-Back-Merger Shift. We chart such change in acoustic data from seven generations of White speakers ( n = 135) in the Southeastern state of Georgia. We analyze front vowels affected by both the SVS and LBMS ( dress, trap ), plus price and face , known res…
The Missionary Voice
In this paper, we report on what we are calling “Missionary Voice,” or a particular way of speaking characteristic to missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first study elicits perceptions of Missionary Voice by Latter-day Saints in the Intermountain West without reference to any particular recording or person. We find a complex, multifaceted indexical field as well as potential linguistic features, uses for Missiona…
Language Change at the Intersections of Movement, Economy, and Orientation
A growing amount of research on North American English varieties shows that many sociolinguistic variables peaked among the Baby Boomer Generation (born approximately 1946-64).By "peak," we mean that a linguistic phenomenon in one community has reached its point of greatest intensity and is maximally divergent from realizations of that same variable in most other North American communities.Similarly, we also find studies that describe a "cliff" b…
Demographic Change, Migration, and the African American Vowel System in Georgia
The theme of this volume is generational trends in language change, with an emphasis on the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition as an important period of time. Many studies have found sharp changes in vowel systems in communities after the Baby Boomer Generation on the East Coast (Thiel and Dinkin 2020) and in the Midwest (Nesbitt 2021). Though we know a great deal about the geographic consistency of the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition, in all of the…
The impact of rubric training on students’ self-efficacy and self-regulated learning
While ESL writing teachers often deal with a heavy feedback workload on student writing, training students to self-assess their own work can ease the burden and empower students, especially if self-assessment increases self-efficacy and self-regulation. A self-assessment method is rubric training where teachers guide students in reading and grading sample essays. This research explores whether rubric training leads to positive emotional and regul…
LTH Affrication
Insertion of a consonant between a sonorant and voiceless obstruent is common in some environments in American English (e.g., prince = prints ). In this paper, we describe a similar process whereby /θ/ is realized as a dental affricate [ t̪͡θ] in the infrequent environment of /lθ/ (e.g., wealth and stealth ), a process we call “LTH affrication.” In audio collected using an online survey from a 265-person sample from the Rocky Mountain region of t…
Testing the effect of speech separation on vowel formant estimates
While recent advances in sociophonetic data processing have made it possible to analyze large datasets and audio not originally intended for linguistic analysis, overlapping speech in recordings with multiple speakers continues to be an issue that results in lost data. We evaluate whether current source separation models produce audio that is clean enough to produce reliable measurements for sociophonetic analysis. We compare formant estimates fr…
Towards a taxonomy of metalinguistic commentary
The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, we present meta-linguistic commentary about Utah English, organized into comment types, to paint a picture of how Utahns view their local variety. We then take these comments and sketch out a taxonomy of comments that one might make about language. Our work on this taxonomy is preliminary and requires data from many other dialect regions to be of more universal use. Nevertheless, we lay some groundwor…
Hypercorrect Moun[thɨn] in Utah English
This study analyzes unstressed /tən/ in words like button, kitten , and mountain . In Utah, there are three variants: North American mainstream [ʔn̩], forticized [t h ɨn], and local [ʔɨn]. While previous work in Utah has focused on [ʔɨn], I use an auditory analysis of wordlist data from 117 Utahns to show that [t h ɨn] is the majority variant in Utah and is twice as common as in other regions. I argue that fortition is a hypercorrection in respon…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Vowel (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Formant (3 works)