Lynn Clark
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3624231 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lynn Clark |
| PRENOMES | Lynn |
| SOBRENOME | Clark |
| ASSINATURA | CLARK L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3282-6555 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1959 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
How stable are patterns of covariation across time
Recent research into vowel covariation has suggested that speakers can be identified as leaders or laggers in multiple ongoing sound changes. What remains unclear is how stable a speaker’s patterns of covariation are over time and whether these leaders and laggers of sound changes remain leaders and laggers over time. We employ corpus data from 51 New Zealand English (NZE) speakers who were recorded at two time-points (eight years apart) and expl…
Vowel variation in a segregated and isolated religious community
While New Zealand English (NZE) is a highly researched variety of English due to its variable monophthongal system, one community in New Zealand remains greatly under-researched — the Gloriavale Christian Community. This community gives us a laboratory insight into how new dialect formation (NDF) and isolation interplay in the formation of a new accent. Furthermore, we investigate how this accent may differ by gender as the community exhibits hig…
The overlooked effect of amplitude on within-speaker vowel variation
We analyse variation in vowel production within monologues produced by speakers in a quiet, well-controlled environment. Using principal component analysis (PCA) and generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), applied to a large corpus of naturalistic recordings of New Zealand English speakers, we show that the first formant of monophthongs varies significantly with variation in a speaker’s relative amplitude. We also find that amplitude variation…
Using principal component analysis to explore co‐variation of vowels
This paper presents a methodology for exploring systematic co‐variation of vowels using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). As a case study, we examine and build on Brand et al.'s (2021) study of systematic co‐variation amongst the monophthongs of New Zealand English (NZE) across speakers born over a 118‐year time period. We present PCA as a methodology, with information aimed at readers who may themselves want to use it in a related context. We …
Lessons learned
The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially altered the fabric of life around the globe, raising crucial questions about the nature of language usage in person and online. But as researchers embark on new studies (or continuations of pre-COVID research), just as essential are considerations of what our responsibilities as researchers are to our participants now. In this article, we share our reflections upon the experience of conducting research in t…
Intraspeaker Priming across the New Zealand English Short Front Vowel Shift
A growing body of research in psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics shows that we have a strong tendency to repeat linguistic material that we have recently produced, seen, or heard. The present paper investigates whether priming effects manifest in continuous phonetic variation the way it has been reported in phonological, morphological, and syntactic variation. We analyzed nearly 60,000 tokens of vowels involved in the New…
Gender separation and the speech community
The existence of a shared constraint hierarchy is one of the criteria that defines and delimits speech communities. In particular, women and men are thought to differ only in their rates of variable usage, not in the constraints governing their variation; that is, women and men are typically considered to belong to the same speech community. We find that in early twentieth century Southland, New Zealand, women and men had different constraint hie…
Systematic co-variation of monophthongs across speakers of New Zealand English
The study of phonetic variation and change has tended to concentrate on particular variables in isolation, and it has proven challenging to move beyond an analysis of individual variables or small groups of variables, towards a better theoretical and empirical understanding of entire vowel systems. We develop a methodology that facilitates the study of co-variation, and introduce a large scale analysis of how elements of full sound systems co-var…
“Kia ora. This is my earthquake story”. Multiple applications of a sociolinguistic corpus
This paper demonstrates how spoken data, collected using sociolinguistic methods, can have \nmultiple applications. It can be a resource for tackling real-world problems, it can be a platform for \ncommunity engagement and it can function as a source of data for academic research (both linguistic \nand non-linguistic research). The spoken data we describe is a new corpus of monologues called the \nUC QuakeBox corpus. First, we introduce and demon…
Phonological leveling, diffusion, and divergence
This paper examines the phonological leveling and diffusion of variants of /t/ in Liverpool, northwest England, and two localities in its hinterland. We show that lenited realizations of /t/, thought to be historically restricted to Liverpool, are increasing over time and spreading over geographical space. We explore Labov's (2007) claims that linguistic changes that progress via transmission, within a speech community, are reproduced in all thei…
Exploring listeners’ real-time reactions to regional accents
Evaluative reactions to language stimuli are presumably dynamic events, constantly changing through time as the signal unfolds, yet the tools we usually use to capture these reactions provide us with only a snapshot of this process by recording reactions at a single point in time. This paper outlines and evaluates a new methodology which employs audience response data collection techniques to capture listeners’ real-time reactions to variation in…
Teenagers’ acquisition of variation
In recent years, the UK has experienced unparalleled numbers of migrants from Eastern Europe, particularly Poland. Many migrants came with their families. We examined variation in the English spoken by adolescent Polish migrants in Edinburgh and London. We asked: to what extent are teenage Polish migrants acquiring the patterns of variation typical of their local peer group? We compare the results for the well-known variable (ing) in the speech o…
The acquisition of sociolinguistic evaluations among Polish-born adolescents learning English
In order to achieve full native-like competence in a second language, speakers must also acquire sociolinguistic awareness in that language. This paper reports the results of a study investigating the acquisition of sociolinguistic awareness among immigrant Polish adolescents learning English in the UK. This paper asks whether Polish-born adolescents living in the UK can identify different varieties of British English as well as their native-spea…
Re-examining vocalic variation in Scottish English
The existing literature on vocalic variation in Scottish English has shown that variation tends to pattern according to the age, gender, and socioeconomic class of the speaker. However, studies that employ these gross social categories are unable to explain the variation that exists within these categories. This article therefore presents an alternative approach. Based on data from 16 adolescents who form a community of practice in west Fife, Sco…
Indochinese Refugees in Canada
In July 1979, the government of Canada issued a new policy which raised the quota of Indochinese refugees to 50,000 and introduced the one-to-one matching formula between privately and government sponsored refu? gees.1 Since the admission of the total target number of refugees was made dependent upon the prior initiative of civic groups to sponsor their share of 25,000, the private sector was, in effect, invited to enter into partnership with the…
Indochinese Refugees in Canada
Characteristics of Minority Group Families Who Have Tried to Move Into White Neighborhoods1
In a survey of 686 minority group families, there were 97, or 14 pet cent of the total sample, who had tried to move into white neighborhoods. Some of these had been successful, while the efforts of others had been thwarted for various reasons. An analysis of the characteristics of this 14 pet cent shows many interesting social as well as economic traits. The attitude that members of minority groups want to be isolated with their own finds little…
Teenagers’ acquisition of variation
In recent years, the UK has experienced unparalleled numbers of migrants from Eastern Europe, particularly Poland. Many migrants came with their families. We examined variation in the English spoken by adolescent Polish migrants in Edinburgh and London. We asked: to what extent are teenage Polish migrants acquiring the patterns of variation typical of their local peer group? We compare the results for the well-known variable (ing) in the speech o…
Systematic co-variation of monophthongs across speakers of New Zealand English
The study of phonetic variation and change has tended to concentrate on particular variables in isolation, and it has proven challenging to move beyond an analysis of individual variables or small groups of variables, towards a better theoretical and empirical understanding of entire vowel systems. We develop a methodology that facilitates the study of co-variation, and introduce a large scale analysis of how elements of full sound systems co-var…
Phonological leveling, diffusion, and divergence
This paper examines the phonological leveling and diffusion of variants of /t/ in Liverpool, northwest England, and two localities in its hinterland. We show that lenited realizations of /t/, thought to be historically restricted to Liverpool, are increasing over time and spreading over geographical space. We explore Labov's (2007) claims that linguistic changes that progress via transmission, within a speech community, are reproduced in all thei…
Indochinese Refugees in Canada
In July 1979, the government of Canada issued a new policy which raised the quota of Indochinese refugees to 50,000 and introduced the one-to-one matching formula between privately and government sponsored refu? gees.1 Since the admission of the total target number of refugees was made dependent upon the prior initiative of civic groups to sponsor their share of 25,000, the private sector was, in effect, invited to enter into partnership with the…
Indochinese Refugees in Canada
Gender separation and the speech community
The existence of a shared constraint hierarchy is one of the criteria that defines and delimits speech communities. In particular, women and men are thought to differ only in their rates of variable usage, not in the constraints governing their variation; that is, women and men are typically considered to belong to the same speech community. We find that in early twentieth century Southland, New Zealand, women and men had different constraint hie…
How stable are patterns of covariation across time
Recent research into vowel covariation has suggested that speakers can be identified as leaders or laggers in multiple ongoing sound changes. What remains unclear is how stable a speaker’s patterns of covariation are over time and whether these leaders and laggers of sound changes remain leaders and laggers over time. We employ corpus data from 51 New Zealand English (NZE) speakers who were recorded at two time-points (eight years apart) and expl…
Using principal component analysis to explore co‐variation of vowels
This paper presents a methodology for exploring systematic co‐variation of vowels using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). As a case study, we examine and build on Brand et al.'s (2021) study of systematic co‐variation amongst the monophthongs of New Zealand English (NZE) across speakers born over a 118‐year time period. We present PCA as a methodology, with information aimed at readers who may themselves want to use it in a related context. We …
Intraspeaker Priming across the New Zealand English Short Front Vowel Shift
A growing body of research in psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics shows that we have a strong tendency to repeat linguistic material that we have recently produced, seen, or heard. The present paper investigates whether priming effects manifest in continuous phonetic variation the way it has been reported in phonological, morphological, and syntactic variation. We analyzed nearly 60,000 tokens of vowels involved in the New…
Re-examining vocalic variation in Scottish English
The existing literature on vocalic variation in Scottish English has shown that variation tends to pattern according to the age, gender, and socioeconomic class of the speaker. However, studies that employ these gross social categories are unable to explain the variation that exists within these categories. This article therefore presents an alternative approach. Based on data from 16 adolescents who form a community of practice in west Fife, Sco…
Characteristics of Minority Group Families Who Have Tried to Move Into White Neighborhoods1
In a survey of 686 minority group families, there were 97, or 14 pet cent of the total sample, who had tried to move into white neighborhoods. Some of these had been successful, while the efforts of others had been thwarted for various reasons. An analysis of the characteristics of this 14 pet cent shows many interesting social as well as economic traits. The attitude that members of minority groups want to be isolated with their own finds little…
Characteristics of Minority Group Families Who Have Tried to Move Into White Neighborhoods1
In a survey of 686 minority group families, there were 97, or 14 pet cent of the total sample, who had tried to move into white neighborhoods. Some of these had been successful, while the efforts of others had been thwarted for various reasons. An analysis of the characteristics of this 14 pet cent shows many interesting social as well as economic traits. The attitude that members of minority groups want to be isolated with their own finds little…
Indochinese Refugees in Canada
In July 1979, the government of Canada issued a new policy which raised the quota of Indochinese refugees to 50,000 and introduced the one-to-one matching formula between privately and government sponsored refu? gees.1 Since the admission of the total target number of refugees was made dependent upon the prior initiative of civic groups to sponsor their share of 25,000, the private sector was, in effect, invited to enter into partnership with the…
Indochinese Refugees in Canada
Re-examining vocalic variation in Scottish English
The existing literature on vocalic variation in Scottish English has shown that variation tends to pattern according to the age, gender, and socioeconomic class of the speaker. However, studies that employ these gross social categories are unable to explain the variation that exists within these categories. This article therefore presents an alternative approach. Based on data from 16 adolescents who form a community of practice in west Fife, Sco…
The acquisition of sociolinguistic evaluations among Polish-born adolescents learning English
In order to achieve full native-like competence in a second language, speakers must also acquire sociolinguistic awareness in that language. This paper reports the results of a study investigating the acquisition of sociolinguistic awareness among immigrant Polish adolescents learning English in the UK. This paper asks whether Polish-born adolescents living in the UK can identify different varieties of British English as well as their native-spea…
Teenagers’ acquisition of variation
In recent years, the UK has experienced unparalleled numbers of migrants from Eastern Europe, particularly Poland. Many migrants came with their families. We examined variation in the English spoken by adolescent Polish migrants in Edinburgh and London. We asked: to what extent are teenage Polish migrants acquiring the patterns of variation typical of their local peer group? We compare the results for the well-known variable (ing) in the speech o…
Exploring listeners’ real-time reactions to regional accents
Evaluative reactions to language stimuli are presumably dynamic events, constantly changing through time as the signal unfolds, yet the tools we usually use to capture these reactions provide us with only a snapshot of this process by recording reactions at a single point in time. This paper outlines and evaluates a new methodology which employs audience response data collection techniques to capture listeners’ real-time reactions to variation in…
“Kia ora. This is my earthquake story”. Multiple applications of a sociolinguistic corpus
This paper demonstrates how spoken data, collected using sociolinguistic methods, can have \nmultiple applications. It can be a resource for tackling real-world problems, it can be a platform for \ncommunity engagement and it can function as a source of data for academic research (both linguistic \nand non-linguistic research). The spoken data we describe is a new corpus of monologues called the \nUC QuakeBox corpus. First, we introduce and demon…
Phonological leveling, diffusion, and divergence
This paper examines the phonological leveling and diffusion of variants of /t/ in Liverpool, northwest England, and two localities in its hinterland. We show that lenited realizations of /t/, thought to be historically restricted to Liverpool, are increasing over time and spreading over geographical space. We explore Labov's (2007) claims that linguistic changes that progress via transmission, within a speech community, are reproduced in all thei…
Gender separation and the speech community
The existence of a shared constraint hierarchy is one of the criteria that defines and delimits speech communities. In particular, women and men are thought to differ only in their rates of variable usage, not in the constraints governing their variation; that is, women and men are typically considered to belong to the same speech community. We find that in early twentieth century Southland, New Zealand, women and men had different constraint hie…
Systematic co-variation of monophthongs across speakers of New Zealand English
The study of phonetic variation and change has tended to concentrate on particular variables in isolation, and it has proven challenging to move beyond an analysis of individual variables or small groups of variables, towards a better theoretical and empirical understanding of entire vowel systems. We develop a methodology that facilitates the study of co-variation, and introduce a large scale analysis of how elements of full sound systems co-var…
Lessons learned
The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially altered the fabric of life around the globe, raising crucial questions about the nature of language usage in person and online. But as researchers embark on new studies (or continuations of pre-COVID research), just as essential are considerations of what our responsibilities as researchers are to our participants now. In this article, we share our reflections upon the experience of conducting research in t…
Intraspeaker Priming across the New Zealand English Short Front Vowel Shift
A growing body of research in psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics shows that we have a strong tendency to repeat linguistic material that we have recently produced, seen, or heard. The present paper investigates whether priming effects manifest in continuous phonetic variation the way it has been reported in phonological, morphological, and syntactic variation. We analyzed nearly 60,000 tokens of vowels involved in the New…
Using principal component analysis to explore co‐variation of vowels
This paper presents a methodology for exploring systematic co‐variation of vowels using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). As a case study, we examine and build on Brand et al.'s (2021) study of systematic co‐variation amongst the monophthongs of New Zealand English (NZE) across speakers born over a 118‐year time period. We present PCA as a methodology, with information aimed at readers who may themselves want to use it in a related context. We …
The overlooked effect of amplitude on within-speaker vowel variation
We analyse variation in vowel production within monologues produced by speakers in a quiet, well-controlled environment. Using principal component analysis (PCA) and generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), applied to a large corpus of naturalistic recordings of New Zealand English speakers, we show that the first formant of monophthongs varies significantly with variation in a speaker’s relative amplitude. We also find that amplitude variation…
How stable are patterns of covariation across time
Recent research into vowel covariation has suggested that speakers can be identified as leaders or laggers in multiple ongoing sound changes. What remains unclear is how stable a speaker’s patterns of covariation are over time and whether these leaders and laggers of sound changes remain leaders and laggers over time. We employ corpus data from 51 New Zealand English (NZE) speakers who were recorded at two time-points (eight years apart) and expl…
Vowel variation in a segregated and isolated religious community
While New Zealand English (NZE) is a highly researched variety of English due to its variable monophthongal system, one community in New Zealand remains greatly under-researched — the Gloriavale Christian Community. This community gives us a laboratory insight into how new dialect formation (NDF) and isolation interplay in the formation of a new accent. Furthermore, we investigate how this accent may differ by gender as the community exhibits hig…
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