Nicolai Pharao
Biographic Data
| ID | 749307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolai Pharao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolai |
| FAMILY NAME | Pharao |
| SIGNATURE | PHARAO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6828-9061 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Obstruent co-intrinsic pitch and other demands on the larynx: Revisiting the mechanisms behind co-intrinsic pitch in Danish
Obstruent consonants often exert a localized influence on pitch level in following segments, such that pitch is higher following phonologically voiceless obstruents. The underlying mechanisms of such co-intrinsic pitch effects remain disputed, and it remains unclear how they interact with other demands on the larynx. We revisit co-intrinsic pitch effects in Danish, a language with two series of voiceless stops that differ in the magnitude and ext…
Unveiling Tonal Contrasts in the Baltic Region: Exploring Stød in Livonian Spontaneous Speech
This paper presents findings for the tonal contrast and phonation differences between words with and without stà ̧d in Livonian spontaneous speech. Livonian differentiates between two contrastive phonological tones: the broken tone or stà ̧d and the plain tone. Stà ̧d is similar to the Danish stà ̧d in some respects and is said to be part of the tone systems of the phonologies of languages in the Baltic region. The findings show that the tonal co…
Introduction: Language outside the norm: Reactions to non-conforming speech and speakers
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Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical issues in sociophonetics
Language outside the norm: Reactions to non-conforming speech and speakers
The second issue of volume 47 (2024) of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics will be a special issue devoted to the effects of speaking differently from a norm. Across such diverse fields as sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, experimental linguistics, and interactional analysis we call for papers on empirically based studies of reactions towards speakers and/or speech that in some way or another is perceived as outside of a norm, for instance non-sta…
State of the art: Current methodological innovations in sociophonetics
Innovation is a buzzword at many levels of society, business and science. We as researchers are constantly urged to focus on the new and the ground-breaking, and on moving forward to new frontiers, enabling exploration of new knowledge in new combinations and from new perspectives. This as is true of sociophonetics, the study of socially grounded phonetic variation, as it is of any discipline. Technological breakthroughs and boundary-crossings ha…
Recognising regional varieties of Danish
Regional varieties of Danish are distinguished mainly by prosodic cues, in particular the tonal stress group pattern. We test the hypothesis that prosody is a strong cue for identifying the regional background of speakers. This hypothesis was studied using an online survey in which listeners were asked to identify the origin of speakers based on examples from four different regional varieties of Danish. Listeners identified speaker origin on the …
Stød in unexpected morphological contexts in Standard Danish: An experimental approach to sound change in progress
In recent years stød has appeared in words where the current phonological and morphological principles of its distribution would exclude it. Thus, a disyllable like [ˈsiːðə] side ‘page’ is without stød, also in a compound like bagside ‘back page’, but it has lately been heard with stød: . In a controlled experiment, speakers were required to produce compounds consisting of an existing initial word succeeded by a final nonce noun. The results indi…
Reflections on the relation between direct/indirect methods and explicit/implicit attitudes
The paper discusses the relation between direct/indirect methods and explicit/implicit attitudes against the background of how the issue of consciousness (or awareness) is understood and treated in a great deal of research. We focus on the use of techniques that purport to probe the implicit language attitudes held by respondents, and discuss some recent suggestions to modifications of traditional indirect methods. Our main point is that the use …
Not from a ‘Danish’ home; typical of trying to sound ‘tough’” – Indexical meanings of variation in /s/ and /t/ in the speech of adolescent girls in Copenhagen / “Não é de família dinamarquesa; mas é t…
The aim of this article is to examine the social meaning of /s/- and /t/-variation for Copenhagen girls in two different registers. The examined features consist of [s] and [ts], which are considered the standard variants, and [s+] and [tj] which carry different social connotations. Both variables are examined in the registers modern Copenhagen speech and street language in two different matched guise experiments. Stimuli for both experiments con…
Introduction: Tracing the origin of /s/ variation
This paper provides an introduction to the papers in this special issue on the sociophonetics of /s/. We begin by reviewing some of the principal findings on variation in the production and perception of /s/, summarizing studies in sociolinguistics, experimental phonetics, and laboratory phonology. We go on to identify similarities in the meanings associated with /s/ variation cross-linguistically, and briefly describe how theories of sound symbo…
On the influence of coronal sibilants and stops on the perception of social meanings in Copenhagen Danish
Previous studies have shown that the same sociolinguistic feature can be used as a sociolinguistic resource with different indexical potentials in different linguistic as well as social contexts. In this paper we present the results of a perceptual study of indexical meanings of fronted and palatalized variants of /t/ in combination with fronted /s/ in different registers of Copenhagen Danish. The data consist of responses to male speakers' use o…
Lects are perceptually invariant, productively variable: A coherent claim about Danish lects
Indexical meanings of [s+] among Copenhagen youth: Social perception of a phonetic variant in different prosodic contexts
It is well documented that the same sociolinguistic feature can be used as a sociolinguistic resource with different indexical potentials in different linguistic as well as social contexts. Often, however, indexical meanings of a specific feature are related to or derived from one another. In this article we present the results of a perceptual study of indexical meanings of alveolar versus fronted (s)—[s] versus [s+]—in different registers. The d…
On the influence of coronal sibilants and stops on the perception of social meanings in Copenhagen Danish
Previous studies have shown that the same sociolinguistic feature can be used as a sociolinguistic resource with different indexical potentials in different linguistic as well as social contexts. In this paper we present the results of a perceptual study of indexical meanings of fronted and palatalized variants of /t/ in combination with fronted /s/ in different registers of Copenhagen Danish. The data consist of responses to male speakers' use o…
Lects are perceptually invariant, productively variable: A coherent claim about Danish lects
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical issues in sociophonetics
Indexical meanings of [s+] among Copenhagen youth: Social perception of a phonetic variant in different prosodic contexts
It is well documented that the same sociolinguistic feature can be used as a sociolinguistic resource with different indexical potentials in different linguistic as well as social contexts. Often, however, indexical meanings of a specific feature are related to or derived from one another. In this article we present the results of a perceptual study of indexical meanings of alveolar versus fronted (s)—[s] versus [s+]—in different registers. The d…
Lects are perceptually invariant, productively variable: A coherent claim about Danish lects
Introduction: Tracing the origin of /s/ variation
This paper provides an introduction to the papers in this special issue on the sociophonetics of /s/. We begin by reviewing some of the principal findings on variation in the production and perception of /s/, summarizing studies in sociolinguistics, experimental phonetics, and laboratory phonology. We go on to identify similarities in the meanings associated with /s/ variation cross-linguistically, and briefly describe how theories of sound symbo…
On the influence of coronal sibilants and stops on the perception of social meanings in Copenhagen Danish
Previous studies have shown that the same sociolinguistic feature can be used as a sociolinguistic resource with different indexical potentials in different linguistic as well as social contexts. In this paper we present the results of a perceptual study of indexical meanings of fronted and palatalized variants of /t/ in combination with fronted /s/ in different registers of Copenhagen Danish. The data consist of responses to male speakers' use o…
Reflections on the relation between direct/indirect methods and explicit/implicit attitudes
The paper discusses the relation between direct/indirect methods and explicit/implicit attitudes against the background of how the issue of consciousness (or awareness) is understood and treated in a great deal of research. We focus on the use of techniques that purport to probe the implicit language attitudes held by respondents, and discuss some recent suggestions to modifications of traditional indirect methods. Our main point is that the use …
Not from a ‘Danish’ home; typical of trying to sound ‘tough’” – Indexical meanings of variation in /s/ and /t/ in the speech of adolescent girls in Copenhagen / “Não é de família dinamarquesa; mas é t…
The aim of this article is to examine the social meaning of /s/- and /t/-variation for Copenhagen girls in two different registers. The examined features consist of [s] and [ts], which are considered the standard variants, and [s+] and [tj] which carry different social connotations. Both variables are examined in the registers modern Copenhagen speech and street language in two different matched guise experiments. Stimuli for both experiments con…
State of the art: Current methodological innovations in sociophonetics
Innovation is a buzzword at many levels of society, business and science. We as researchers are constantly urged to focus on the new and the ground-breaking, and on moving forward to new frontiers, enabling exploration of new knowledge in new combinations and from new perspectives. This as is true of sociophonetics, the study of socially grounded phonetic variation, as it is of any discipline. Technological breakthroughs and boundary-crossings ha…
Recognising regional varieties of Danish
Regional varieties of Danish are distinguished mainly by prosodic cues, in particular the tonal stress group pattern. We test the hypothesis that prosody is a strong cue for identifying the regional background of speakers. This hypothesis was studied using an online survey in which listeners were asked to identify the origin of speakers based on examples from four different regional varieties of Danish. Listeners identified speaker origin on the …
Stød in unexpected morphological contexts in Standard Danish: An experimental approach to sound change in progress
In recent years stød has appeared in words where the current phonological and morphological principles of its distribution would exclude it. Thus, a disyllable like [ˈsiːðə] side ‘page’ is without stød, also in a compound like bagside ‘back page’, but it has lately been heard with stød: . In a controlled experiment, speakers were required to produce compounds consisting of an existing initial word succeeded by a final nonce noun. The results indi…
Language outside the norm: Reactions to non-conforming speech and speakers
The second issue of volume 47 (2024) of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics will be a special issue devoted to the effects of speaking differently from a norm. Across such diverse fields as sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, experimental linguistics, and interactional analysis we call for papers on empirically based studies of reactions towards speakers and/or speech that in some way or another is perceived as outside of a norm, for instance non-sta…
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical issues in sociophonetics
Unveiling Tonal Contrasts in the Baltic Region: Exploring Stød in Livonian Spontaneous Speech
This paper presents findings for the tonal contrast and phonation differences between words with and without stà ̧d in Livonian spontaneous speech. Livonian differentiates between two contrastive phonological tones: the broken tone or stà ̧d and the plain tone. Stà ̧d is similar to the Danish stà ̧d in some respects and is said to be part of the tone systems of the phonologies of languages in the Baltic region. The findings show that the tonal co…
Introduction: Language outside the norm: Reactions to non-conforming speech and speakers
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Obstruent co-intrinsic pitch and other demands on the larynx: Revisiting the mechanisms behind co-intrinsic pitch in Danish
Obstruent consonants often exert a localized influence on pitch level in following segments, such that pitch is higher following phonologically voiceless obstruents. The underlying mechanisms of such co-intrinsic pitch effects remain disputed, and it remains unclear how they interact with other demands on the larynx. We revisit co-intrinsic pitch effects in Danish, a language with two series of voiceless stops that differ in the magnitude and ext…
Linguistics (13 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Variation (astronomy) (6 works) · Danish (5 works)