Carmen Llamas
Biographic Data
| ID | 88162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmen Llamas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmen |
| FAMILY NAME | Llamas |
| SIGNATURE | LLAMAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Effects of Expert Conclusions and Additional Forensic Evidence on Listener Evaluations in a Voice Comparison Task
Little is known about how lay people understand and evaluate forensic evidence. Yet in many jurisdictions, lay people make up juries that are responsible for determining the innocence or guilt of the accused. In this paper, we examine how lay people's evaluations of voice comparison evidence are affected by likelihood ratio (LR)-based conclusions of different magnitudes, expressed in the form of numerical and verbal statements, as well as the sug…
Assessing the effects of accent-mismatched reference population databases on the performance of an automatic speaker recognition system
Automatic Speaker Recognition (ASR) systems are designed to provide the user with statistics relating to the similarity of two or more speech samples and to the typicality of those shared features in the wider population. When an ASR system is used as part of a forensic investigation, the user must decide what counts as the appropriate ‘wider population’ and select a reference database accordingly. While it has generally been held that the voices…
Vowel change across time, space, and conversational topic
This study focuses on speakers who continue to use forms that are recessive in a community, and the phonological and conversational contexts in which recessive forms persist. Use of a local, recessive form is explored across males from four ex-mining communities in Northeast England. Older speakers, who lived in the area when the mines were open, frequently produce the localized variant of the mouth vowel, especially in speech produced during con…
Sub-regional ‘other-accent’ effects on lay listeners’ speaker identification abilities
Previous studies have shown that listeners perform worse in speaker identification experiments when they are unfamiliar with the accents of the speakers. Such effects have been documented for listeners hearing unfamiliar foreign languages (language familiarity effect) and unfamiliar regional accents (‘other-accent’ effect). The present study investigates the ‘other-accent’ effect at a sub-regional level. Listeners from three different localities …
Scottish, English, British
This paper reviews techniques used in the direct, quantitative measurement of attitudes, before discussing the advantages of employing Visual Analog Scales. Innovative uses of these methods were developed for utilization in the large‐scale sociophonetic study Accent and Identity on the Scottish/English Border . The paper presents the ‘Attitude Analog Scale’ and the ‘Relational Analog Scale’, which were devised as a way of examining attitudes towa…
Language and Identities
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635771); This volume offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance and performance of identities. Bringing together the expertise of distinguished international scholars in specially commissioned chapters, the book provides a thematic reader and essential resource for advanced students and resea…
Linguistic Accommodation and the Salience of National Identity Markers in a Border Town
This study tests the extent of speakers' linguistic accommodation to members of putative in-groups and out-groups in a border locality where such categorizations can be said to be particularly accentuated. Variation in the speech of informants in dialect contact interactions with separate interviewers is analyzed for evidence of speech accommodation in the form of phonological convergence or divergence. The data do not support a straightforward i…
A place between places
This article investigates variation in the use of glottalling and glottalization of the voiceless stops (p t k) in an urban variety of British English. Middlesbrough, the locality in question, lies on a regional border in the North of England and has been subject to repeated redrawing of local administrative boundaries and shifting orientations in terms of popular culture. Linguistic trends that converge with North Eastern varieties and diverge f…
The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics
Providing a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistic methods and areas of investigation, this practical text covers every issue of major concern in the field
A place between places
This article investigates variation in the use of glottalling and glottalization of the voiceless stops (p t k) in an urban variety of British English. Middlesbrough, the locality in question, lies on a regional border in the North of England and has been subject to repeated redrawing of local administrative boundaries and shifting orientations in terms of popular culture. Linguistic trends that converge with North Eastern varieties and diverge f…
Linguistic Accommodation and the Salience of National Identity Markers in a Border Town
This study tests the extent of speakers' linguistic accommodation to members of putative in-groups and out-groups in a border locality where such categorizations can be said to be particularly accentuated. Variation in the speech of informants in dialect contact interactions with separate interviewers is analyzed for evidence of speech accommodation in the form of phonological convergence or divergence. The data do not support a straightforward i…
Vowel change across time, space, and conversational topic
This study focuses on speakers who continue to use forms that are recessive in a community, and the phonological and conversational contexts in which recessive forms persist. Use of a local, recessive form is explored across males from four ex-mining communities in Northeast England. Older speakers, who lived in the area when the mines were open, frequently produce the localized variant of the mouth vowel, especially in speech produced during con…
The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics
Providing a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistic methods and areas of investigation, this practical text covers every issue of major concern in the field
A place between places
This article investigates variation in the use of glottalling and glottalization of the voiceless stops (p t k) in an urban variety of British English. Middlesbrough, the locality in question, lies on a regional border in the North of England and has been subject to repeated redrawing of local administrative boundaries and shifting orientations in terms of popular culture. Linguistic trends that converge with North Eastern varieties and diverge f…
Linguistic Accommodation and the Salience of National Identity Markers in a Border Town
This study tests the extent of speakers' linguistic accommodation to members of putative in-groups and out-groups in a border locality where such categorizations can be said to be particularly accentuated. Variation in the speech of informants in dialect contact interactions with separate interviewers is analyzed for evidence of speech accommodation in the form of phonological convergence or divergence. The data do not support a straightforward i…
Language and Identities
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635771); This volume offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance and performance of identities. Bringing together the expertise of distinguished international scholars in specially commissioned chapters, the book provides a thematic reader and essential resource for advanced students and resea…
Scottish, English, British
This paper reviews techniques used in the direct, quantitative measurement of attitudes, before discussing the advantages of employing Visual Analog Scales. Innovative uses of these methods were developed for utilization in the large‐scale sociophonetic study Accent and Identity on the Scottish/English Border . The paper presents the ‘Attitude Analog Scale’ and the ‘Relational Analog Scale’, which were devised as a way of examining attitudes towa…
Sub-regional ‘other-accent’ effects on lay listeners’ speaker identification abilities
Previous studies have shown that listeners perform worse in speaker identification experiments when they are unfamiliar with the accents of the speakers. Such effects have been documented for listeners hearing unfamiliar foreign languages (language familiarity effect) and unfamiliar regional accents (‘other-accent’ effect). The present study investigates the ‘other-accent’ effect at a sub-regional level. Listeners from three different localities …
Vowel change across time, space, and conversational topic
This study focuses on speakers who continue to use forms that are recessive in a community, and the phonological and conversational contexts in which recessive forms persist. Use of a local, recessive form is explored across males from four ex-mining communities in Northeast England. Older speakers, who lived in the area when the mines were open, frequently produce the localized variant of the mouth vowel, especially in speech produced during con…
Assessing the effects of accent-mismatched reference population databases on the performance of an automatic speaker recognition system
Automatic Speaker Recognition (ASR) systems are designed to provide the user with statistics relating to the similarity of two or more speech samples and to the typicality of those shared features in the wider population. When an ASR system is used as part of a forensic investigation, the user must decide what counts as the appropriate ‘wider population’ and select a reference database accordingly. While it has generally been held that the voices…
The Effects of Expert Conclusions and Additional Forensic Evidence on Listener Evaluations in a Voice Comparison Task
Little is known about how lay people understand and evaluate forensic evidence. Yet in many jurisdictions, lay people make up juries that are responsible for determining the innocence or guilt of the accused. In this paper, we examine how lay people's evaluations of voice comparison evidence are affected by likelihood ratio (LR)-based conclusions of different magnitudes, expressed in the form of numerical and verbal statements, as well as the sug…
Linguistics (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works)