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Perceiving isn't believing

Divergence in levels of sociolinguistic awareness

Bibliographic Data

ID2897005
AuthorsKevin B Mcgowan (0000-0002-8214-1901, University of Kentucky, corresponding author), Anna M Babel, Anna Babel (0000-0002-3819-7190, The Ohio State University)
Year2020
Volume49
Issue2
Pages231-256
Publication date2020-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404519000782
OpenAlexW2981685882
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited66

The influence of social knowledge on speech perception is a question of interest to a range of disciplines of language research. This study combines experimental and qualitative approaches to investigate whether the various methodological and disciplinary threads of research on this topic are truly investigating the same phenomenon to provide converging evidence in our understanding of social listening. This study investigates listeners' perceptions of Spanish and Quechua speakers speaking Spanish in the context of a contact zone between these two languages and their speakers in central Bolivia. The results of a pair of matched-guise vowel discrimination tasks and subsequent interviews demonstrate that what peopleperceive, as measured by experimental tasks, is not necessarily what theybelievethey hear, as reported in narrative responses to interview prompts. Multiple methodological approaches must be employed in order to fully understand the way that we perceive language at diverging levels of sociolinguistic awareness. (Perception, sociophonetics, sociolinguistics, awareness, Andean Spanish

Active listening · Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology) · Divergence (linguistics) · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Narrative · Perception · Phenomenon · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Communication · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Citations per year4
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 22

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