Ethnicity and phonetic variation in Sheffield English liquids
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7865447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sam Kirkham (0000-0003-4469-1512, Lancaster City Council, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-35 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-1003 • E-ISSN: 1475-3502 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0025100316000268 |
| OpenAlex | W2467065467 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 40 |
This article reports a study of acoustic phonetic variation between ethnic groups in the realisation of the British English liquids / l / and /ɹ/. Data are presented from ‘Anglo’ and ‘Asian’ native speakers of Sheffield English. Sheffield Anglo English is typically described as having ‘dark’ / l /, but there is some disagreement in the literature. British Asian speakers, on the other hand, are often described as producing much ‘clearer’ realisations of / l /, but the specific differences between varieties may vary by geographical location. Regression analysis of liquid steady states and Smoothing Spline ANOVAs of vocalic–liquid formant trajectories show consistent F2−F1 differences in / l / between Anglo and Asian speakers in non-final contexts, which is suggestive of a strong distinction between varieties in terms of clearness/darkness. There is also evidence of a polarity effect in liquids, with differing relationships between liquid phonemes in each variety: Asian speakers produce / l / with higher F2−F1 values than /ɹ/, and Anglo speakers produce /ɹ/ with higher F2−F1 values than / l /. The results are discussed in terms of phonetic variation in liquids and socioindexical factors in speech production
Ethnic group · Formant · Linguistics · Physics · Sociology · Statistics · Variance (accounting · Variation (astronomy · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropology · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
A dynamic acoustic account of onset and coda laterals in four languages
The sociolinguistics of /l/ in Manchester
Language attitudes modulate phonetic interactions between languages in bilingual speakers in diglossic settings
Acquiring allophonic structure and phonetic detail in a bilingual community
Backward transfer of Glasgow English on Indian English and Hindi
The role of style in the ethnolect
Bilingual language exposure and the peer group
Variation in VOT in English child-directed speech of English-Mandarin and English-Malay early bilinguals in Singapore
Influence of caregiver input and language experience on the production of coda laterals by English–Malay bilingual preschoolers in multi-accent Singapore
An acoustic and articulatory investigation into Liverpool and Wirral lateral production in female and male adolescent speech
An acoustic analysis of rhoticity in Lancashire, England
An acoustical analysis of the merger of /ɲ/ and /nj/ in Buenos Aires Spanish
Constructing multiculturalism at school
Retroflex and non-retroflex laterals in the Zibo dialect of Chinese
The velarized lateral [ɫ] in East Austrian base dialects
Systematicity in Variability
Shared or Separate Representations? The Spanish Palatal Nasal in Early Spanish/English Bilinguals
Negotiating social meanings in a plural society
Nasal coarticulation in Bininj Kunwok
Sociophonetic variation in English /l/ in the child-directed speech of English-Malay bilinguals
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century
An acoustic-articulatory study of bilingual vowel production
A Handbook of Varieties of English
Analyzing Linguistic Data
Accents of English
Comparing tongue shapes from ultrasound imaging using smoothing spline analysis of variance
A perceptual model of vowel recognition based on the auditory representation of American English vowels
Analytical expressions for the tonotopic sensory scale
The sounds of the world's languages
Linguistic variation as social practice
Urban Voices
Conservation and innovation in a traditional dialect
Acoustical Characteristics of Selected English Consonants
Acoustic Theory of Speech Production
Spatial and Temporal Properties of Gestures in North American English /r
Acoustics of American English Speech
Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation
F2 variation in Newcastle and Leeds English liquid systems
Another chapter in the story of /r
Allophonic variation in English /l/ and its implications for phonetic implementation
Phonetic variation in Scottish Gaelic laterals
Three Waves of Variation Study
Cognitive and social forces in dialect shift
Gender-specific articulatory-acoustic relations in vowel sequences
An acoustic analysis of 'happy-tensing' in the Queen's Christmas broadcasts
The social life of phonetics and phonology
Acquiring a second language in an immigrant community
Contact, the feature pool and the speech community
Ethnolinguistic repertoire
Homegirls
Articulatory, positional and coarticulatory characteristics for clear /l/ and dark /l
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |