30.44, Books: Sound change, priming, salience: Juskan

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Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 20:17:07
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Sound change, priming, salience: Juskan

 


Title: Sound change, priming, salience 
Subtitle: Producing and perceiving variation in Liverpool English 
Series Title: Language Variation  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/210 


Author: Marten Juskan

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961101191 Pages: 343 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This volume investigates the realisation and perception of four phonological
variables in Liverpool English (Scouse), with a special focus on their
sociolinguistic salience. Younger speakers’ speech is found to be more local,
but only for the two salient variables in the sample (NURSE-SQUARE and /k/
lenition), which appear to carry considerable amounts of covert prestige.
Local variants of non-salient happy-tensing and velar nasal plus, on the other
hand, are actually found to be receding, so at least to a certain extent
Scouse also seems to be participating in regional dialect levelling. The
importance of salience is also obvious in the perception data, with only the
two highly salient stereotypes generating robust effects in a social priming
experiment (albeit in the unexpected direction). These results indicate that
the investigated variables differ measurably not only in their use in
production, but also in terms of how central they are to mental
sociolinguistic representations of Scouse. They also tell us more about the
way we process, store, and (re-)use sociolinguistic variation in perception.
By defining likely contexts for significant priming effects they might finally
even help in coming up with a more elaborate elaborate “theory of priming” in
the realm of sociophonetics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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