The interpretation of prosodic variability in the context of accompanying sociophonetic cues

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The interpretation of prosodic variability in the context of accompanying sociophonetic cues

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Production data have shown that one of the features distinguishing uptalk rises from question rises in New Zealand English (NZE) is the alignment point of the rise start, which is earlier in question utterances realized by younger speakers. Previous research has indicated that listeners are sensitive to this distinction in making a forced-choice decision as to whether an utterance is a statement or a question. NZE is also characterized by an ongoing merger of the NEAR and SQUARE diphthongs, w...

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2017-05-01

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Paul Warren

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Laboratory Phonology

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http://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/92

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uptalk / rising intonation / New Zealand English / sociophonetics / speech perception / mousetracking / Language / Linguistic theory / Comparative grammar

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