Estimating the relative sociolinguistic salience of segmental variables in a dialect boundary zone

One way of evaluating the salience of a linguistic feature is by assessing the extent to which listeners associate the feature with a social category such as a particular socioeconomic class, gender, or nationality. Such ‘top-down’ associations will inevitably differ somewhat from listener to listen...

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Main Authors: Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt, Andrew Euan MacFarlane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01163/full