List of figures and tables
Figure 1.
Auditory stimuli. BrE = British English, AmE = American English
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Figure 2.
Final language labels of performed singing styles
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Figure 3.
Coding example of American b[æ]th vowel; AE17: 26
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Figure 4.
Coding example of non-rhotic accent; AE09: 10
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Figure 5.
Intentional, associative, and indexical field
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Figure 6.
Interviewees’ language labels for The Subways: “Celebrity”
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Figure 7.
Interviewees’ language labels for Band of Skulls: “The Devil Takes Care of His Own”
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Figure 8.
Interviewees’ language labels for Bush: “The Heart of the Matter”
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Figure 9.
Interviewees’ language labels for The Subways: “It’s a Party”
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Figure 10.
Interviewees’ language labels for The Black Keys: “Little Black Submarines”
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Figure 11.
Interviewees’ language labels for Cheryl: “Girl in the Mirror”
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Figure 12.
Interviewees’ language labels for Jessie J: “It’s My Party”
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Figure 13.
Interviewees’ language labels for Olly Murs: “Hey You Beautiful”
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Figure 14.
Interviewees’ language labels for McFly: “End of the World”
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Figure 15.
Interviewees’ language labels for Taylor Swift: “Stay Stay Stay”
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Figure 16.
Overview: Interviewees’ language labels for the rock stimuli. BEint = British interviewees, AEint = American
interviewees
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Figure 17.
Overview: Interviewees’ language labels for the pop stimuli. BEint = British interviewees, AEint = American
interviewees
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Figure 18.
Associative field of an American(ized) singing style and pop music
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Figure 19.
Associative field of the going local trend and rock music
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Figure 20.
Vowel features perceived as American by the interviewees
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Figure 21.
Vowel features perceived as British by the interviewees
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Figure 22.
Consonant features perceived as American by the interviewees
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Figure 23.
Consonant features perceived as British by the interviewees
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Figure 24.
General accent descriptions for British and American English by the interviewees
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Figure 25.
Other features perceived as American by the interviewees
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Table 1.
Excerpt from summary technique for language labels
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Table 2.
Excerpt from summary technique for discussion phase
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Table 3.
Detailed results of interviewees’ language labels. BEn = total amount of British
interviewees, AEn = total amount of American interviewees
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