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Publication details [#49179]

Fridland, Valerie. 2008. Regional differences in perceiving vowel tokens on Southerness, education, and pleasantness ratings. Language Variation and Change 20 (1) : 67–83.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | education | language variety | speech community | vowel

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores whether regional vowel norms differences influence Westerners' rating of Southern-shifted and non-Southern-shifted vowel variants on scales of Southernness, education, and pleasantness.