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Publication details [#53481]

Labov, William, Maciej Baranowski and Aaron Dinkin. 2010. The effect of outliers on the perception of sound change. Language Variation and Change 22 (2) : 175–190.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

evaluation | language status | perception1 | sound change | speech community

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study examines the role of outliers in vowel distributions via an experiment that marks subjects' evaluations of (a)symmetrical distributions. The impact of low outliers appeared significantly bigger, mirroring the socially marked status of this form in the Philadelphian speech community.