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Publication details [#58705]

Kristiansen, Tore, Janus Spindler Moller, Marie Maegaard and Nicolai Pharao. 2014. Indexical meanings of [s+] among Copenhagen youth: Social perception of a phonetic variant in different prosodic contexts. Language in Society 43 (1) : 1–31.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press

Annotation

This paper proposes the findings of a perceptual study of indexical meanings of alveolar versus fronted "s" in the different registers of “modern Copenhagen speech” and “street language”. Results demonstrate that the [s+] points to femininity and queerness when it takes place in “modern Copenhagen,” whilst the (s)-variation has a divergent and less important impact when emerging in “street language.”