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Are you a fan? Investigating the role of identity in intra-speaker / intra-listener variation| old_uid | 11794 |
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| title | Are you a fan? Investigating the role of identity in intra-speaker / intra-listener variation |
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| start_date | 2012/11/09 |
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| schedule | 11h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | A |
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| details | Cycle : Sociophonétique |
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| summary | Topic/prime based shifts in production and perception are analogous
to accommodation and adaptation effects respectively, except that
there is no interlocutor to converge towards, and no speaker to adapt
to. Rather, in this class of intra-person variation, speakers and
listeners shift their production (Blom & Gumperz 1972; Becker 2009;
Rickford & McNair Knox 1994; Mendoza-Denton, Hay & Jannedy 2003) and
perception (Hay, Warren & Drager 2010; Hay, Nolan & Drager 2006; Hay
& Drager 2010) because a dialect has been associatively primed,
through the topic or other means.
Such shifts could be explained as unmediated responses to the prime,
whereby a primed dialect will always result in a shift in production/
perception, provided that the person has sufficient exposure to the
dialect. However, recent work has suggested that topic/priming
effects are dependent upon the identity of participants (Drager, Hay
& Walker 2010). In this talk, I report on a recent study (Love &
Walker, to appear), where we interviewed English and American fans of
English Premier League (EPL) soccer about American football. Overall,
we found that speakers were more rhotic (a feature of Standard
American English) when discussing American football than soccer.
However, non-significant trends in the data suggest that this effect
did not hold in English speakers who were not fans of American
football, independent of their exposure to American English. This
suggests that simply priming a dialect region may not be sufficient
to observe shifts in production; you may also need to prime an identity
I am currently expanding on this study to further investigate and
compare the role that identity may play in production and perception,
and will present the results of a pilot perception study where I look
at whether participants improve their recognition of 'accented' words
in noise if that accent is primed.
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Bio :
Abby Walker is a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics at
The Ohio State University. She received an M.A. in Linguistics from
the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her primary area of
interest is sociophonetics, with a particular interest in the causes
of, and constraints on, intra-person variation in production as well
as in perception. Her dissertation focuses on the effect of the topic
of conversation and priming on shifts in the speech and perception of
sports fans, and whether/how such shifts are mediated by experience
and identity. Other current projects include examining the alignment
of socially meaningful variants in interaction and shadowing (with
Kodi Weatherholtz & Kathryn Campbell-Kibler), the acoustics of other-
gender performance (with Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Shontael Wanjema &
Katie Carmichael), and how social perception of sociolinguistic
variants interacts with "linguistic internal" factors (in New Zealand
English, and in Puerto Rican Spanish).
Recent publications:
Abby Walker & Jennifer Hay. 2011. Congruence between ‘word age’ and
‘voice age’ facilitates lexical access. Laboratory Phonology 1(2):
219-237.
Drager, Katie, Jennifer Hay & Abby Walker. 2010. Pronounced
rivalries: Attitudes and speech production. Te Reo 53: 27-53. |
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| responsibles | Bel, Welby |
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