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Does She Sound Strange or Do They Sound Strange ?
Exploring the Effects of Dialectal Diffuseness in Perceptual Learni ng

 

Imagine that you’re walking down the street and a stranger asks you a question. You ́re pretty sure she ́s a native speak er of English, but something about the way she produces certain sounds i s unfamiliar to you. If you had to make a choice, would you attribute th is novel phonetic variation to something particular to the speaker (an i diolect), or a dialect of English you've never heard? What if you lived in a large city, and regularly encountered different dialects of English ? Would that change your decision?

In this talk, I will explore ho w the perceiver ́s linguistic environment affects the cause she assigns to novel phonetic variation. Specifically, I will ask how being a member of a speech community in which multiple dialects of Spanish are spoken affects the perceiver ́s likelihood of attributing novel phonetic variat ion to a previously unencountered dialect of Spanish.

To investiga te how dialectal diversity may affect the causes we assign to phonetic v ariation, I will present a preliminary analysis of a perceptual learning study testing two Spanish speaking populations. Spanish-English bilingu als from Penn State, a dialectally diffuse community of Spanish speakers , and UC Riverside, a relatively homogenous dialectal group, were expose d to two Spanish speakers whose coda-/s/ productions were replaced with /ʃ/, creating a quasi-novel dialect of Spanish. To test for the cause as signed to this phonetic variation, generalization effects in perceptual learning are examined.

This line of research aims to contribute to the field of sociolinguistics by investigating how phonetic variation b ecomes attributable to indexically-linked groups of speakers. Although i t is well established that perceivers use top-down level knowledge to ma ke predictions of the cause of phonetic variation (Drager 201 1; Hay et al. 2006; Hay & Drager 2010; Koops et al. 2008), how these links are formed is not well understood. This research aims to fill that gap, and does so by investigating how the perceiver’ s environment influences the likelihood of these correlations forming.

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