Raising of /a/ in Copenhagen Danish: perceptual consequences across two generations
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Raising of /a/ in Copenhagen Danish : perceptual consequences across two generations. / Pharao, Nicolai; Appel, Kirsten Lundholm; Wolter, Vanessa; Thøgersen, Jacob.
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T1 - Raising of /a/ in Copenhagen Danish
T2 - perceptual consequences across two generations
AU - Pharao, Nicolai
AU - Appel, Kirsten Lundholm
AU - Wolter, Vanessa
AU - Thøgersen, Jacob
PY - 2015/8/15
Y1 - 2015/8/15
N2 - This study concerns differences in the perception of phonemes that have undergone near merger within the past few generations in the Copenhagen speech community. It is hypothesized that this process can lead to a difference in phoneme boundaries across generations. We studied the effect of speaker and listener age on the placement of the phoneme boundary between /ɛ/ and /a/ in Copenhagen Danish using a forced choice word identification task. The results show that younger listeners accept a greater range of vowels as tokens of /a/ in accordance with the changes in production of this phoneme.
AB - This study concerns differences in the perception of phonemes that have undergone near merger within the past few generations in the Copenhagen speech community. It is hypothesized that this process can lead to a difference in phoneme boundaries across generations. We studied the effect of speaker and listener age on the placement of the phoneme boundary between /ɛ/ and /a/ in Copenhagen Danish using a forced choice word identification task. The results show that younger listeners accept a greater range of vowels as tokens of /a/ in accordance with the changes in production of this phoneme.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Sound change
KW - Vowel perception
KW - Age effects
KW - Social meaning
M3 - Paper
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