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<font size="4" class=""><b class="">The Role of Listener Experience in Perception of Conditioned Dialect Variation</b></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Abstract: The Role of Listener Experience in Perception of Conditioned Dialect Variation</div>
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<div class="">Listeners use indexical links—associations between social characteristics and linguistic variants—both to</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">process speech and make social judgments. For example, an American might use a link between southern</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">British speakers and the production of BATH words with [ɑ:] (e.g. bath → [bɑ:θ], glass → [glɑ:s]) both to</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">interpret a production [glɑ:s] as glass rather than gloss when listening to a British speaker, and to judge a</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">production of glass as [glɑ:s] as sounding British. Using the TRAP/BATH split in RP (Britain’s prestige</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">dialect) and southern British Englishes, this dissertation examines three facets of these links: !rst, what</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">linguistic categories (e.g. words or phonemes) are involved; second, how these categories might change</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">as a listener gains more experience with southern British English; and third, whether the same indexical</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">links—involving the same linguistic categories—are used both for linguistic perception (processing</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">speech) and sociolinguistic perception (making social judgments).</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">RP speakers produce BATH words with [ɑ:]—which British listeners perceive as high-status—but TRAP</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">words with [a] or [æ]. This split is phonologically conditioned ([ɑ:] occurs before /f, θ, s/) but has</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">lexical exceptions (e.g. [gas] rather than the expected [gɑ:s]). Northern British and general American</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">English speakers, who lack the split, are hypothesized to link [ɑ:], RP (and related attributes like “highstatus”),</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and a linguistic category from their own dialect: either their phoneme /æ/ (/æ/↔RP [ɑ:]) [or /</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">a/ for northern British speakers, who produce TRAP with [a] rather than the general American [æ]]; /æ/</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">in a conditioning environment (e.g. /æ/ before voiceless fricatives↔RP [ɑ:]); or individual words (e.g.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">‘bath’↔RP [bɑ:θ]). Listeners with phoneme- level links would incorrectly expect RP speakers to say</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">tr[ɑ:]p; listeners with conditioned-phoneme links would incorrectly expect g[ɑ:]s but correctly expect</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">tr[a]p; and listeners with word-level links would have accurate expectations. The three experiments in</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">this dissertation compare listeners with varying degrees of experience with southern British English,</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">testing whether more-experienced listeners are more likely to have word-level links. In these</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">experiments, listeners complete both linguistic and sociolinguistic perception tasks, testing whether</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">individuals are consistent in which linguistic category they use for linguistic versus sociolinguistic</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">perception.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">All three experiments examine linguistic perception using a lexical decision task, where judge whether</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">productions like b[ɑ:]th, g[ɑ:]s, and tr[ɑ:]p are real words. Sociolinguistic perception is examined using a</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">sentence version task, in which participants judge whether a sentence sounds higher-status when it is</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">produced with [ɑ:] or with [a]. If the same links are accessed by linguistic and sociolinguistic perception,</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">individuals should show the same patterns of generalization across tasks: for example, a listener who</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">thinks tr[ɑ:]p is a word should associate tr[ɑ:]p with high social status.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">In Experiment 1, every participant accepted more b[ɑ:]th-type than tr[ɑ:]p-type items in the lexical</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">decision task, indicating sensitivity to the split’s lexical and/or phonological conditioning. However, in</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the social perception tasks, many participants lacked this sensitivity, associating both b[ɑ:]th- and</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">tr[ɑ:]p-type items with high social status. This mismatch would suggest that the indexical links used in</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">sociolinguistic perception are di&erent from, and more likely to involve phonemes than, those used in</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">linguistic perception.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Experiments 2 and 3 tested whether this apparent mismatch was simply a result of the choice of</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">sociolinguistic task, and whether participants might exhibit more sensitivity to the the split's lexical/</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">phonological conditioning in a di&erent sociolinguistic perception task. In these experiments,</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">participants completed the same lexical decision and sentence version tasks as in Experiment 1, along</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">with an additional sociolinguistic perception task. Both experiments replicated the mismatch between</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the lexical decision and sentence version tasks found in Experiment 1. In Experiment 3, the additional</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">sociolinguistic perception task (a scale-rating matched guise task) patterned with the sentence version</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">task, such that participants who were more sensitive to the lexical/phonological conditioning of the split</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">in one task were also more sensitive to it in the other—suggesting that these di&erent sociolinguistic</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">perception tasks accessed the same indexical links. However, in Experiment 2 there was no correlation in</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">how participants performed between the sentence version task and the additional sociolinguistic</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">perception task (matching [a]/[ɑ:] pronunciations to imaginary TV characters of di&erent social</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">backgrounds)—suggesting that there is not a single "sociolinguistic indexical link" that is accessed by any</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">sociolinguistic perception task. Even so, in the character-matching task participants still tended to</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">generalize the social meaning of [ɑ:] outside of the appropriate phonological/lexical environment,</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">associating pronunciations like tr[ɑ:]p with high-status characters. These results leave open the question</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">of whether the same indexical links are used in linguistic versus sociolinguistic perception, but suggest</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">that sociolinguistic perception tasks are more likely to access phoneme-level links.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Across experiments, in both linguistic and sociolinguistic perception listeners with more experience with</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">southern British English generally had more accurate (word-level) indexical links. This result suggests</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">that more experience yields stronger word-level links for the TRAP/BATH split.</div>
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