Crosslinguistic perceptions of /s/ among English, French, and German listeners

IF 1.4 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI:10.1017/S0954394521000089

Zack Boyd, Josef Fruehwald, Lauren Hall-Lew

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Abstract

Abstract This study reports the results of a crosslinguistic matched guise test examining /s/ and pitch variation in judgments of sexual orientation and nonnormative masculinity among English, French, and German listeners. Listeners responded to /s/ and pitch manipulations in native and other language stimuli (English, French, German, and Estonian). All listener groups rate higher pitch guises as more gay- and effeminate-sounding than lower pitch guises. However, only English listeners hear [s+] guises as more gay- and effeminate-sounding than [s] or [s−] guises for all stimuli languages. French and German listeners do not hear [s+] guises as more gay- or effeminate-sounding in any stimulus language, despite this feature's presence in native speech production. English listener results show evidence of indexical transfer, when indexical knowledge is applied to the perception of unknown languages. French and German listener results show how the enregistered status of /s/ variation affects perception, despite crosslinguistic similarities in production.

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英语、法语和德语听者对/s/的跨语言感知

摘要本研究报告了一项跨语言匹配伪装测试的结果，该测试考察了英语、法语和德语听者对性取向和非规范男性气质判断的/s/和音高变化。听众对母语和其他语言刺激(英语、法语、德语和爱沙尼亚语)中的/s/和音高操纵有反应。所有的听众群体都认为高音调的伪装比低音调的伪装听起来更同性恋和女性化。然而，在所有的刺激语言中，只有英语听众听到的[s+]伪装比[s]或[s -]伪装听起来更gay和更娘娘腔。法语和德语听众在任何刺激语中都听不到[s+]的发音更像同性恋或女性化，尽管这一特征在母语中存在。当索引知识应用于对未知语言的感知时，英语听者的结果显示了索引迁移的证据。法语和德语听者的研究结果表明，尽管跨语言在发音上存在相似性，但/s/变化的记录状态如何影响感知。

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期刊介绍： Language Variation and Change is the only journal dedicated exclusively to the study of linguistic variation and the capacity to deal with systematic and inherent variation in synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Sociolinguistics involves analysing the interaction of language, culture and society; the more specific study of variation is concerned with the impact of this interaction on the structures and processes of traditional linguistics. Language Variation and Change concentrates on the details of linguistic structure in actual speech production and processing (or writing), including contemporary or historical sources.