Perception of Dialect Variation

Abstract

Research on the perception of dialect variation has expanded dramatically since the early years of the twenty-first century. Early work on perceptual classification of regional dialects involved primarily forced-choice dialect categorization tasks with native adult listeners of the target language. Listeners’ perceptual representations of dialect variation are also shaped by the nature and degree of linguistic variability across dialects. The critical role of learning and experience in the construction of perceptual dialect categories is further highlighted in recent research examining dialect perception by infants and children. The role of experience differs between perceptual dialect classification and cross-dialect speech processing, especially with respect to geographic mobility. The results of the work examining the effects of dialect variation on adult speech perception are consistent with a model of representation in which linguistic variants are associated with particular dialect categories and those associations can facilitate speech processing.

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Cynthia G. Clopper (2021). Perception of Dialect Variation. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119184096.ch13

@article{g2021perception,
  title  = {Perception of Dialect Variation},
  author = {Clopper, Cynthia G.},
  year   = {2021},
  doi    = {10.1002/9781119184096.ch13}
}

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