The old, the new, and the in-between: Preadolescents' use of stylistic variation in speech in projecting their own identity in a culturally changing environment.
The old, the new, and the in-between: Preadolescents' use of stylistic variation in speech in projecting their own identity in a culturally changing environment.
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旧的、新的和中间的:青春期前的青少年在文化变化的环境中利用言语风格的变化来投射自己的身份。
DOI:
10.1111/desc.12722
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Fox,RobertA
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文献类型:
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作者:
Jacewicz,Ewa;Fox,RobertA
Cultural learning begins early, with infants’ and young children's initial imitations of group‐specific local behaviors. Comparatively little is known about cultural development in older children, whose more advanced socio‐cognitive skills can moderate their decisions about adherence to the established cultural conventions and acceptance of new norms. Focusing on the acquisition of a regional dialect, the current study was conducted in a small community in western North Carolina, whose rich Appalachian heritage grew from distinctive cultural and living traditions. The region has gradually opened up to outside influences and the local culture is now shifting toward mainstream American socio‐cultural norms. The study sought to determine how preadolescents positioned themselves in this socio‐culturally changing environment. Using detailed acoustic analysis to measure stylistic variation in speech in 9–12‐year‐olds and perceptual ratings to verify its salience, we examined the pronunciation of the vowel /ai/ to test children's adherence to the old Appalachian identity marker (the monophthong) and their acceptance of the modern American society (the diphthong). As an innovation, children created an intermediate phonetic variant that reduced the pronunciation differences between the old and modern patterns. Demonstrating the ability to adapt speech style to context, they increased the degree of diphthongization in this /ai/‐variant in careful speech (reading), and reduced it in casual conversations. Girls’ productions were more diphthongal than were boys’ in reading but not in conversations. The new variant in children represents regional dialect levelling, and likely results from their accommodation to the changing environment, which promotes reduction of old marked forms.
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影响因子:
4.6
作者:
M. Tomasello
通讯作者:
M. Tomasello
影响因子:
4
作者:
J. C. Scott;A. Henderson
通讯作者:
A. Henderson
DOI:
10.1044/2014_jslhr-s-12-0248
发表时间:
2014
期刊:
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
影响因子:
--
作者:
Jacewicz,Ewa;Fox,RobertAllen
通讯作者:
Fox,RobertAllen
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2014
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
Hiltrud Otto;H. Keller
通讯作者:
H. Keller
影响因子:
2.2
作者:
Julie A. Roberts
通讯作者:
Julie A. Roberts