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Speech Quality Ratings Assigned to Guise Language Conditioned by Speaker Gender

Speech Quality Ratings Assigned to Guise Language Conditioned by Speaker Gender

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Impediments to intergenerational language transmission may be explained by the avoidance of a stigmatized variety by members of a social category (Eckert 2008).Relatedly, perceptions of nonstandard or stigmatized varieties or variants may also be influenced by certain social qualities of the speakers, such as gender. Labov’s gender paradox (2001:26...

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... Italian-speaking females were rated higher in this category than Italian-speaking males (p < .001). These results (see Figure 8) suggest that Genoese-speaking females are penalized in the speech attribute category. ...