Taylor Jones Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Regional Variation in African American English Accents after the Great Migration Early work on African American English (AAE) described its phonology as remarkably uniform, however nearly five decades after the end of the Great Migration, is this still the case? In order to investigate this, […]
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Andrea Beltrama MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania Imprecision and speaker identity: How social cues affect meaning resolution Speakers’ descriptions can be associated with a varying margin of imprecision: an actual time of 2:57 could be reported precisely as “2:57″, or less precisely as “3 o’clock” (Lasersohn 1999 i.a.). This variability introduces an element […]