The Effect of Perceptual Salience on Phonetic Accommodation in Cross-dialectal Conversation in Spanish

Phonetic accommodation is the process whereby speakers in an interaction modify their speech in response to their interlocutor. The social-psychological theory of Communication Accommodation Theory (Giles 1973) predicts that speakers will converge towards (become more similar to) their interlocutors...

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Main Author: MacLeod, Bethany
Other Authors: Kang, Yoonjung
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/34794