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For the Record: Which Digital Media Can be Used for Sociophonetic Analysis?
Published in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011
We looked at the effect of smartphones, personal computers, consumer recorders and YouTube on representations of the vowel space.
Recommended citation: De Decker, Paul and Nycz, Jennifer (2011). For the Record: Which Digital Media Can be Used for Sociophonetic Analysis?, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 17 : Iss. 2 , Article 7. https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol17/iss2/7
Are tense [æ] s really tense? The mapping between articulation and acoustics
Published in Lingua, 2012
Recommended citation: De Decker, P. M. and Nycz, J.R. (2012). Are tense [æ] s really tense? The mapping between articulation and acoustics. Lingua. Volume 122, Issue 7, May 2012, Pages 810-821
Phonetic Shifting Across Narrative and Quoted Speech Styles
Published in Acoustical Society of America, 2015
Recommended citation: De Decker, P. (2015). Phonetic Shifting Across Narrative and Quoted Speech Styles. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (Vol. 20, No. 1, 060009). Acoustical Society of America. http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/poma/20/1/10.1121/2.0000027
An Acoustic and Articulatory Study of /l/ Allophony in Newfoundland English
Published in International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2015
Recommended citation: Mackenzie, S., De Decker, P., & Pierson, R. (2015). An acoustic and articulatory study of/l/ allophony in Newfoundland English. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, edited by the Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015. Glasgow: University of Glasgow. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0876.pdf
An evaluation of noise on LPC-based vowel formant estimates: Implications for sociolinguistic data collection
Published in Linguistics Vanguard, 2016
Recommended citation: De Decker, P. (2016). An evaluation of noise on LPC-based vowel formant estimates: Implications for sociolinguistic data collection. Linguistics Vanguard, 2(1), 20150010. https://www-degruyter-com.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/document/doi/10.1515/lingvan-2015-0010/html
Canadian Raising in Newfoundland?
Published in , 2017
Recommended citation: 2017 Clarke, S., De Decker, P., and Van Herk. G. "Canadian Raising in Newfoundland?". In Raymond Hickey (Ed.), Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English. Cambridge University Press. 395-413. https://www-cambridge-org.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/core/books/listening-to-the-past/7D028AF2A8D9E854230040233199E4AA
Tracking the phonological status of/l/in Newfoundland English: Experiments in articulation and acoustics
Published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017
Recommended citation: De Decker, P., & Mackenzie, S. (2017). Tracking the phonological status of/l/in Newfoundland English: Experiments in articulation and acoustics. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(1), 350-362. https://doi-org.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/10.1121/1.4991349
The Technology of Conducting Sociolinguistic Interviews
Published in , 2018
Recommended citation: De Decker, P. and Nycz, J. (2018). The Technology of Conducting Sociolinguistic Interviews. In Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs and Gerard Van Herk (Eds.), Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications. Second Edition. Routledge. (Revised from 2013 edition).
Remote Sociophonetic Data Collection: Vowels and Nasalization over Video Conferencing Apps
Published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021
Recommended citation: Freeman, V. & De Decker, P. (2021). Remote Sociophonetic Data Collection: Vowels and Nasalization over Video Conferencing Apps. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 149. https://doi-org.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/10.1121/10.0003529
Remote Sociophonetic Data Collection: Vowels and Nasalization from Self-recordings on Personal Devices
Published in Language and Linguistics Compass, 2021
Recommended citation: Freeman, V. & De Decker, P. (in press). Remote Sociophonetic Data Collection: Vowels and Nasalization from Self-recordings on Personal Devices. Language and Linguistics Compass. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1749818x
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teaching
Sociolinguistics II
Undergraduate/Graduate, Memorial University, Linguistics, 2021
This class provides a thorough grounding in variationist sociolinguistic principles and methodology underlying current approaches to language variation and change. Students will develop an empirical foundation for examining major issues related to language variation and change.
Sociolinguistics Online
Discussion/Reading Group, Memorial University, Linguistics, 2021
This semester I am hosting the Sociolinguistics Online reading group for a number of advanced undergraduate and graduate students. We meet every other week to talk about our own research interests and to discuss published articles relevant to these interests. This group is also open to the public.