LINB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Uniformitarianism, Longitudinal Study, Double Negative
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Study called anna, whether participants are able to identify speaker based on pragmatics as opposed to pitch (so left out pitch) Looked at sex and sexuality based on written transcripts. Men could identify sexuality and gender based on transcripts more that women could (80% vs. 40%) Passing: adopting linguistic features of another group in order to be a part of that group. Dragging: using features of a specific group both they and the audience know as social humor. Women used most um and men more uh utterances. The use of the fillers implied that the respondents are still actively engaged in answering the questions. As you get older um decreases but women still use it more than men. Influences language: gender, social class, place & age. Massive change in the english pronunciation system. People use the old forms - using old + new forms new forms. We see an upward shift; all vowels raised in terms of height.
