A sociophonetic study of VOT and Polish transnational identities in the UK: Some preliminary results
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This paper examines Voice Onset Time (VOT) of Polish voiceless stops in natural speech of members of the Polish transnational community in the United Kingdom. The results presented here are part of a larger sociophonetic project and suggest that aspirated voiceless plosives in Polish, characterized by longer mean VOTs, are associated with a cosmopolitan transnational identity. In contrast, shorter mean VOTs are typical of the speech of members of the community with a more nationally Polish identity.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015