The next generation of text-to-speech systems will have to be more sensitive to sociolinguistic 'style' variables. In order to assist in the adaptation of synthesis to a wider range of contexts, this article examines several sociolinguistic parameters which have been shown to influence the realization of negatives in actual discourse, analyzing their effects on the realization of negatives in E...

Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of sociolinguistics since inception field. In contrast to social sciences, however, sociolinguists have rarely addressed issues surrounding participation those involved and engaged process. This paper aims reviewing state art outlining critical dimensions aspects with relation participation. We explore previous st...

This paper offers a definition of language iconicity. And it studies it from a fresh perspective--sociolinguistics. The paper discusses it from the following five sections: social class corresponds to language diversity; traditional concept corresponds to word order iconicity and syntactic iconicity; intimity or estrangement corresponds to lexicalization; regional varieties correspond to differ...

SPEAKING THE PART IS BLACK ENGLISH IN THE WORKPLACE A DETRIMENTTO CLIMBING THE CORPORATE LADDER? A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDYREGARDING BLACK ENGLISH IN THE WORKPLACE

What we may call ‘the sociolinguistic method’ is neither new to sociolinguistics, nor universally adhered to by sociolinguists, nor-strictly speaking-a method. It is basically a working hypothesis with a distinctive (within linguistics) methodological and concetpual apparatus, built up over the last ten to fifteen years in response to the particular needs of research guided by this hypothesis. ...

BACKGROUND Assessment of consulting skills using simulated patients is widespread in medical education. Most research into such assessment is sited in a statistical paradigm that focuses on psychometric properties or replicability of such tests. Equally important, but less researched, is the question of how far consultations with simulated patients reflect real clinical encounters--for which so...

The linguistic diversity enduring beyond institutional pressures and social prejudices against non-standard dialects questions the social forces influencing language maintenance across generations and how children contribute to this process. Children encounter multi-dialectal interactions in their early environment, and increasing evidence shows that the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation...

Sociolinguistic studies suggest the similarity of language use among people with similar social state, and recent large-scale computational analyses of online text are providing various supports, for example, the effect of social class, geography, and political preference on the language use. We approach the tasks of TASS 2015 with sociolinguistic insights in order to capture the patterns in th...