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      Implicit effects of regional cues on the interpretation of intonation by Corsican French listeners

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          It is now well documented for different varieties of English that the speech production and perception systems rapidly adapt to contextual social cues. This adaptation is sensitive not only to speaker social identity but also to implicit social cues, suggesting that the underlying mechanism is automatic rather than controlled. While it has recently been shown that the interpretation of intonation depends on segmental cues to sociolect within the same utterance, the present study explores whether it also depends on implicit contextual social cues. Starting from the observation that a specific type of intonational contour is used differently in Corsican French and Continental French, we tested whether Corsican French listeners interpret this contour differently depending on which dialectal region is evoked by a visual cue. The results are consistent with this hypothesis, thus providing evidence for implicit social adaption in a new domain of linguistic behavior, specifically, the prosody-meaning interface. We describe an exemplar-based model of our results demonstrating that such models can be readily extended to capture the effects found by the present study.

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                Journal
                1868-6354
                Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology
                Ubiquity Press
                1868-6354
                04 December 2019
                2019
                : 10
                : 1
                : 22
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LPL, Aix-en-Provence, FR
                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1764-2945
                Article
                10.5334/labphon.162
                c8e30a51-f490-4043-b3c6-ff5dab2d98b5
                Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                : 30 July 2018
                : 18 October 2019
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                Applied linguistics,General linguistics,Linguistics & Semiotics
                Corsican French,implicit social adaption,sociophonetics,speech perception,Intonation

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