Sociophonetics Lab - Past Recruitments
Past calls for participants
Past calls for participants
Accent Copy Cat12/2/2023 Are you good at accents or impressions? Come read short stories in different accents. Sessions take about 30 minutes, and you'll receive $10 cash. Must be a native English-speaker and have lived in Oklahoma for 10+ consecutive years (in childhood and/or adulthood). We especially need more males over age 40, people from rural Oklahoma, and people with training in theater, singing/voice, public speaking, linguistics, and other languages. After Dr. Freeman moved to Oklahoma, she started wondering what people mean when they say Oklahoma has a "country" accent. How is that different from Southern? So, senior Jenna Curran recorded Oklahomans reading a short story naturally and then in several other imitated accents, including "Southern" and "country," to see what features people used to set these two apart. Turns out: not much! Southern and Country imitations didn't differ much from each other, leading us to our preliminary conclusion that the Oklahoman "country" accent shares many features (at least the ones we've examined so far) with a Southern accent. This was some of the first work in the Oklahoma English project. In the next step, "Name that Accent," we asked other Oklahomans to listen to the recordings and give their first impressions of the speakers based on each accent. Could they tell Southern, Country, and natural Oklahoman apart? Presentations
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