Perceptual Style-Shifting Across Singing and Speech: Music Activates Pop Song English for NZ Listeners.
American singing accents are prevalent in popular music throughout the English-speaking world. Singing with an American-influenced phonological style is a supralocal norm, referred to here as Pop Song English (PSE). This article presents two perception experiments that explore New Zealand (NZ) liste...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 651 - 684 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2026
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