03/03/16 From fush to feesh 03/03/16

From fush to feesh Speech accomodation 03/03/16 From fush to feesh Speech accomodation People change their speech to match peers (Labov's department store study) 03/03/16

From fush to feesh Speech accomodation 03/03/16 From fush to feesh Speech accomodation People change their speech to match peers (Labov's department store study) Speech perception accomodation Do people change their perception based on who they are talking to? 03/03/16

From fush to feesh Canadian raising 03/03/16 From fush to feesh Canadian raising [aʊ] > [ʌʊ] (house, about) happens both in Canada and Detroit It's stereotypically Canadian 03/03/16

03/03/16 From fush to feesh Detroiter recorded saying sentences containing words like house and about Subjects heard recordings of sentences containing words like house and about They also saw the sentences with underlined house and about underlined They they heard synthesized vowels ranging between [aʊ] and [ʌʊ] 03/03/16

They listened to versions of vowel and chose which one they heard 03/03/16 From fush to feesh They listened to versions of vowel and chose which one they heard 03/03/16

03/03/16 From fush to feesh They listened to versions of vowel and chose which one they heard Some papers with written sentences said Michigan and others Canadian 03/03/16

03/03/16 From fush to feesh They listened to versions of vowel and chose which one they heard Some papers with written sentences said Michigan and others Canadian When is said Canadian people chose [ʌʊ] When it said Michigan people chose [aʊ] 03/03/16

03/03/16 From fush to feesh People “hear” what they expect, not what they actually hear. My wife's olive skin 03/03/16

From fush to feesh In Australia [ɪ] is closer to [i] 03/03/16 From fush to feesh In Australia [ɪ] is closer to [i] In New Zealand [ɪ] is closer to [ʌ] Fish and chips: feesh and cheeps or fush and chups 03/03/16

From fush to feesh Same format as Canadian study 03/03/16 From fush to feesh Same format as Canadian study Kiwi recorded sentences Aussies listened and saw on paper Some papers said New Zealander and other Australian. People “heard” [i] if it said AU and heard [ʌ] if it said NZ 03/03/16

03/03/16 From fush to feesh Similar study, but instead of paper saying AU or NZ, either a stuffed kiwi or a stuffed kangaroo was present in the room 03/03/16

03/03/16 From fush to feesh Similar study, but instead of paper saying AU or NZ, either a stuffed kiwi or a stuffed kangaroo was present in the room People “heard” [i] when the kangaroo was present and [ʌ] if the kiwi was present 03/03/16