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Pronunciation of New Zealand English monophthongs varies across speakers, distinguishing ‘leaders’ from ‘laggers’ of ongoing sound changes. But do listeners make social judgements based on these vowels? Yes! doi.org/10.16995/lab... @jbhay.bsky.social @joshwilsonblack.bsky.social #LabPhon #openaccess
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Exploring the social meaning of the ‘leader-lagger’ vowels in New Zealand English
Clusters of New Zealand English (NZE) monophthongs systematically covary across speakers (Brand et al., 2021; Hurring et al., 2025), meaning information about how a speaker realises one vowel also giv...