{"pk":187,"title":"Dialect experience modulates cue reliance in sociolinguistic convergence","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>Expectation-driven convergence occurs when speakers shift their speech to approximate the language they expect rather than observe from their interlocutor. In Wade (2022), participants produced more monophthongal /aI/—a salient feature of Southern U.S. English—after hearing other Southern-accented features. Here, by decoupling acoustic and social information with a dialect-label manipulation task, we investigate what types of cognitive associations account for this behavior: indirect socially-mediated associations that rely on recognizing that monophthongal /aI/ and other Southern-accented variants are both associated with the social category “Southern,” or direct associations between variants that rely on tracking their common co-occurrence at the individual level. We find that both acoustic and social-label cues trigger convergence, but in-group speakers from the South rely on acoustic cues, while out-group speakers from outside of the South are best cued by social-category labels. Results indicate a crucial role of dialect experience in the encoding and utilization of sociolinguistic knowledge.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Regular Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2h3118j2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lacey","middle_name":"R","last_name":"Wade","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":"Linguistics"},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Embick","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""},{"first_name":"Meredith","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tamminga","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2022-08-16T02:07:10.002000Z","date_accepted":"2023-09-13T12:00:30.759000Z","date_published":"2023-11-06T14:45:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"XML","type":"xml","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/glossapsycholinguistics/article/187/galley/2699/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"XML","type":"xml","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/glossapsycholinguistics/article/187/galley/2699/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/glossapsycholinguistics/article/187/galley/2700/download/"}]}