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ArticleLanguage and speech2026

Perceptual Style-Shifting Across Singing and Speech: Music Activates Pop Song English for NZ Listeners.

Andy Gibson, Jennifer Hay

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Andy GibsonDepartment of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4008-1928
Jennifer HayNew Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0001-8127-0413

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Abstract

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) listeners' speech processing in musical and non-musical contexts. An analysis of the Phonetics of Popular Song corpus provides the foundation for the first experiment, revealing that sung dress and spoken trap have similar values for F1 in NZ. Experiment 1 then examines the categorization of these phonemes for words that fall on a continuum between

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MusicPhoneticsSingingSpeechSpeech PerceptionAdultFemaleHumansLanguageMaleNew ZealandYoung AdultAmerican singing accentNew Zealand Englishperceptual style-shiftPop Song Englishsinging accentssociophonetics

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