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Record W4400485053 · doi:10.1215/00031283-11466458

Production of Prevelar /æ/-Raising in Colorado and Ontario

2024· article· en· W4400485053 on OpenAlexaffabout
Lisa Sullivan

Bibliographic record

VenuePublication of the American Dialect Society · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLinguistic Variation and Morphology
Canadian institutionsCarleton UniversityUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRaising (metalworking)Production (economics)Environmental scienceEconomicsMathematics

Abstract

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Abstract Prevelar /æ/-raising (bag-raising) is a process in which some speakers of North American English raise /æ/ before /ɡ/ but not /k/. Self-report data suggests that this process occurs in Canada and regions of the United States close to the Canadian border. Acoustic data seems to support this finding, with evidence for bag-raising across Canada and in the Pacific Northwest, the Upper Midwest, and California in the United States. However, this evidence is somewhat limited, particularly as there is no documentation of bag-raising (or lack thereof) in regions where it is not expected to occur. The current study adds to our knowledge about the distribution of the production of bag-raising by acoustically documenting its production in Colorado, where it is not expected to occur and has not been previously studied, and Ontario, where it is expected to occur and has been studied but not specifically targeted. The results indicate that Ontarians bag-raise while Coloradans do so little, if at all. Furthermore, there is a fair amount of variation in bag-raising across participants that cannot be accounted for by region alone.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.499
Threshold uncertainty score0.978

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.311
Teacher spread0.287 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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