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Publication The Effect of Language Contact on Phonological Simplification: A Rapid and Anonymous Survey of Checked Vowel Merger in Shanghai Urban Dialect(2023-01-01) Gao, Xin; Tao, HuanThis paper aims to investigate how different intensities of language contact affect the process of phonological simplification. We conducted a sociolinguistic rapid and anonymous survey in Shanghai to collect information on along a bus route. The results show that area of residence has a significant effect on the merging result. The merger rate is higher in peripheral areas where language contact is more intensive than in central areas where language contact is less intensive. We therefore argue that the intensity of language contact affects the process of phonological simplification. The higher the intensity, the faster the phonological simplification.Publication Preface(2023-05-29) Balabanian, George; Li, Karen; Gao, XinThe University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Graduate Linguistics Society. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from NWAV and the Penn Linguistics Conference. This volume contains selected papers accepted into the 46th Penn Linguistics Conference. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, PLC 46 took place virtually and all authors of oral presentations were invited to contribute a ten page paper to this volume. We thank our authors for their contribution and their patience and understanding in this editing process. We also thank Johanna Benz, Pik Yu May Chan, June Choe, Gwen Hildebrandt, Aini Li, Daoxin Li, and Christine Soh for their help in editing. Since Vol. 14.2, PWPL has been an internet-only publication. As of September 2014, the entire back catalog has been digitized and made available on ScholarlyCommons@Penn. Please continue citing PWPL papers or issues as you would a print journal article, though you may also provide the URL of the manuscript. An example is below: **Lee, Soo-Hwan, and Yining Nie. 2022. In University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 28.1, ed. Johanna Benz and Yiran Chen, 86-95. Available at: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol29/iss1/ Publication in the University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) does not preclude submission of papers elsewhere; copyright is retained by the author(s) of individual papers. The PWPL editors can be contacted at: U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, 3401-C Walnut Street, Suite 300, C Wing, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 and working-papers@ling.upenn.edu. George Balabanian, Xin Gao, and Karen Li, Issue EditorsPublication Effects of Talker’s Dialect Labeling and Listener’s Language Experience on the Perception of Nasal Codas in Shanghai Mandarin(University of Pennsylvania, 2024-04-20) Gao, XinThis study delves into the impacts of both talker dialect labeling and listener language experience on the perception of a phonetically ambiguous nasal coda among Shanghai Mandarin speakers. Through a matched-guise online perception experiment, we explore how these factors influence speech perception. Our results indicate that greater exposure to a specific linguistic variety leads to a closer alignment of speech perception patterns with that variety. However, it is noteworthy that, in the context of the present study, talker's dialectal labeling does not appear to wield a significant influence on speech perception.Publication Rapid and Introspective Processing of Sociolinguistic Associations of (ING) in Context(2024-10) Gao, Xin; Wade, LaceyThis study investigated the rapid and introspective processing of sociolinguistic associations with the (ING) variable in context. Using a within-participant design and parallel paradigms for implicit and explicit tasks, we measured these processes in maximally similar settings. Participants completed tasks under varying levels of time pressure to elicit implicit and explicit responses to sociolinguistic cues. Our results show that implicit and explicit measures of the strength of sociolinguistic linkages do not significantly correlate, suggesting distinct processing mechanisms for these two types of associations. Furthermore, while context influenced explicit sociolinguistic evaluations, it did not significantly affect implicit processing. These findings indicate the complexity of sociolinguistic processing and point to the need for further research into the role of context, particularly its differential impact on implicit versus explicit sociolinguistic processing.