Listeners’ perceptions of sound changes may be influenced by priming them with social information about the speaker. It is not clear, however, whether this occurs for sociolinguistic variables that pass below the level of awareness. This article investigates whether visual speaker gender affects the perception of goose-fronting in Standard Southern British English, a sound change that is led by young women yet does not fulfil criteria for sociolinguistic salience. Participants from across the United Kingdom completed a word identification experiment based on a gender-ambiguous synthesized fleece-goose continuum while primed with an image of a man’s or a woman’s face. The study did not find a significant main effect of priming, but men identified fronter tokens as goose when primed with a woman’s face. I argue that sociolinguistic priming effects may be over-stated and that future priming experiments should be designed with maximal statistical power where possible.

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社会语言语言感知中的说话者性别和显着性：标准南部英式英语中的鹅正面

听众对声音变化的感知可能会受​​到有关演讲者的社会信息的影响。然而，尚不清楚这种情况是否发生在低于意识水平的社会语言变量中。本文调查了视觉说话者的性别是否会影响标准南部英式英语中鹅正面的感知，这是一种由年轻女性主导的声音变化，但并不符合社会语言学显着性的标准。来自英国各地的参与者完成了一项基于性别模糊的合成羊毛-鹅连续体的单词识别实验，同时以男性或女性的面部图像为基础。该研究没有发现启动的显着主效应，但是当用女性的脸启动时，男性将前额标记识别为鹅。