Some acoustic cues for the perceptual categorization of American English regional dialects

By Cynthia G. Clopper, D. Pisoni. J. Phonetics, 2004

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Understanding near mergers: the case of morphological tone in Cantonese* (2007, background): “Clopper & Pisoni (2004) show that dialect perception appears to be exemplar-based as well.”
Disentangling accent from comprehensibility (2012, background): “…is unclear as to how sensitive native speakers are to dialectal differences, with some studies reporting low dialect classification rates (e.g., Clopper & Pisoni, 2004), there is some evidence that listeners may be influenced by the presence of non-standard dialect features in the speech they…”
The social life of phonetics and phonology (2006, background): “With respect to speech production models there has been a range of approaches put forward to explain variability in speech performance, including those by Kent and Minifie (1977), Keating (1990), Browman and Goldstein (1992), and Stevens (1998).”