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The perception of social meanings and styles is dependent upon the contributions of a constellation of multiple covarying sociolinguistic variants. This suggests that listeners maintain associations between stylistically coherent variants and their social meanings in mental representation. The present paper expands upon this notion, aiming to gain converging evidence from production as a way to explore the cognitive representations of variants and their social meanings more deeply. To do this, four American English speakers were asked to produce sentences containing (ING) words (as in talking vs. talkin ’), in their – in and – ing variants, in a laboratory setting. Productions were acoustically analyzed to evaluate whether the speakers also manipulated other stylistically-linked variables, even though prompted only to manipulate (ING). The variant – in has been shown to index a range of social meanings in American English, including Southern and casual. Results demonstrate that speakers indeed modulated other variables beyond (ING) in ways that align with the Southern and casual social meanings of – in . That producing one variant (– in ) could lead to stylistically congruent realizations of other variables suggests that speakers not only hold indexical linkages between variants and styles in mental representation, but that variants are also linked to variants of other variables through associations with those styles. A better understanding of social meaning in cognition provides an important base upon which to advance research on sociolinguistic perception. Keywords: covariation; social meaning; cognitive representation; style. Resumo: A percepcao de significados sociais e de estilos depende das constribuicoes de uma constelacao de multiplas variantes sociolinguisticas em covariacao. Isto sugere que os falantes mantem associacoes entre variantes estilisticamente coerentes e seus significados sociais numa representacao mental. O presente trabalho expande essa nocao, com o objetivo de ganhar evidencias advindas da producao como meio de explorar mais profundamente as representacoes cognitivas de variantes e de seus significados sociais. Para isso, quatro falantes de ingles norte-americano foram convidados a produzir sentencas que contem variantes de (ING) (como em talking vs. talkin’ ‘falando’), em contexto de laboratorio. As producoes foram acusticamente analisadas no sentido de avaliar se os falantes tambem manipularam estilisticamente outras variaveis, ainda que houvessem sido instruidos a manipular apenas (ING). Trabalhos anteriores ja mostraram que a variante –in indicia uma grande extensao de significados sociais em ingles norte-americano, incluindo sotaque sulista e casualidade. Os resultados mostram que os falantes de fato modulam outras variaveis alem de (ING) que se alinham a esses significados sociais de –in. O fato de que a producao de uma variante pode conduzir a realizacoes estilisticamente congruentes de variantes de outras variaveis sugere que os falantes nao apenas detem associacoes indiciais entre variantes e estilos em sua representacao mental, mas tambem que variantes de diferentes variaveis estao ligadas entre si na sua associacao a tais estilos. Entender melhor a significacao social de multiplas variaveis na cognicao oferece uma base importante na qual deve avancar a pesquisa sobre percepcao sociolinguistica. Palavras-chave: covariacao; significado social; representacao cognitiva; estilo.

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Stylistically coherent variants: Cognitive representation of social meaning / Variantes estilisticamente coerentes: representação cognitiva de significados sociais