A reader in sociophonetics
By: edited by Dennis R. Preston, Nancy Niedzielski
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 219
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781934078044; 9781934078051; 9781934078068
Description: "Sociophonetics is a sub-branch that has attracted attention recently. Advances in speech science and technological simulation allow increasingly sophisticated studies of language contact and chance. Particularly at the level of pronunciation, these studies show that language variety is robust and socially embedded. Although the book assumes some knowledge of basic acoustics and variationist studies, the general introduction and the chapter and section introductions provide a review of practices in the field, including those of collection, analysis, and intepretation."
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Sociophonetic studies of language variety production; title: And perception / Nancy Niedzielski and Dennis R. Preston; title: Part I. Studies of Production: 1. The Peripatetic History of Middle English / Alice Faber, Marianna Di Paolo, and Catherine T. Best; title: 2. Social and phonetic conditioners on the frequency and degree of 'intrusive /r/' in New Zealand English / Jen Hay and Margaret Maclagan; title: 3. Mexican-American identity and the acquisition of regional US English / Rebecca Roeder; title: 4. Rhythm types and the speech of working-class youth in a banlieue of Paris: The role of vowel elision and devoicing / Zsuzsanna Fagyal; title: 5. The sociophonetics of prosodic contours on NEG in three language communities: Teasing apart sociolinguistic and phonetic influences on speech / Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Shoji Takano, Tania Granadillo, and Lauren Hall-Lew; title: 6. An emerging gender difference in Japanese vowel devoicing / Terumi Imai, Wittenberg College; title: Part II. Studies of Perception: 7. Regional stereotypes and the perception of Japanese vowel devoicing / Midori Yonezawa Morris; title: 8. Phonetic detail, linguistic experience, and the classification of regional language varieties in the United States / Cynthia G. Clopper; title: 9. Regional identity and the comprehension of varieties / Bartek Plichta and Brad Rakerd; title: 10. Belle's body just caught the fit gnat: The perception of Northern Cities Shifted vowels by local speakers / Dennis R. Preston; title: 11. Linguistic security, ideology, and vowel perception / Nancy Niedzielski; title: 12. Identification of African American speech / Erik R. Thomas, Norman E. Lass, and Jeannine Carpenter; title: Part III. Studies of perception and production: 13. Phonetic detail in the perception of ethnic varieties of US English / Thomas Purnell; title: 14. Sound judgements: Perception of indexical features in children's speech / Paul Foulkes, Gerard Docherty, Ghada Khattab, and Malcah Yaeger-Dror; title: 15. Avant-garde Dutch: A perceptual, acoustic and evaluational study / Renee van Bezooijen and Vincent J. van Heuven; title: 16. The imitation of language varieties: Production and perception / Betsy Evans; title: 17. The cycle of production, ideology, and perception in the speech of Memphis, TN / Valerie Fridland.