African American English speakers and their participation in local sound changes
Subtitle: a comparative study
By: edited by Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Erik R. Thomas.
Contributors: Yaeger-Dror, Malcah.; Thomas, Erik R.
Series: Publication of the American Dialect  Society -- no. 94; Publication of the American Dialect Society -- no. 94.
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780822367321
Subjects: Black English -- Phonology; English language -- Dialects -- United States; Sociolinguistics -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Erik R. Thomas and Malcah Yaeger-Dror; title: Vowel phonology and ethnicity in North Carolina / Becky Childs, Christine Mallinson and Jeannine Carpenter; title: Mapping a dialect "mixtury" : vowel phonology of African American and white men in rural southern Louisiana / Michael Wroblewski, Thea Strand, and Sylvie Dubois; title: African American vernacular English : vowel phonology in a Georgia community / Claire Andres and Rachel Votta; title: The vowel phonologies of African American and white New York City residents / Elizabeth L. Coggshall and Kara Becker; title: African American and white vowel systems in Pittsburgh / Maeve Eberhardt; title: Convergence in blue-collar Columbus, Ohio, African American and white vowel system / David Durian, Robin Dodsworth and Jennifer Schumacher; title: The vowel phonology of urban southeastern Wisconsin / Thomas C. Purnell.