'Northern cities shift' presentation slideshows

Yankee Cultural Imperialism and the Northern Cities Shift

Yankee Cultural Imperialism and the Northern Cities Shift. William Labov October 20, 2008 Yale University. PowerPoint can be downloaded from www.ling.upenn.edu/~labov. Ch. 1. Introduction Part A. Cross dialectal comprehension Ch. 2. Natural misunderstandings

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Enigmas of Uniformity

Enigmas of Uniformity. William Labov University of Pennsylvania. NWAV 38 Ottawa 2009. Variation and invariance in the speech community.

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Preview of Webinar

Preview of Webinar . Response to Questions & Comments The persistence of language ideology Review a -prefixing Review r -dropping Dialect and the media North Carolina Language History Introduction to Regional Dialects Regional Dialects of the Carolinas, including:

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The Northern Cities Shift

The Northern Cities Shift. A radical rotation of the short vowels in the Inland North of the United States, which began in the middle of the 20th century and is the major factor in the increasing differentiation of the vowel systems of the North from the Midland and the South.

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ENG 528: Language Change Research Seminar

ENG 528: Language Change Research Seminar. Sociophonetics : An Introduction Chapter 5: Vowels. Duration. Several uses in speech: phonological contrasts in quantity (i.e., long vs. short vowels, tense vs. lax vowels, single vs. geminate consonants)

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Questions? Comments?

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Dialects of North America

Dialects of North America. Based on data from the TELSUR Project, University of Pennsylvania. TELSUR Project , publishing The Atlas of North American English. Dialect Regions: North Central, The Inland North, The Northeast, The Midland (North and South), The South, The West.

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English accents

English accents. 13. General American (cont.). r-coloured vowels. NURSE [3` ] first, third, occur, serve lettER [@`] gather, standard, persist. historically: short vowels fell together as / ? / before /r/ [ ?] and [r] coalesced as a single rhotacized vowel

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Dialects and Sociolinguistics

Dialects and Sociolinguistics. dialect : a subset of language that varies (typically) by region, but also possibly by race or socioeconomic status sociolect : a subset of language defined by a particular social group, e.g. race, gender, sexuality, class, age, occupation accent slang

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