Migration, Accommodation and Language Change: Language at the Intersection of Regional and Ethnic Identity (Palgrave Studies in Language Variation) - Softcover

Anderson, B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349284335 ISBN 13: 9781349284337

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

This work marries qualitative ethnographic methods to quantitative acoustic methods. The analysis describes how internal and external factors in phonological change differ and demonstrates how these two forces interact to structure the phonological systems of Appalachian and African American Southern Migrant speakers in the Detroit, Michigan area.

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About the Author

BRIDGET L. ANDERSON is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA. Her research investigates the social and phonological meaning of fine-grained acoustic phonetic detail present in the everyday speech that people use to situate themselves in social worlds. It addresses the theoretical concern of the relationship between internal (i.e. phonological) tendencies, such as coarticulation, and external (i.e. social/ideological) constraints on language change. The overarching goal of her research is to model how the speech signal provides social/ideological as well as linguistic information and to determine the mechanisms by which acoustic cues carry different social/ideological information over time, space, socially meaningful groups, and for individuals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349284335
• ISBN 13: 9781349284337
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214