Vowel patterning of Mormons in Southern Alberta, Canada

Rosen, Nicole; Skriver, Crystal

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2014.12.007

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“…In Alberta, Jones (2015) reported that college students in Calgary raised both BAG and BEG, with half raising BAG to merge with the raised BEG. Similarly, Rosen and Skriver (2015) reported high degrees of BAG-raising in rural southern Alberta, with advancement in apparent time led by young women, whose BAG was substantially higher than their DRESS.…”

Section: P R E V E L a R M E R G E R I N S E A T T L Ementioning

confidence: 94%

Vague eggs and tags: Prevelar merger in Seattle

Freeman

2021

Lang Var Change

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This study describes prevelar merger, the raising of low-front /æ, ɛ/ and lowering of mid-front /e/ before the voiced velar /ɡ/, in Seattle, Washington. In the most advanced part of this change in progress, all twenty speakers (age 18–62, half men, half women, all white) produced /ɛɡ/ and /eɡ/ (beg, vague) as upgliding diphthongs merged in F1 and F2 directly between their nonprevelar counterparts (dress, face). /æɡ/ (bag) was also diphthongal, but its height varied between speakers, with middle-aged men showing near-complete three-way merger with beg-vague and younger speakers raising less, suggesting reversal or avoidance of this component. Previous work lacked information about vague and thus described bag- and beg-raising as failing to reach the height of nonprevelar face. This study revealed that vague is lowered, creating a merger target for both raised beg and bag within a separate diphthongal prevelar subsystem.

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confidence: 94%

Vague eggs and tags: Prevelar merger in Seattle

Freeman

2021

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“…The strong collinearity between network and occupation has largely prevented detailed statistical treatments of their interaction in previous sociolinguistic network studies. In contrast, several previous sociolinguistic studies illustrate the complex relationship between network structure and sex, often having to do with differences between men and women in the types of jobs or religious roles they typically occupy within particular communities (Gal 1979;Edwards 1986;Milroy 1987;Rosen & Skriver 2015;Sharma 2017). In fact, Labov (2001) finds significant network effects only for women.…”

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confidence: 89%

Bipartite network structures and individual differences in sound change

Dodsworth

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper assesses the influence of social network structure, and the role of the individual, in shaping the loss of the regional vowel system in the Southern U.S. city of Raleigh, North Carolina. The entire front vowel system, including monophthongal /aɪ/ as in ride, is shifting toward the national standard. Previous network studies in sociolinguistics have focused on individual-level network characteristics, such as integration in dense local networks or contact with speakers from different neighborhoods or ethnic groups. By contrast, the Raleigh study focuses on individuals' positions in the community network structure as represented by a bipartite network of people and the schools they attended. Bipartite networks indicate social proximity between people via their shared participation in an event or organization. With a 189-speaker sample of Raleigh natives, the network measure of structural equivalence offers a view of Raleigh's community network structure and of the individual's role in advancing the shift away from the Southern vowel system. Structural equivalence is the extent to which nodes inhabit similar positions within a social network. In this case, it describes the extent to which pairs of speakers attended the same schools. A distance matrix containing each pair's network proximity is used to predict speakers' linguistic similarity. The role of the individual and of the social indexicality of Southern variants is considered in the context of aggregate patterns of variation.

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“…For the purposes of this study, North American dialects refer to the regions of the United States and Canada outlined in The Atlas of North American English , which is based around phonetic, not lexical, differences between geographic regions (Labov et al, 2006 ; Boberg, 2018 ). For Canadian data specifically, the primary distinction was made between “urban” and “rural” speakers, based on its relative importance noted in comparison to much weaker geographic distinctions, at least for the corpus which makes up most Canadian data in this study (Rosen and Skriver, 2015 ). Within the British and Irish groups, dialects from England in this study are defined in terms of Trudgill's dialectal groupings (Trudgill, 1999 ), which groups regions in terms of both phonological and lexical similarity.…”

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“…Canadian Prairies (Rosen and Skriver, 2015 ): Spontaneous sociolinguistic interviews, recorded between 2010 and 2016, with speakers of varying ethnic backgrounds from the provinces of Alberta and Manitoba, conducted as part of the Language in the Prairies project, and was aligned using the MFA.…”

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Toward “English” Phonetics: Variability in the Pre-consonantal Voicing Effect Across English Dialects and Speakers

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Sonderegger

Stuart‐Smith

et al. 2020

Front. Artif. Intell.

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Recent advances in access to spoken-language corpora and development of speech processing tools have made possible the performance of "large-scale" phonetic and sociolinguistic research. This study illustrates the usefulness of such a large-scale approach-using data from multiple corpora across a range of English dialects, collected, and analyzed with the SPADE project-to examine how the pre-consonantal Voicing Effect (longer vowels before voiced than voiceless obstruents, in e.g., bead vs. beat) is realized in spontaneous speech, and varies across dialects and individual speakers. Compared with previous reports of controlled laboratory speech, the Voicing Effect was found to be substantially smaller in spontaneous speech, but still influenced by the expected range of phonetic factors. Dialects of English differed substantially from each other in the size of the Voicing Effect, whilst individual speakers varied little relative to their particular dialect. This study demonstrates the value of large-scale phonetic research as a means of developing our understanding of the structure of speech variability, and illustrates how large-scale studies, such as those carried out within SPADE, can be applied to other questions in phonetic and sociolinguistic research.

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Vowel patterning of Mormons in Southern Alberta, Canada

Cited by 37 publications

References 16 publications

Vague eggs and tags: Prevelar merger in Seattle

Vague eggs and tags: Prevelar merger in Seattle

Bipartite network structures and individual differences in sound change

Toward “English” Phonetics: Variability in the Pre-consonantal Voicing Effect Across English Dialects and Speakers

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