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Investigating variation and change in contemporary varieties of spoken English on the basis of authentic corpus data
Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a range of methodological and theoretical approaches. In doing so the book bridges traditionally separate fields such as experimental phonetics, theoretical phonology, language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Made up of 12 chapters, it explores a substantial range of linguistic phenomena. It covers auditory, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, second language pronunciation and perception, sociophonetics, cross-linguistic comparison of vowel reduction and methodological issues in the construction of phonological corpora. The book presents new data and analyses that demonstrate what phonologists, phoneticians and sociolinguists do with their corpora and show how various theoretical and experimental questions can be explored in light of authentic spoken data.
Key Features
. Examines spoken varieties of English in Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand and the USA
. Examines English in comparison to French, Polish and Japanese
. Draws on data from the PAC Lancashire, Boston, Manchester, Michigan and Dunedin corpora, the IDEA corpus and the Greater Poland Speech Corpus
. Brings together an international range of contributors in various fields of phonological research from the UK, France, Poland, Norway and Japan
. Includes over 100 tables and figures to clearly demonstrate key concepts, data and ideas
Anne Przewozny is Lecturer in English Phonology at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès.
Sylvain Navarro is Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Paris.
Cécile Viollain is Lecturer in English Linguistics at the Paris Nanterre University.
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List of contents
Introduction,
Anne Przewozny, Cécile Viollain and Sylvain NavarroChapter 1: Gestural delay and gestural reduction. Articulatory variation in /l/-vocalisation in Southern British English,
Patrycja Strycharczuk and James ScobbieChapter 2: The production and perception of derived phonological contrasts in selected varieties of English,
Emmanuel FerragneChapter 3: The phonological fuzziness of palatalisation in contemporary English: a case of near-phonemes?
Olivier Glain
Chapter 4: Asymmetric acquisition of English liquid consonants by Japanese speakers,
Mariko KondoChapter 5: R-sandhi in English and liaison in French: two phenomenologies in the light of the PAC and PFC data,
Cécile Viollain , Sylvain Navarro and Jacques DurandChapter 6: A corpora-based study of vowel reduction in two speech styles: a comparison between English and Polish,
Malgorzata Kul and Paulina Zydorowicz
Chapter 7: On 'because': phonological variants and their pragmatic functions in a corpus of Bolton (Lancashire) English,
Daniel Huber
Chapter 8: On the New Zealand Short Front Vowel Shift,
Cécile Viollain and Jacques DurandChapter 9: The Northern Cities Vowel Shift in Northern Michigan,
Madeline Travelet and Franck Zumstein
Chapter 10: Levelling in a northern English variety: the case of face and goat in Greater Manchester,
Hugo ChatellierChapter 11: A study of rhoticity in Boston: results from a PAC survey,
Sylvain NavarroChapter 12: A study of /t/ flapping in American English broadcast,
Bente Hannisdal
About the author
Anne Przewozny is Lecturer in English Phonology at Université Toulouse Jean JaurèsCécile Viollain is Lecturer in English Linguistics at Université Paris NanterreSylvain Navarro is Lecturer in English Linguistics at Université de Paris
Summary
Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a range of methodological and theoretical approaches.
