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Combining research in sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech sciences and psycholinguistics, this introduction to sociophonetics explores long-standing questions about the nature of sound change in human language. Written in an engaging style, and including an accompanying website, it will be welcomed by researchers, students and teachers alike.
List of contents
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Sociophonetics = sociolinguists + phonetics; 2. Sociophonetics and its methods: foundations; 3. Sociophonetics and its methods: vowels and sibilants; 4. Regional variation and sociophonetics: a new dialectology?; 5. Sociophonetics and social factors; 6. Sociophonetics, style and identity; 7. Sociophonetics and sound change; 8. Sociophonetics and its methodological future; 9. In closing.
About the author
Tyler Kendall is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. He is the creator of several speech archives, software programs and corpora, including the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project. He is author of the book Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation (2013).Valerie Fridland is Professor at University of Nevada, Reno. Recent publications appear in Journal of Phonetics, Language Variation and Change, and American Speech. She is lead editor of Speech in the Western States Volumes I, II and III, and writes monthly for Psychology Today.
Summary
Combining research in sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech sciences and psycholinguistics, this introduction to sociophonetics explores long-standing questions about the nature of sound change in human language. Written in an engaging style, and including an accompanying website, it will be welcomed by researchers, students and teachers alike.
