Research Catalog

Title

Small-town values and big-city vowels : a study of the Northern Cities Shift in Michigan / Matthew J. Gordon.

Author

Gordon, Matthew J.

Publication

• [Durham] : Published by Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society, [2001]
• ©2001

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Details

Description

ix, 229 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Publication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 84

Uniform Title

Publication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 84.

Subject

• English language > Social aspects > Michigan
• English language > Michigan > Pronunciation
• English language > Phonology, Historical
• English language > Dialects > Michigan
• City and town life > Michigan
• English language > Vowels
• Americanisms > Michigan
• Linguistic change
• 17.21 monolingual sociolinguistics
• 18.04 English language
• Americanisms
• City and town life
• English language > Dialects
• English language > Pronunciation
• English language > Social aspects
• Language and languages
• Social conditions
• Amerikanisches Englisch
• Lautverschiebung
• Vokal
• Aussprache
• Soziolinguistik
• Mundart
• Sociale aspecten
• Klankverschuiving
• Klinkers
• Amerikaans
• Michigan > Social conditions
• Michigan > Languages
• Michigan
• Michigan
• Amerikanisches Englisch

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-229).

Contents

The Northern Cities Shift -- The Study of Language Change in Progress -- The Diffusion of Linguistic Innovations -- Chain Shifting -- Previous Research on the Northern Cities Shift -- Phonetic and Phonological Issues -- Geography of the NCS -- Social Distribution of the NCS -- Historical Evidence of the NCS -- The Time Depth of the NCS -- Chronology of the Changes -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Coding Procedures -- Quantitative Analysis -- Acoustic Analysis -- Results: ([varepsilon]), (I), and ([Lambda]) -- The Variable ([varepsilon]) -- Phonetic Description of the Variation -- Phonological Conditioning of ([varepsilon]) -- General Conditioning of ([varepsilon]) -- Phonological Conditioning of Variant Trajectories of ([varepsilon]) -- Social Distribution of ([varepsilon]) -- Social Aspects of General ([varepsilon])-Shifting -- Social Distribution of Variant Trajectories of ([varepsilon]) -- The Variable (I) -- Phonetic Description of the Variation -- Phonological Conditioning of (I) -- General Conditioning of (I) -- Phonological Conditioning of Variant Trajectories of (I) -- Social Distribution of (I) -- Social Aspects of General (I)-Shifting -- Social Distribution of Variant Trajectories of (I) -- The Variable ([Lambda]) -- Phonetic Description of the Variation -- Phonological Conditioning of ([Lambda]) -- General Conditioning of ([Lambda]) -- Phonological Conditioning of Variant Trajectories of ([Lambda]) -- Social Distribution of ([Lambda]) -- Social Aspects of General ([Lambda])-Shifting.

ISBN

• 0822364786
• 9780822364788

LCCN

99086333

OCLC

• ocm43296764
• 43296764
• SCSB-1217921

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library