Sources of variation in the speech of African Americans: Perspectives from sociophonetics

C Farrington, S King, M Kohn - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract African American Language (AAL) is one of the most researched varieties of
American English, yet key aspects of its development and spread remain under‐theorized …

5. Demographic Change, Migration, and the African American Vowel System in Georgia

J Forrest, MEL Renwick, JA Stanley… - Publication of the …, 2024 - read.dukeupress.edu
The theme of this volume is generational trends in language change, with an emphasis on
the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition as an important period of time. Many studies have …

[图书][B] Mexican American English: Substrate influence and the birth of an ethnolect

ER Thomas - 2019 - books.google.com
Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its
varied influences across multiple generations, this volume provides true insight into how …

[图书][B] African American Language: Language development from infancy to adulthood

M Kohn, W Wolfram, C Farrington, J Renn… - 2020 - books.google.com
From birth to early adulthood, all aspects of a child's life undergo enormous development
and change, and language is no exception. This book documents the results of a pioneering …

6. Mass Migration, Social Networks, and Generational Change: The Proliferation of ain't for didn't in Post-Migration Philadelphia

S Fisher - Publication of the American Dialect Society, 2024 - read.dukeupress.edu
Sociolinguistics has long demonstrated the importance of social networks on linguistic
stability as well as the spread of linguistic change (Milroy 1980; Labov 2001). Work within …

Contextualizing/s/retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington DC African American Language

K Gunter, C Vaughn, T Kendall - Language Variation and Change, 2021 - cambridge.org
Recent work has demonstrated an ongoing change across varieties of English in
which/s/retracts before consonants, particularly before/tɹ/clusters (eg, Lawrence, 2000; …

Multidimensional identity as bricolage: Indexing race and place in Bakersfield, California

S King, J Calder - American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic …, 2024 - read.dukeupress.edu
While traditional variationist research has been critiqued for positioning ethnic and regional
variation in terms of separate “lects,” recent work has adopted a more nuanced view in …

'I don't come off as timid anymore': Real‐time change in early adulthood against the backdrop of the community

M Brook, BL Jankowski, L Konnelly… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The period from ages 18 to 25 is sometimes called 'emerging adulthood'(Arnett,) since it has
come to be characterized by major life transitions. Linguistically, this means that lifespan …

Language Variation and the Great Migration: Regionality and African American Language

CR Farrington - 2019 - search.proquest.com
Abstract The Great Migration of African Americans out of the rural South between 1915 and
1970 is the reason why African American Language (AAL) is found across a wide …

Dyadic analysis: Factors affecting African American English usage and accommodation in adolescent peer dyads

J Van Hofwegen - Language & Communication, 2015 - Elsevier
This study analyzes relative accommodation of African American English (AAE) usage in
peer interactions for 201 African American adolescent dyads at Grades 6, 8, and 10. A …