" Drawing on data from well-known actors in popular films and TV shows, this reference guide surveys the representation of accent in North American film and TV over eight …
EXPOSITION A growing amount of research on North American English varieties shows that many sociolinguistic variables peaked among the Baby Boomer Generation (born …
M Nesbitt - American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, 2021 - read.dukeupress.edu
Recent acoustic analyses examining English in the North American Great Lakes region show that the area's characteristic vowel chain shift, the Northern Cities Shift (NCS), is …
J Grieve, JN Stanford - Publication of the American Dialect …, 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
In recent years there has been growing interest in the use of large linguistic datasets collected online to study language variation and change. Research in this emerging …
V Fridland, T Kendall - Publication of the American Dialect …, 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
Change charting the course for deeper investigation of key regional American vowel chain shifts taking both a linguistic and social perspective. But it seems safe to describe the last …
M Nesbitt, A Watts - Linguistics Vanguard, 2022 - degruyter.com
Abstract The Eastern Massachusetts Life and Language project was in its planning stages when the COVID-19 pandemic began to make headway in the United States in 2020. We …
C Kim, S Reddy, JN Stanford… - … Speech: A Quarterly …, 2019 - read.dukeupress.edu
This study aims to (1) identify current geographic patterns of major New England dialect features relative to prior work in previous generations and (2) test the effectiveness of large …
M Nesbitt, JN Stanford - Language Variation and Change, 2021 - cambridge.org
The Low-Back-Merger Shift (LBMS) is a major North American vowel chain shift spreading across many disparate dialect regions. In this field-based study, we examine the speech of …
An in-depth exploration of the sound systems of varieties of English around the world, written by a renowned authority in the field In Sounds of English Worldwide, Raymond Hickey …