Grieve, Jack, Speelman, Dirk and Geeraerts, Dirk (2013). A multivariate spatial analysis of vowel formants in American English. Journal of Linguistic Geography, 1 (1), pp. 31-51.
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a multivariate spatial analysis of 38 vowel formant variables in the language of 402 informants from 236 cities from across the contiguous United States, based on the acoustic data from the Atlas of North American English (Labov, Ash & Boberg, 2006). The results of the analysis both confirm and challenge the results of the Atlas. Most notably, while the analysis identifies similar patterns as the Atlas in the West and the Southeast, the analysis finds that the Midwest and the Northeast are distinct dialect regions that are considerably stronger than the traditional Midland and Northern dialect region indentified in the Atlas. The analysis also finds evidence that a western vowel shift is actively shaping the language of the Western United States.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2013.3 |
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Divisions: | ?? 53981500Jl ?? College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Centre for Language Research at Aston (CLaRA) |
Additional Information: | Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 |
Publication ISSN: | 2049-7547 |
Last Modified: | 15 Oct 2024 07:13 |
Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2019 10:15 |
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Published Date: | 2013-06 |
Authors: |
Grieve, Jack
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0000-0003-3630-7349)
Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk |