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New England English: Large-Scale Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology

Stanford, James N.

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For nearly 400 years, New England has held an important place in the development of American English, and "New England accents" are very well known in the popular imagination. While other projects have studied various dialect regions of New England, this is the first large-scale academic project since the 1930s to focus specifically on New England English as a whole. In New England English, James N. Stanford presents new variationist sociolinguistic research covering all six New England states, with detailed geographic, acoustic phonetic, and statistical analyses of recently collected data from over 1,600 New Englanders. Stanford and his team of Dartmouth students built this dataset over 8 years of face-to-face fieldwork and online audio recordings and questionnaires.

Using acoustic phonetics, computational processing, and dialect maps, the book systematically documents major traditional New England dialect features and their current usage in terms of geography, age, gender, ethnicity, social class, and other factors. This dataset is interpreted in terms of William Labov's outward orientation of the language faculty, dialect levelling, convergence and divergence, and "Hub social geometry." The result is a wide-ranging empirical analysis and theoretical overview of this influential English dialect region.

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OXFORD UNIV PR

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Language Arts & Disciplines

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Hardcover

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9.3 Inches

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6.1 Inches

Publication Date

1970-01-01

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1.2 Inches

ISBN 10

0190625651

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1.5 Pounds

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9780190625658

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New England English: Large-Scale Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology