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E-Artikel
Titel:
Sociolinguistic Patterns in Seattle English
Beteiligte:
Wassink, Alicia Beckford
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015
Erschienen in:
Language Variation and Change, 27 (2015) 1, Seite 31-58
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/s0954394514000234
ISSN:
0954-3945;
1469-8021
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AbstractAlthough it was the focus of several publications by Carroll Reed in the 1950s and early 1960s, English spoken in the Pacific Northwestern United States (PNWE) has received minimal research attention in variationist sociolinguistics. This paper provides the first report from an ongoing sociophonetic study. Data from a single-ethnicity, 25-person subsample of the larger corpus, constituted to explore change in apparent time, clarifies Seattleites' use of key markers of Western speech, including merger of cot /a/ and caught /ɔ/, and the positions of all vowel phonemes in the system. Several heretofore unreported characteristic features are found, including a tendency for PNWE speakers to monophthongize /e:/ bake and to raise prevelar /æ/ bag and /ε/ beg toward /e:/.