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Migration, Accommodation and Language Change

Language at the Intersection of Regional and Ethnic Identity

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Bridget L. Anderson

    1. Old Dominion University, USA

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Language Variation (PSLV)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-3

  3. Empirical and Theoretical Background

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    Pages 4-17

  4. The Sociolinguistic and Demographic Context for the Study

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    Pages 18-34

  5. The Pilot Study

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    Pages 35-46

  6. Field Techniques and Acoustic Methods

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    Pages 47-64

  7. The High and Lower-High Back Vowels

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    Pages 65-101

  8. The Patterning of /ai/

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    Pages 102-128

  9. The Local and Supralocal Contexts for the Patterns of Usage

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    Pages 129-178

  10. Conclusions and Implications

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    Pages 179-183

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 184-196
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This work marries qualitative ethnographic methods to quantitative acoustic methods. The analysis describes how internal and external factors in phonological change differ and demonstrates how these two forces interact to structure the phonological systems of Appalachian and African American Southern Migrant speakers in the Detroit, Michigan area.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Old Dominion University, USA

    Bridget L. Anderson

About the author

BRIDGET L. ANDERSON is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA. Her research investigates the social and phonological meaning of fine-grained acoustic phonetic detail present in the everyday speech that people use to situate themselves in social worlds. It addresses the theoretical concern of the relationship between internal (i.e. phonological) tendencies, such as coarticulation, and external (i.e. social/ideological) constraints on language change. The overarching goal of her research is to model how the speech signal provides social/ideological as well as linguistic information and to determine the mechanisms by which acoustic cues carry different social/ideological information over time, space, socially meaningful groups, and for individuals.

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