The Corpus Phonology of English: Multifocal Analyses of Variation

Anne Przewozny; Cécile Viollain; Sylvain Navarro

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

The Corpus Phonology of English

Multifocal Analyses of Variation

Anne Przewozny , Cécile Viollain and Sylvain Navarro

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474467018

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Uses corpus data to investigate variation and change in contemporary varieties of spoken English

Examines spoken varieties of English in Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand and the USA
Examines English in comparison to French, Polish and Japanese
Draws on data from the PAC Lancashire, Boston, Manchester, Michigan and Dunedin corpora, the IDEA corpus and the Greater Poland Speech Corpus
Brings together an international range of contributors in various fields of phonological research from the UK, France, Poland, Norway and JapanIncludes over 100 tables and figures to clearly demonstrate key concepts, data and ideas

Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a range of methodological and theoretical approaches. In doing so the book bridges traditionally separate fields such as experimental phonetics, theoretical phonology, language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Made up of 12 chapters, it explores a substantial range of linguistic phenomena. It covers auditory, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, second language pronunciation and perception, sociophonetics, cross-linguistic comparison of vowel reduction and methodological issues in the construction of phonological corpora. The book presents new data and analyses which demonstrate what phonologists, phoneticians and sociolinguists do with their corpora and show how various theoretical and experimental questions can be explored in light of authentic spoken data.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	x
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Anne Przewozny, Cécile Viollain and Sylvain Navarro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Gestural Delay and Gestural Reduction: Articulatory Variation in /l/-vocalisation in Southern British English Patrycja Strycharczuk and James M. Scobbie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. The Production and Perception of Derived Phonological Contrasts in Selected Varieties of English Emmanuel Ferragne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3. The Phonological Fuzziness of Palatalisation in Contemporary English: A Case of Near-phonemes? Olivier Glain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
4. Asymmetric Acquisition of English Liquid Consonants by Japanese Speakers Mariko Kondo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
5. R-sandhi in English and Liaison in French: Two Phenomenologies in the Light of the PAC and PFC Data Cécile Viollain, Sylvain Navarro and Jacques Durand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
6. A Corpora-based Study of Vowel Reduction in Two Speech Styles: A Comparison between English and Polish Małgorzata Kul and Paulina Zydorowicz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
7. On ‘Because’: Phonological Variants and their Pragmatic Functions in a Corpus of Bolton (Lancashire) English Daniel Huber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8. On the New Zealand Short Front Vowel Shift Cécile Viollain and Jacques Durand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
9. The Northern Cities Vowel Shift in Northern Michigan Madeline Travelet and Franck Zumstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
10. Levelling in a Northern English Variety: The Case of FACE and GOAT in Greater Manchester Hugo Chatellier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
11. A Study of Rhoticity in Boston: Results from a PAC Survey Sylvain Navarro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
12. A Corpus-based Study of /t/ flapping in American English Broadcast Speech Bente Hannisdal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Other: 56 B/W illustrations 45 B/W tables
Keywords: Language & Linguistics

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474467018