Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/00031283-9940603
Donald L. Dyer
{"title":"One #$@% Good Read","authors":"Donald L. Dyer","doi":"10.1215/00031283-9940603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9940603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46508,"journal":{"name":"American Speech","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46646506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-26DOI: 10.1215/00031283-9766889
Steven Coats
Double modals are a well-known non-standard feature of some regional varieties of English in North America, but due to their rareness in spoken language, questions remain as to the inventory of possible combinatorial types and the geographic extent of their use in contemporary naturalistic speech. This study investigates double modals in the Corpus of North American Spoken English (CoNASE), a 1.2-billion-word corpus of time-stamped and geolocated automatic speech recognition (ASR) YouTube transcripts from the United States and Canada. Double modal sequences were identified in the corpus using regular expressions, then verified via manual examination of videos. The study represents the first large-scale, continent-wide analysis of double modals based entirely on recent naturalistic production data, rather than data such as elicited responses or sentence acceptability judgments, and it demonstrates a larger double modal inventory and a broader geographic range of use for the feature than has previously been documented, including in Canada.
{"title":"Naturalistic Double Modals in North America","authors":"Steven Coats","doi":"10.1215/00031283-9766889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9766889","url":null,"abstract":"Double modals are a well-known non-standard feature of some regional varieties of English in North America, but due to their rareness in spoken language, questions remain as to the inventory of possible combinatorial types and the geographic extent of their use in contemporary naturalistic speech. This study investigates double modals in the Corpus of North American Spoken English (CoNASE), a 1.2-billion-word corpus of time-stamped and geolocated automatic speech recognition (ASR) YouTube transcripts from the United States and Canada. Double modal sequences were identified in the corpus using regular expressions, then verified via manual examination of videos. The study represents the first large-scale, continent-wide analysis of double modals based entirely on recent naturalistic production data, rather than data such as elicited responses or sentence acceptability judgments, and it demonstrates a larger double modal inventory and a broader geographic range of use for the feature than has previously been documented, including in Canada.","PeriodicalId":46508,"journal":{"name":"American Speech","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47419023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-26DOI: 10.1215/00031283-9766911
Brian José
This article examines both the front and back shifts of the Southern Vowel Shift in a rural Kentuckiana (south-central Indiana) community through 50 years of real time, from the middle of the 20th century to the early 21st century. Euclidean distance measurements between the pair of high front vowels FLEECE & KIT and between the pair of mid front vowels FACE & DRESS are subjected to ANOVAs. The mid front vowels are found to be involved in the SVS and increasingly so through real time; the high front vowels, in contrast, not only aren’t participating in the SVS but have exhibited movements in non-SVS directions. Fronting of the back vowels is analyzed through linear mixed-effects regression analyses. Except for the FOOT vowel, which remains stable over time in this community, the other back vowels, GOOSE, GOAT, and the nucleus of the MOUTH diphthong, all show real-time changes that are consistent with the SVS. Some of the real-time developments are at odds with profiles of change through apparent time, which underscores the value of real-time data when and where it is available.
{"title":"A Real-Time Trend Study of the Southern Vowel Shift in Kentuckiana","authors":"Brian José","doi":"10.1215/00031283-9766911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9766911","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines both the front and back shifts of the Southern Vowel Shift in a rural Kentuckiana (south-central Indiana) community through 50 years of real time, from the middle of the 20th century to the early 21st century. Euclidean distance measurements between the pair of high front vowels FLEECE & KIT and between the pair of mid front vowels FACE & DRESS are subjected to ANOVAs. The mid front vowels are found to be involved in the SVS and increasingly so through real time; the high front vowels, in contrast, not only aren’t participating in the SVS but have exhibited movements in non-SVS directions. Fronting of the back vowels is analyzed through linear mixed-effects regression analyses. Except for the FOOT vowel, which remains stable over time in this community, the other back vowels, GOOSE, GOAT, and the nucleus of the MOUTH diphthong, all show real-time changes that are consistent with the SVS. Some of the real-time developments are at odds with profiles of change through apparent time, which underscores the value of real-time data when and where it is available.","PeriodicalId":46508,"journal":{"name":"American Speech","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43179328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-26DOI: 10.1215/00031283-9766922
Andrew Cheng
Longitudinal tracking of second dialect acquisition (SDA) normally requires carefully planned data collection and years of patience. However, the rise of self-recorded public speech data on internet archives such as YouTube affords researchers with a novel way of tracking language change over time. This paper presents two case studies of YouTube vloggers who have recorded their voices over the course of a decade (or longer) and have also relocated from different dialect regions of the United States to the West Coast. It reveals that, in addition to typical age-graded change such as a decrease in fundamental frequency over time, some vocalic aspects of their original dialects (Hawai’i English and Inland North English) shifted to become more in line with Western American English, while others did not. The disparity between the vowels that changed and those that did not for each speaker are discussed through the lenses of social salience, gender and race, and the audience design of YouTube vlogs.
{"title":"Second Dialect Acquisition “in real time”: Two longitudinal case studies from YouTube","authors":"Andrew Cheng","doi":"10.1215/00031283-9766922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9766922","url":null,"abstract":"Longitudinal tracking of second dialect acquisition (SDA) normally requires carefully planned data collection and years of patience. However, the rise of self-recorded public speech data on internet archives such as YouTube affords researchers with a novel way of tracking language change over time. This paper presents two case studies of YouTube vloggers who have recorded their voices over the course of a decade (or longer) and have also relocated from different dialect regions of the United States to the West Coast. It reveals that, in addition to typical age-graded change such as a decrease in fundamental frequency over time, some vocalic aspects of their original dialects (Hawai’i English and Inland North English) shifted to become more in line with Western American English, while others did not. The disparity between the vowels that changed and those that did not for each speaker are discussed through the lenses of social salience, gender and race, and the audience design of YouTube vlogs.","PeriodicalId":46508,"journal":{"name":"American Speech","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44274485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-26DOI: 10.1215/00031283-9616153
Bill Haddican, C. Cutler, Michael Newman, C. Tortora
This article examines differences in the way that innovative variants for six vocalic changes in New York City English—too-fronting, raising of price and face and lowering of bad, thought and dress—co-occur across speakers, and explores social correlates of these patterns of covariation. We report on an analysis of a recently developed corpus of conversational speech from 140 speakers. The analysis suggests that patterns of covariation across speakers are conditioned by the local social embedding of the changes. Changes affecting highly localized realizations for raised bad and thought are distributed differently from supra-local changes affecting too and dress.
{"title":"Cross-speaker covariation across six vocalic changes in New York City English","authors":"Bill Haddican, C. Cutler, Michael Newman, C. Tortora","doi":"10.1215/00031283-9616153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9616153","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines differences in the way that innovative variants for six vocalic changes in New York City English—too-fronting, raising of price and face and lowering of bad, thought and dress—co-occur across speakers, and explores social correlates of these patterns of covariation. We report on an analysis of a recently developed corpus of conversational speech from 140 speakers. The analysis suggests that patterns of covariation across speakers are conditioned by the local social embedding of the changes. Changes affecting highly localized realizations for raised bad and thought are distributed differently from supra-local changes affecting too and dress.","PeriodicalId":46508,"journal":{"name":"American Speech","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43929645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00031283-9767641
Michael D. Picone
{"title":"Language Along the Levee: Just Another Big Slice of the American Pie","authors":"Michael D. Picone","doi":"10.1215/00031283-9767641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9767641","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46508,"journal":{"name":"American Speech","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47708083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00031283-9767654
L. Edmunds
{"title":"The Martini-Henry Rifle and the Origin of Martini as the Name of the Cocktail","authors":"L. Edmunds","doi":"10.1215/00031283-9767654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9767654","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46508,"journal":{"name":"American Speech","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48449962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-10DOI: 10.1215/00031283-9616164
Michael D. Picone
{"title":"Just What is “American Speech” Anyway?","authors":"Michael D. Picone","doi":"10.1215/00031283-9616164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9616164","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46508,"journal":{"name":"American Speech","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42820683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：