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Cross-Speaker Covariation across Six Vocalic Changes in New York City English

Cross-Speaker Covariation across Six Vocalic Changes in New York City English This article examines differences in the way that innovative variants for six vocalic changes in New York City English—fronting of too, 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. It reports on an analysis of a recently developed corpus of conversational speech from 140 speakers, which 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 supralocal changes affecting too and dress. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage Duke University Press

Cross-Speaker Covariation across Six Vocalic Changes in New York City English

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Copyright
Copyright 2022 by the American Dialect Society
ISSN
0003-1283
eISSN
1527-2133
DOI
10.1215/00031283-9616153
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Abstract

This article examines differences in the way that innovative variants for six vocalic changes in New York City English—fronting of too, 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. It reports on an analysis of a recently developed corpus of conversational speech from 140 speakers, which 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 supralocal changes affecting too and dress.

Journal

American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic UsageDuke University Press

Published: Nov 1, 2022

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