1st Edition

Sociophonetics A Student's Guide

Edited By Marianna Di Paolo, Malcah Yaeger-Dror Copyright 2010
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    Sociophonetics: a student’s guide provides a practical ‘how-to’ manual that will give students a clear understanding of the technical and theoretical advances in acoustic phonetics, speech perception, and recording technology which is essential for sociolinguistic research.

    Balancing theory, practical information and research protocol, this book:

    • Covers the key methodological, technical and procedural information needed to undertake sociophonetic research
    • Includes contributions from key academics and ground-breaking researchers
    • Incorporates exercises and projects in each chapter
    • Has a companion website that provides additional materials for students and professors, featuring exercises, links to on-line sources for specific tools and includes a large selection of audio and video clips.

    Sociophonetics is essential reading for graduate students and researchers with interests in sociophonetics, phonology and for those undertaking research projects in applied linguistics.

    Contents

    Chapter 1 Introduction

    Marianna Di Paolo and Malcah Yaeger-Dror

    Chapter 2 Field Methods: gathering data, creating a corpus, and reporting your work

    Marianna Di Paolo and Malcah Yaeger-Dror

    Chapter 3 Making a Field Recording

    Christopher Cieri

    Chapter 4 Transcription

    Margaret Maclagan and Jennifer Hay

    Chapter 5 Issues in Using Legacy Data

    Paulina Bounds, Naomi Palosaari, and William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

    Chapter 6 Analyzing Stops

    Paul Foulkes, Gerard Docherty, and Mark Jones

    Chapter 7 Analyzing Liquids

    Eleanor Lawson, Jane Stuart-Smith, James M. Scobbie, Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Margaret Maclagan

    Chapter 8 Analyzing Vowels

    Marianna Di Paolo, Malcah Yaeger-Dror, and Alicia Beckford Wassink

    Chapter 9 More on Vowels: Plotting and Normalization

    Dominic Watt, Anne Fabricius and Tyler Kendall

    Chapter 10 Analyzing Prosody: Best Practices for the Analysis of Prosody

    Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Zsuzsanna Fagyal

    Chapter 11 Acoustical Analysis of Voice Quality for Sociophonetic Purposes 

    John H. Esling and Jerold A. Edmondson

    Chapter 12 Experimental Speech Perception and Perceptual Dialectology

    Cynthia Clopper, Jen Hay, and Bartlomiej Plichta

    Chapter 13 Working with Children

    Ghada Khattab and Julie Roberts

    Chapter 14 Ascertaining Word Classes

    Betty S. Phillips

    Chapter 15 Checking for Reliability

    Cynthia G. Clopper

    Chapter 16 Statistical Analysis

    Jen Hay

    References

    Biography

    Marianna Di Paolo is currently Associate Professor at the University of Utah where she has served as Director of the Linguistics Program (1993-1999) and then as the first Chair of the Department of Linguistics (1999-2005). Her primary research interest has been variation and change in the English of the Intermountain West with a concentration on on-going phonetic and phonological changes in the vowels of this region.

    Malcah Yaeger-Dror is currently a research scientist at the University of Arizona. Her primary research interests include the analysis of disagreement strategies keynoting prosodic variation and the analysis of the cognitive underpinnings which can reveal whether a given 'change' produced by a speaker is from 'above' or 'below' the speaker's 'level of awareness'.

    "This exquisite student's guide takes the beginner from the first steps in fieldwork and acoustics to the more advanced topics of sociophonetics.  It is written by leading scholars known for their student-friendly stance at workshops at international conferences.  I will be using it for years to come as a set text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and in fine-tuning my own work in this fast-growing research area." Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa.  

     "The book is a rich source of information on methodologies of sociophonetic analysis, with information ranging from the basics of data collection to the most advanced computational techniques. The editors have done a remarkable job of putting together a variety of papers on phonetic, acoustic, and statistical analyses and linking them effectively to social factors such as speaker, age, purpose (i.e. normal speech or formal interviews), role, and context." -- Seetha Jayaraman, Dhofar University, LINGUIST List