Sociophonetics

Description

Sociophonetics: A Student’s Guide will provide 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.

This book:

• covers the key methodological, technical and procedural information needed to undertake sociophonetic research
• includes contributions from renowned scholars as well as new researchers in the area

• incorporates exercises and projects in each chapter

• has a companion website that will guide students to on-line sources containing manuals or tutorials for specific tools.

Sociophonetics will be essential reading for students and researchers with interests in sociophonetics and for those undertaking research projects in applied linguistics.

Contents

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

Author Bio

Marianna Di Paolo is currently an 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'.

Related Subject

1. Language & Linguistics