1st Edition
Sociophonetics A Student's Guide
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