Sociophonetics

A Student's Guide
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-49878-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Di Paolo, Marianna

Yaeger-Dror, Malcah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Field Methods: gathering data, creating a corpus, and reporting your work 3. Making a Field Recording 4. Transcription 5. Issues in Using Legacy Data 6. Analyzing Stops 7. Analyzing Liquids 8. Analyzing Vowels 9. More on Vowels: Plotting and Normalization 10. Analyzing Prosody: Best Practices for the Analysis of Prosody 11. Acoustical Analysis of Voice Quality for Sociophonetic Purposes 12. Experimental Speech Perception and Perceptual Dialectology 13. Working with Children 14. Ascertaining Word Classes 15. Checking for Reliability 16. Statistical Analysis References

Über Autor(innen)

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'.