| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 574 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in English language |
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Studies in English language.
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| Contents |
Analysing early audio recordings / Raymond Hickey -- British library sound recordings of vernacular speech: they were lost and now they are found / Jonathan Robinson -- Twentieth-century received pronunciation: prevocalic /r/ / Anne Fabricius -- Twentieth-century received pronunciation: stop articulation / Raymond Hickey -- London's Cockney in the twentieth century: stability or cycles of contact-driven change? / Paul Kerswill and Eivind Torgersen -- The origins of Liverpool English / Kevin Watson and Lynn Clark -- Tyneside English / Dominic Watt and Paul Foulkes -- Scotland: Glasgow and the central belt / Jane Stuart-Smith and Eleanor Lawson -- Early recordings of Irish English / Raymond Hickey -- Evidence of American regional dialects in early recordings / Matthew J. Gordon and Christopher Strelluf -- New England / Daniel Ezra Johnson and David Durian -- Upper midwestern English / Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy and Joseph Salmons -- Western United States / Valerie Fridland and Tyler Kendall -- Analysis of the ex-clave recordings / Erik R. Thomas -- Archival data on earlier Canadian English / Charles Boberg -- Canadian raising in Newfoundland? Insights from early vernacular recordings / Sandra Clarke, Paul De Decker and Gerard Van Herk -- The Caribbean: Trinidad and Jamaica / Shelome Gooden and Kathy-Ann Drayton -- Early recordings from Ghana: a variationist approach on the phonological history of an outer circle variety / Magnus Huber -- Earlier South African English / Ian Bekker -- Early twentieth-century Tristan da Cunha h'English / Daniel Schreier -- Open vowels in historical Australian English / Felicity Cox and Sallyanne Palethorpe -- Early New Zealand English: the closing diphthongs / Márton Sóskuthy, Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan, Katie Drager and Paul Foulkes -- The development of recording technology / Raymond Hickey |
| Summary |
Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This book is the first to bring together a team of globally recognised scholars to document and analyse these early recordings in a single volume. Looking at examples of regional varieties of English from England, Scotland, Ireland, the USA, Canada and other anglophone countries, the volume explores both standard and vernacular varieties, and demonstrates how accents of English have changed between the late nineteenth century and the present day. The socio-phonetic examinations of the recordings will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, the history of the English language, language variation and change, phonetics, and phonology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Variation -- Research
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English language -- Dialects -- Research.
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English language -- Spoken English -- Research
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English language -- Phonology -- Research
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English language -- Listening comprehension -- Research
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English language -- English-speaking countries
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Sound recordings -- Research
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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English language
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English language -- Dialects -- Research
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English language -- Spoken English -- Research
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English-speaking countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hickey, Raymond, 1954- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781316868997 |
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1316868990 |
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