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The Origins of Missouri English
A Historical Sociophonetic Analysis
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2023
Summary
Missouri lies at a regional crossroads where the Midwest meets the South and the West begins. The contemporary dialect picture of the state reflects this blend of influences. Depending on their backgrounds, Missourians may share speech features with Chicagoans, Kentuckians, or Californians. The authors explore the history behind this current linguistic variation by listening to the voices of Missourians born between the 1880s and the 1930s. Drawing on a corpus of archival recordings, this book documents the unique linguistic features that characterized Missouri dialects over a century ago. State-of-the-art techniques in sociophonetics are applied to track patterns in pronunciation with a focus on regional differences related to vowel sounds. The study presents detailed examinations of several vocalic mergers and chain shifts heard today in various regional dialects. The evidence uncovered in the speech of older Missourians challenges prevailing ideas about the history of these particular features and about the origins and spread of sound change more generally. In addition to providing insight into the development of Missouri English and other American dialects, the book serves as a model for the application of large-scale sociophonetic analysis to the study of language history.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9726-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9727-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
308
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A Note about Contributions No access
Acknowledgments No access
Projects No access
Introduction to American Dialects and Dialectology No access
American Settlement of Missouri No access
The Regional Dialect Landscape of Missouri No access
A New Label for an Established Methodology No access
Historical Sociophonetic Studies That Weren’t Labeled “Historical Sociophonetic” No access
Oral History as Historical Sociophonetic Dataset No access
Conclusion No access
Automated Vowel Alignment and Extraction in Sociophonetics No access
How Does Automatic Measurement Work? No access
What Does “Accuracy” Mean When Working with Automated and Manual Vowel Measurements? No access
Run 1: Audio File without Adjustments or Corrections No access
Run 2: Cleaned Audio File No access
Run 3: Hand-Corrected TextGrid No access
Run 4: Post-Hoc Recoding after Running FAVE-Extract No access
Run 5: Post-Hoc Recoding by Lexical Set after FAVE-Align and Prior to FAVE-Extract No access
Run 6: Auditory Recoding after FAVE-Align and Prior to FAVE-Extract No access
Run 7: Adding Dictionary Entries to Account for Variant Pronunciations No access
Other Interventions No access
Conclusion No access
The Corpus of Recordings No access
Overview of the Missouri Mule History Project No access
Macro-level Social Categories No access
Methods of Acoustic Analysis No access
Compiling the Missouri Dataset No access
Quantifying Sound Changes No access
The Missouri Speech Survey Project No access
Background No access
The Pin-Pen Merger in Missouri Today No access
Sociophonetic Analysis of Archival Recordings No access
Conclusion No access
Introduction No access
Background and Status of the Merger in Missouri Today No access
Sociophonetic Analysis of Archival Recordings No access
Conclusion No access
Background No access
Results No access
Conclusion No access
Background No access
price No access
face and dress No access
Vowel Dynamics among fleece, kit, face, dress, and trap No access
Relationships between price Monophthongization and face-dress Overlap No access
Conclusion No access
The Northern Cities Shift No access
The Low-Back-Merger Shift No access
St. Louis and the Northern Cities Shift No access
Kansas City and the Low-Back-Merger Shift No access
