Full Description
Sociophonetics focuses on the relationship between phonetic or phonological form on the one hand, and social and regional factors on the other, working across fields as diverse as sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech sciences and psycholinguistics. Covering methodological, theoretical and computational approaches, this engaging introduction to sociophonetics brings new insights to age-old questions about language variation and change, and to the broader nature of language. It includes examples of important work on speech perception, focusing on vowels and sibilants throughout to provide detailed exemplification. The accompanying website provides a range of online resources, including audio files, data processing scripts and links. Written in an accessible style, this book will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech sciences and psycholinguistics. See book website at http://lingtools.uoregon.edu/sociophonetics/
Contents
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Sociophonetics = sociolinguists + phonetics; 2. Sociophonetics and its methods: foundations; 3. Sociophonetics and its methods: vowels and sibilants; 4. Regional variation and sociophonetics: a new dialectology?; 5. Sociophonetics and social factors; 6. Sociophonetics, style and identity; 7. Sociophonetics and sound change; 8. Sociophonetics and its methodological future; 9. In closing.
