Sociophonetics
A Student's Guide
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-49879-1
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1st October 2010 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 350
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About the Book
Sociophonetics: A Student’s Guide will provide 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.
This book will:
- Cover the key methodological, technical and procedural information needed to undertake sociophonetic research
- Include contributions from key researchers in the field such as Gerard Docherty, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Dennis Preston
- Incorporate exercises and projects in each chapter
- Have a companion website that will guide students to on-line sources containing manuals or tutorials for specific tools.
Sociophonetics will be essential reading for students and researchers with interests in sociophonetics and for those undertaking research projects in applied linguistics.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: What is sociophonetics? Section 1: Acquiring and maintaining the corpus 2. Sampling 3. Data-gathering and elicitation 4. Capturing audio for analysis 5. Building & maintaining a corpus 6. Transcription 7. Issues in using legacy data Section 2: Methodology: Acoustic and Perceptual studies 8. Analyzing vowels 9. More on vowels: plotting and normalization 10. Analyzing suprasegmentals 11. Analyzing some aspects of voice quality 12. Analyzing (R) 13. Analyzing (L) 14. Analyzing stops 15. Experimental speech perception & Perceptual dialectology Section 3:Other methodological considerations 16. Working with children 17. Checking for reliability 18. Ascertaining word classes 19. Statistical analysis 20. Reporting your work
About the Author(s)
Marianna Di Paolo is currently an 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'.