Sociophonetics

LIN 1256: Sociophonetics, Fall 2011

Readings

Textbooks are available at the University of Toronto Bookstore.

Required textbook:

DYD = DiPaolo, Marianna & Malcah Yaeger-Dror. 2010. Sociophonetics: A Student’s Guide. Routledge.

2 recommended textbooks:

• Th = Thomas, Erik. 2011. Sociophonetics: An Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan.
• P&N = Preston, Dennis & Nancy Niedzielski. 2010. A Reader in Sociophonetics.

Articles available through Blackboard

Clopper, C.  2010. Phonetic detail, linguistic experiences and the classification of regional language varieties in the United States. In D. Preston & N. Niedzielski. A Reader in Sociophonetics. De Gruyter Mouton. 203-222.

Drager, K. 2010. Sociophonetic Variation in Speech Perception. Language and Linguistics Compass 4: 473–480.

Foulkes, P., G. Docherty & D. Watt. 2005 Phonological variation in child directed speech. Language 81.1:177-206.

Hay, J. & M. Maclagan. 2010. Social and phonetic conditioners on the frequency and degree of 'intrusive /r/ ' in New Zealand English. In D. Preston & N. Niedzielski. A Reader in Sociophonetics. De Gruyter Mouton. 41-70.

Jacewicz, E.,  R. Fox, C. O'Neill & J. Salmons. 2009. Articulation rate across dialect, age, and gender. LVC 21.2: 233-256.

Jannedy, S. &  J. Hay. 2006. Modelling sociophonetic variation. Journal of Phonetics. Introduction.

Labov, W., M. Baranowski & A. Dinkin. 2010. The effect of outliers on the perception of sound change. LVC 22.2: 175-90.

Low, E.L., Grabe, E. and Nolan, F.J. 2000. Quantitative characterizations of speech rhythm: syllable-timing in Singapore English. Language and Speech 43:377-402.

Maclagan, M., C. Watson, R. Harlow, J. King & P. Keegan. 2009. /u/ fronting and /t/ aspiration in Māori and New Zealand English. LVC 21.2:175-192.

Pierrehumbert, J.B. 2002. Word-specific phonetics. In C. Gussenhoven & N. Warner.(eds.) Laboratory Phonology 7. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 101-139.

Purnell, T., J. Salmons, D. Tepeli, and J. Mercer.  2005.  Structured  heterogeneity and change in laryngeal phonetics: Upper Midwestern final obstruents.   Journal of English Linguistics 33:307-38.