Sociolinguistic Patterns in Seattle English
Sociolinguistic Patterns in Seattle English
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西雅图英语的社会语言模式
DOI：
10.1017/s0954394514000234
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发表时间：
2015
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1
通讯作者：
Alicia B. Wassink
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作者：
Alicia B. Wassink
摘要 尽管美国西北太平洋地区的英语 (PNWE) 是卡罗尔·里德 (Carroll Reed) 在 20 世纪 50 年代和 1960 年代初发表的几本出版物的焦点，但它在变异社会语言学中受到的研究关注却很少。本文提供了正在进行的社交语音学研究的第一份报告。来自较大语料库的单种族 25 人子样本的数据旨在探索表观时间的变化，阐明了西雅图人对西方语音关键标记的使用，包括 cot /a/ 和 catch /ɔ/ 的合并，以及系统中所有元音音素的位置。我们发现了一些迄今为止未报道的特征，包括 PNWE 使用者倾向于将 /e:/ 烘焙成单音，并将前腭 /æ/ 包和 /ε/ 向 /e:/ 抬高。
Abstract Although it was the focus of several publications by Carroll Reed in the 1950s and early 1960s, English spoken in the Pacific Northwestern United States (PNWE) has received minimal research attention in variationist sociolinguistics. This paper provides the first report from an ongoing sociophonetic study. Data from a single-ethnicity, 25-person subsample of the larger corpus, constituted to explore change in apparent time, clarifies Seattleites' use of key markers of Western speech, including merger of cot /a/ and caught /ɔ/, and the positions of all vowel phonemes in the system. Several heretofore unreported characteristic features are found, including a tendency for PNWE speakers to monophthongize /e:/ bake and to raise prevelar /æ/ bag and /ε/ beg toward /e:/.