Listening to the Past
Audio Records of Accents of English
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Part of Studies in English Language
- Editor: Raymond Hickey, Universität Duisburg–Essen
- Date Published: May 2019
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107660205
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Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This book is the first to bring together a team of globally recognised scholars to document and analyse these early recordings in a single volume. Looking at examples of regional varieties of English from England, Scotland, Ireland, the USA, Canada and other anglophone countries, the volume explores both standard and vernacular varieties, and demonstrates how accents of English have changed between the late nineteenth century and the present day. The socio-phonetic examinations of the recordings will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, the history of the English language, language variation and change, phonetics, and phonology.
Read more- The first book to analyse early audio recordings of English in a single volume
- The chapters provide examples of how acoustic socio-phonetics can be applied to analyse early recordings
- Led by Raymond Hickey, a well-respected historical linguist and an established Cambridge author, with chapters by a range of globally recognised scholars
Reviews & endorsements
"This is a broad, ambitious, and enlightening use of previously untapped sources. The collection provides an exciting new dimension to the analysis of variation and change in twentieth-century English."
Donka Minkova, University of California, Los AngelesSee more reviews"This is the first major publication to tap the wealth of available archival sound recordings for the historical study of spoken English. The editor is to be commended for bringing together a strong line-up of experts and for covering British and American English as well as several New Englishes."
Christian Mair, University of Freiburg'I am very glad that this book exists. As someone who is interested in all aspects of the phonological history of English, I find it a delight to see so much that is new and appetite-whetting gathered together in one volume, especially given that most of the chapters are discussing varieties that are far from the standard forms of English that have often been (understandably but frustratingly) the focus of much historical research.' Patrick Honeybone, Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics
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- Date Published: May 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107660205
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 35 mm
- weight: 0.99kg
- contains: 135 b/w illus. 14 maps 67 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Analysing early audio recordings Raymond Hickey
2. British Library sound recordings of vernacular speech Jonathan Robinson
3. Twentieth-century received pronunciation: prevocalic /r/ Anne Fabricius
4. Twentieth-century received pronunciation: stop articulation Raymond Hickey
5. Early London English Paul Kerswill and Eivind Torgersen
6. Merseyside Kevin Watson and Lynn Clark
7. Scotland - Glasgow and the Central Belt Jane Stuart-Smith and Eleanor Lawson
8. Early recordings of Irish English Raymond Hickey
9. Evidence of American regional dialects in early recordings Matthew J. Gordon and Christopher Strelluf
10. New England Daniel Ezra Johnson and David Durian
11. Upper Midwestern English Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy and Joseph Salmons
12. Western United States Valerie Fridland and Tyler Kendall
13. Analysis of the ex-slave recordings Erik R. Thomas
14. Archival data on earlier Canadian English Charles Boberg
15. Canadian raising in Newfoundland? Sandra Clarke, Paul De Decker and Gerard Van Herk
16. The Caribbean Shelome Gooden and Kathy-Ann Drayton
17. West Africa Magnus Huber
18. Earlier South Africa English Ian Bekker
19. Tristan da Cunha Daniel Schreier
20. Australia Felicity Cox
21. Early New Zealand English: the closing diphthongs Márton Sóskuthy, Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan, Katie Drager and Paul Foulkes
22. The development of recording technology Raymond Hickey.
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