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Chapter 12 - Compiling a Speech Corpus of German English: Rhoticity and the BATH Vowel

from III - Domains and Features of English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2019

By
Sandra Jansen  and
Christian Langstrof
Edited by
Raymond Hickey
Raymond Hickey
Affiliation:
Universität Duisburg–Essen
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Summary

The investigation of structured variation in native communities lies at the center of language variation and change studies which was introduced by Labov (1963; 1966 [2006]). Since the 1960s this quantitative approach has been highly influential in understanding variation and language change processes by investigating production and perception of language use (cf. e.g. Langstrof 2009; Hay and Drager 2010; Jansen 2019).

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English in the German-Speaking World , pp. 229 - 249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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