Abstract
Older speakers from all villages, who lived in the area when the mines were open, often produce the localised variant, especially in speech produced during conversation about the locally-resonant mining topic and most frequently in communities closest to the location with which the form is associated. Conversely, speakers born since the loss of mining hardly produce the local form in any community or conversational context. Exploring conversational topic provides evidence for the connections between shifting social contexts and sound change, specifically that otherwise recessive features persist in speech concerning traditional, locally-relevant topics related to speakers’ identities.
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Language Variation and Change |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 5 Jun 2019 |
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Vowel change across time, space and conversational topic : the use of localised features in former mining communities. / Devlin, Thomas; French, Peter; Llamas, Carmen.
In: Language Variation and Change, 05.06.2019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Vowel change across time, space and conversational topic
T2 - Language Variation and Change
AU - Devlin, Thomas
AU - French, Peter
AU - Llamas, Carmen
PY - 2019/6/5
Y1 - 2019/6/5
N2 - MOUTH vowel variation is explored across male speakers from four ex-mining communities in North East England. The paper presents analysis of: the geographical distribution across the communities of a variant of the vowel which is highly localised to a nearby location; age-correlated variation to infer change in progress away from localised form usage; and the effect on usage of traditional, locally-relevant conversational topics.Older speakers from all villages, who lived in the area when the mines were open, often produce the localised variant, especially in speech produced during conversation about the locally-resonant mining topic and most frequently in communities closest to the location with which the form is associated. Conversely, speakers born since the loss of mining hardly produce the local form in any community or conversational context. Exploring conversational topic provides evidence for the connections between shifting social contexts and sound change, specifically that otherwise recessive features persist in speech concerning traditional, locally-relevant topics related to speakers’ identities.
AB - MOUTH vowel variation is explored across male speakers from four ex-mining communities in North East England. The paper presents analysis of: the geographical distribution across the communities of a variant of the vowel which is highly localised to a nearby location; age-correlated variation to infer change in progress away from localised form usage; and the effect on usage of traditional, locally-relevant conversational topics.Older speakers from all villages, who lived in the area when the mines were open, often produce the localised variant, especially in speech produced during conversation about the locally-resonant mining topic and most frequently in communities closest to the location with which the form is associated. Conversely, speakers born since the loss of mining hardly produce the local form in any community or conversational context. Exploring conversational topic provides evidence for the connections between shifting social contexts and sound change, specifically that otherwise recessive features persist in speech concerning traditional, locally-relevant topics related to speakers’ identities.
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-variation-and-change
M3 - Article
JO - Language Variation and Change
JF - Language Variation and Change
SN - 0954-3945
ER -