The Socio-Economic Significance of Four Phonetic Characteristics in North American English

Phonological and Phonetic Characteristics of African American Vernacular English

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and, more generally, African American English (AAE) are the most heavily studied group of dialects in North American English. Much of the enquiry has focused on morphosyntactic variation, but a significant amount has dealt with phonological and phonetic variables. Linguistic variables that can set AAE off from local European American varieties (EAE) in...

The ( North ) American English

study of cohesive devices in the textbook of english for the students of apsychology by rastegarpour

this study investigates the cohesive devices used in the textbook of english for the students of psychology. the research questions and hypotheses in the present study are based on what frequency and distribution of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices are. then, to answer the questions all grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading comprehension passages from 6 units of 21units th...

The Phonetic Patterning of Spontaneous American English Discourse

Statistical analysis of a manually annotated, 45-minute subset of the SWITCHBOARD corpus indicates that pronunciation variation observed in spontaneous American English discourse is highly structured at the level of the syllable, particularly when prosodic stress accent (i.e., syllable prominence) is taken into account. The pattern of segmental substitutions and deletions observed are largely a...

The phonetic context of American English flapping: quantitative evidence.

The phonetic context in which word-medial flaps occur (in contrast to [th]) in American English is explored. The analysis focuses on stress placement, following phone, and syllabification. In Experiment 1, subjects provided their preference for [th] or [[symbol: see text]] in bisyllabic nonce words. Consistent with previous studies, flaps were preferred before stressless syllables and [th] befo...