The meaning of style
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In his groundbreaking study of Martha’s Vineyard, William Labov (Labov 1963) showed that phonological variables can take on very textured local meanings. The use of a raised nucleus in /ay/, commonly referred to as “Canadian Raising” is recognized all along the Atlantic coast as characteristic of various island dialects (Wolfram and Schilling-Estes 1996). In recent generations, the nucleus of this diphthong has been lowering to [a], presumably under the influence of the lowered variant that predominates in the mainland US and that characterizes mainstream US English. Labov’s study found that the height of this nucleus was functioning as a symbolic resource in the struggle over the fate of the island. In the process, the height of the nucleus in /ay/ had taken on quite specific local meaning. It is on the nature of such meaning, and the mechanisms by which it is constructed, that I wish to focus in the following pages.
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