Sociophonetics

Description

Sociophonetics focuses on the relationship between phonetic or phonological form on the one hand, and social and regional factors on the other, working across fields as diverse as sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech sciences and psycholinguistics. Covering methodological, theoretical and computational approaches, this engaging introduction to sociophonetics brings new insights to age-old questions about language variation and change, and to the broader nature of language. It includes examples of important work on speech perception, focusing on vowels and sibilants throughout to provide detailed exemplification. The accompanying website provides a range of online resources, including audio files, data processing scripts and links. Written in an accessible style, this book will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech sciences and psycholinguistics. See book website at http://lingtools.uoregon.edu/sociophonetics/

Tyler Kendall is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. He is the creator of several speech archives, software programs and corpora, including the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project. He is author of the book Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation (2013). Valerie Fridland is Professor at University of Nevada, Reno. Recent publications appear in Journal of Phonetics, Language Variation and Change, and American Speech. She is lead editor of Speech in the Western States Volumes I, II and III, and writes monthly for Psychology Today.