New England English large-scale acoustic sociophonetics and dialectology / James N. Stanford.

Author/creator Stanford, James N.
Other author Oxford University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Descriptionxii, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Contents Preface -- Part I: Setting the stage: 1. Introduction -- 2. The linguistic variables -- 3. Early founders and the founder effect -- Part II: Bird's eye view: The Mechanical Turk Online Project: 4. Results from the Mechanical Turk Online audio recordings -- 5. Results from the Mechanical Turk Online written questionnaires -- Part III: Exploring the hub: Fieldwork results from Eastern Massachusetts: 6. fieldwork results from Eastern Massachusetts -- 7. Focus on subgroups within the hub -- Part IV: Exploring northern New England: Fieldwork results: 8. Fieldwork results from northeastern New England -- 9. Focus on subgroups of northern New England -- Part V: Summary and discussion: 10. Summary of empirical results -- 11. Outward orientation, leveling, and hub social geometry -- Appendix A: Primary field interview materials -- Appendix B: Field interview materials for the New Hampshire/Vermont border study -- Appendix C: The Mechanical Turk self-reporting questionnaire -- Appendix D: The mechanical Turk audio survey -- Appendix E: Information about the publicly available database: Dartmouth New england English Database (DNEED) -- References.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 325-344) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019017460
ISBN9780190625658 (hardback)
ISBN9780190625665 (updf)
ISBN9780190625672 (epub)
ISBN9780190625689 (oso)