Keywords

Southern vowel variation, forced alignment analysis, sociodemographic vowel differences

Abstract

Abstract:

We have extracted c. 2 million tokens of vowels from a rigorous sample of 63 speakers across the American South in an NSF-funded project for forced alignment and automatic formant extraction. We show how our vowel measurements across the whole region differ from national mean F1/F2 scores. We contrast men and women, and African Americans and non- African Americans, within the Southern region.

Original Publication Citation

William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Margaret E. L. Renwick, Joseph A. Stanley, Katie Kuiper, Lisa Lipani, Michael Olsen, & Rachel Olsen. “The View of Southern Vowels from Large-Scale Data.” Poster presentation at the American Dialect Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. January 2–5, 2020.

Document Type

Poster

Publication Date

2020

Publisher

American Dialect Society Annual Meeting

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics

University Standing at Time of Publication

Assistant Professor

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Linguistics Commons

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