Listening to the Past (Studies in English Language)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 5/30/2019
EAN 9781107660205, ISBN10: 1107660203
Paperback, 606 pages, 23 x 15.3 x 3.5 cm
Language: English
Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This book is the first to bring together a team of globally recognised scholars to document and analyse these early recordings in a single volume. Looking at examples of regional varieties of English from England, Scotland, Ireland, the USA, Canada and other anglophone countries, the volume explores both standard and vernacular varieties, and demonstrates how accents of English have changed between the late nineteenth century and the present day. The socio-phonetic examinations of the recordings will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, the history of the English language, language variation and change, phonetics, and phonology.
1. Analysing early audio recordings Raymond Hickey
2. British Library sound recordings of vernacular speech Jonathan Robinson
3. Twentieth-century received pronunciation
prevocalic /r/ Anne Fabricius
4. Twentieth-century received pronunciation
stop articulation Raymond Hickey
5. Early London English Paul Kerswill and Eivind Torgersen
6. Merseyside Kevin Watson and Lynn Clark
7. Scotland - Glasgow and the Central Belt Jane Stuart-Smith and Eleanor Lawson
8. Early recordings of Irish English Raymond Hickey
9. Evidence of American regional dialects in early recordings Matthew J. Gordon and Christopher Strelluf
10. New England Daniel Ezra Johnson and David Durian
11. Upper Midwestern English Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy and Joseph Salmons
12. Western United States Valerie Fridland and Tyler Kendall
13. Analysis of the ex-slave recordings Erik R. Thomas
14. Archival data on earlier Canadian English Charles Boberg
15. Canadian raising in Newfoundland? Sandra Clarke, Paul De Decker and Gerard Van Herk
16. The Caribbean Shelome Gooden and Kathy-Ann Drayton
17. West Africa Magnus Huber
18. Earlier South Africa English Ian Bekker
19. Tristan da Cunha Daniel Schreier
20. Australia Felicity Cox
21. Early New Zealand English
the closing diphthongs Márton Sóskuthy, Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan, Katie Drager and Paul Foulkes
22. The development of recording technology Raymond Hickey.