The urbanization of creole phonology

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Foreword xv
5. I. The Social organization of variation and change
6. Dialect typology 3
7. Dialect and style in the speech of upper class Philadelphia 23
8. (ay) Goes to the city. Exploring the expressive use of variation 47
9. Social class and language variation in Bilingual speech communities 69
10. “Why do women do this?” Sex and gender differences in speech 101
11. Interactional conditioning of linguistic heterogeneity 115
12. Peaks and glides in southern states short-a 135
13. Denasalization of the velar nasal in Tokyo Japanese 161
14. II. The linguistic structure of variation and change
15. Variation and drift 173
16. Turning different at the turn of the century 199
17. From and function in linguistic variation 221
18. The history of the ancient Hebrew modal system and Labov’s rule of compensatory structural change 253
19. Phonetic evidence for the evolution of lexical classes 263
20. Phonological rule set complexity in a very large vocabulary word recognition system 289
21. III. African-American varieties of English
22. The origins of variations in Guyanese 311
23. The urbanization of creole phonology 329
24. Copula variability in Jamaican creole and African American vernacular English 357
25. Contraction and deletion in vernacular black English 373
26. Dimensions of a theory of econolinguistics 397
27. William Labov 421
28. Index 429