"Dialect B" on the Mississippi: An acoustic study of /aw/ raising patterns in Greater New Orleans, Louisiana

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dc.contributor.authorBissell, Marieen
dc.contributor.authorCarmichael, Katieen
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-13T20:01:44Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-13T20:01:44Zen
dc.date.issued2022-04-07en
dc.date.updated2023-01-13T17:01:54Zen
dc.description.abstract"Dialect B,"a diphthong raising pattern conditioned by a following obstruent's surface voicing, was first observed by Joos (1942) among Canadian schoolchildren. It has rarely been documented for /ai/ (Berkson, Davis, & Strickler, 2017) and has never been documented for /aw/ in any North American English variety. Phonetic /aw/ raising, which has raised nuclei in words like "out"but not in words like "loud"or "outer,"contrasts with more widely documented phonological /aw/ raising, which has raised nuclei in words like "out"and "outer"but not in words like "loud."In the current study, we examined /aw/ productions from 36 white suburban speakers of Greater New Orleans English, a variety where /aw/ raising before voiceless consonants is a change in progress (Carmichael, 2020b). We classified speakers into three raising patterns: none, phonetic, and phonological. All three raising patterns were present in our data set. This study thus constitutes the first acoustic documentation of a phonetic /aw/ raising pattern produced by a North American English speaker. Additionally, we probe the acoustic implementations of the patterns to analyze phonetic enhancement post-phonologization. These analyses add to descriptions of Greater New Orleans English patterns and build on recent work examining incipient vowel shifts.en
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dc.format.extentPages 1-24en
dc.format.extent24 page(s)en
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dc.identifierARTN 7 (Article number)en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6453en
dc.identifier.eissn1868-6354en
dc.identifier.issn1868-6346en
dc.identifier.issue1en
dc.identifier.orcidCarmichael, Katie [0000-0003-4978-7898]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/113169en
dc.identifier.volume13en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOpen Library of Humanitiesen
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dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectLinguisticsen
dc.subjectNew Orleansen
dc.subjectAccentsen
dc.title"Dialect B" on the Mississippi: An acoustic study of /aw/ raising patterns in Greater New Orleans, Louisianaen
dc.title.serialLaboratory Phonologyen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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dcterms.dateAccepted2022-02-01en
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