30.3043, Books: Listening to the Past: Hickey (ed.)

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Subject: 30.3043, Books: Listening to the Past: Hickey (ed.)

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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 18:05:38
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: Listening to the Past: Hickey (ed.)

Title: Listening to the Past 
Subtitle: Audio Records of Accents of English 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/listening-past-audio-records-accents-english?format=PB 

Editor: Raymond Hickey

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107660205 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 37.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107660205 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107660205 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 35.00

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=136896

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