seeking AAVE/SAE matched guise speech samples

[Dennis R. Preston]

John Laver and Peter Trudgill wrote some time ago on vocal types and
and dialect, John Esling (U. Victoria. Canada) is currently engaged
in such research, but it is little mentioned in "standard" dialect
treatments.

Pragmatic was the not so esoteric word.

dInIs

>  >dInIs writes:
>>  Different voice settings (e.g., creaky voice), different intonation
>>patternms (woefully >understudied in US dialectology), and different "ways
>>of speaking" (various >poragmatic features) may be much more important
>>than vowels and consonants.
>>
>>I leave lexicon, morphology, and syntax out of it, although all play
>>important roles, >but this discussion sees to have focused on phonology.
>>~~~~~~~~~~
>I used to assume that vocal timbre was largely physically determined, but
>have come to believe that the learned component may be at least as great  &
>perhaps greater. (Part of my evidence for this is the high incidence of of
>a sort of chipmunky voice in the post-tv generation, that I attribute to a
>lot of exposure to animated cartoons & similar vocal models.)  That being
>so (she said, glibly), I wonder to what extent it is considered to be a
>part of dialect by the scholars in this field.
>A. Murie
>Having sought in vain for a definition of the Obviously Recondite term
>"poragmatic," I'm beginning to suspect it is a typo....?

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Dennis R. Preston
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