[EDLING:651] Re: /r/ vocalization

[Richard Hudson]

Labov has done a lot of work on many different social groups in
Pennsylvania, because that's where he works/worked. Why not ask him if
he did anything on (r)? Have a look at his home page -
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/home.html - and explore a bit via Google.
    Dick

Lynn Goldstein wrote:

>The subjects were not just African American but  from different races,
>occupations (within the stores), ages, genders..... He  asked for where
>something was located that happened to be on the fourth floor( to get the
>final r and the r within the word) and he pretended not to hear so they
>had to repeat fourth floor .
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>edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu on Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 8:37 PM +0000
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>>I'm not sure about Philly in particular, but one of the quintessential
>>studies
>>is Bill Labov's study in NYC 1972, where he went to 3 department stores
>>(Saks -
>>super expensive, Macy's - Average, and Klein's (? I think?) - like
>>K-Mart) and
>>asked clerks where to find certain items, all of which were located on the
>>fourth floor. The idea was to see how often they dropped the R to make it
>>"foath
>>floah" in each location, in attempt to correlate pronunciation with social
>>class. I believe all the subjects were African American (someone correct
>>me if
>>I'm wrong.) It's neither recent nor in Philadelphia, but a good starting
>>point.
>>Here's the reference:
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>>Labov, W. (1972). Sociolingusitic patterns. Philadelphia, University of
>>Pennsylvania Press.
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>>Good luck,
>>Laura
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>>Quoting ellism2 at sas.upenn.edu:
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>>>I am doing some research on African American /r/ vocalization patterns
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>>in
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>>>Philadelphia.  Can anyone recommend a source for the /r/ vocalization
>>>phenomenon? In Philadelphia or anywhere else?
>>>
>>>Thank you
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--
Richard Hudson, FBA,
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics,
University College London
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/home.htm
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