37.3189, Books: The Sounds of New Orleans: Serditova (2026)

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Subject: 37.3189, Books: The Sounds of New Orleans: Serditova (2026)

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Date: 02-Oct-2026
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Sounds of New Orleans: Serditova (2026)


Title: The Sounds of New Orleans
Subtitle: A sociophonetic study
Series Title: Varieties of English Around the World   G74
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/veaw.g74

Author(s): Dana Serditova

eBook ISBN:  9789027243256 Pages:  240 Price: Europe EURO 135.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027243256 Pages:  240 Price: U.K. £ 113.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027243256 Pages:  240 Price: U.S. $ 176.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027237798 Pages:  240 Price: Europe EURO 135.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027237798 Pages:  240 Price: Europe EURO 143.10
Hardback ISBN:  9789027237798 Pages:  240 Price: U.K. £ 113.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027237798 Pages:  240 Price: U.S. $ 176.00

Abstract:

The Sounds of New Orleans is the first book-length sociophonetic study
of New Orleans English, one of the most distinctive yet understudied
urban varieties of American English. Based on 114 sociolinguistic
interviews, the book examines three salient Southern features —
/l/-vocalization, the PIN~PEN merger, and /aɪ/-monophthongization
— and explores how they vary across age, gender, ethnicity, education,
and urban versus suburban speech. Combining quantitative sociophonetic
analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, the study situates New Orleans
within the broader dialect landscape of the US South while
highlighting the city’s unique cultural and linguistic history,
including the role of Creole identity. The book also engages
critically with contemporary sociophonetic methodology, comparing
traditional and novel analytical tools. Accessible to researchers and
students in sociolinguistics, phonetics, and dialectology, as well as
readers interested in New Orleans culture, the book offers a detailed
and community-informed account of language variation in the city.

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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