2019/12/01 by Valerie Fridland, Tyler Kendall · 12 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Multilingual Education and Policy #Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity #Sociolinguistics #Linguistics #Vowel #Variation (astronomy) #Sociology #Syntax
paper · doi:10.1215/00031283-8032957
published in Publication of the American Dialect Society 104(1), 100-119 (Duke University Press)
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Research Article| December 01 2019 5. On the Uniformity of the Low-Back-Merger Shift in the U.S. West and Beyond Valerie Fridland; Valerie Fridland VALERIE FRIDLAND is professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she also serves as director of graduate studies. As a sociolinguist, her main focus is on varieties of American English. Most of her research, in collaboration with Tyler Kendall, investigates variation in vowel production and vowel perception across the Northern, Southern, and Western regions of the United States. This work explores links between social factors and speech processing. Her teaching areas include general linguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax, and language and gender. She also has a video lecture series entitled “Language and Society” released by The Great Courses. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tyler Kendall Tyler Kendall TYLER KENDALL is associate professor of linguistics at the University of Oregon. Much of his research investigates language variation and change in terms of region and ethnicity. In collaboration with Valerie Fridland, he is engaged in a large-scale project investigating the relationship between vowel production and vowel perception in regional varieties of U.S. English. Much of his wider work focuses on corpora in and computational approaches to sociolinguistics. Along these lines, he is the developer of several sociolinguistic tools and data sets, including the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project (SLAAP), the Vowels.R package, and the Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL). Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (2019) 104 (1): 100–119. 10.1215/00031283-8032957 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Valerie Fridland, Tyler Kendall; 5. On the Uniformity of the Low-Back-Merger Shift in the U.S. West and Beyond. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 December 2019; 104 (1): 100–119. doi: 10.1215/00031283-8032957 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Dialect SocietyThe Publication of the American Dialect Society Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2019 American Dialect Society2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: ARTICLE You do not currently have access to this content.