Object's details: Exploring the Status of Voiceless Labiovelar Fricative /ʍ/ in Contemporary American English

Provider:Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Description

Title:
Exploring the Status of Voiceless Labiovelar Fricative /ʍ/ in Contemporary American English
Creator:
Walczak, Dominika
Contributor:
Społeczna Akademia Nauk;
dominika.walczak@icloud.com
Description:
The study attempts to investigate the current status of the voiceless labiovelar fricative /ʍ/ in American English with reference to selected sociolinguistic variables, such as age, regional background, formality of the speech and prestige. The study comprises 17 subjects and 34 recordings of their speech – two recordings of a different level of formality per each speaker. All of the analyzed recordings are available online. The analysis focuses on wh-words, such as e.g. why, while, whale or white. In the first part of the study, the number of wh-context words in each speech is juxtaposed with the actual production of the researched variable. The second part of the study concentrates on the comparison of the obtained qualitative data with selected social variables. The results of the study may not only broaden the understanding of the voiceless labiovelar fricative use in American English but may also have pedagogical implications to whether the variable should be included in the phonetic courses on American English.
Object availability:
free access
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Date:
2025.01.15;
2024.12.31
Type:
Article
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Relation:
Research in Language;1;
22
Subject:
voiceless labiovelar fricative;
social variables;
age;
formality;
regionality;
American English;
prestige
Identifier:
1731-7533;
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/54213 ;
10.18778/1731-7533.22.1.02
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Similar objects

Exploring the Status of Voiceless Labiovelar Fricative /ʍ/ in Contemporary American English

Creator:Walczak, Dominika

Date:2025.01.15 | 2024.12.31

Type:image

The East Anglian Dialect of English in the World

Creator:Trudgill, Peter

Date:2021.12.01

Type:other

Jeden naród – jeden język? Ruch English-Only w kontekście wcześniejszych prób uregulowania statusu języka angielskiego w Stanach Zjednoczonych

Creator:Kaganiec-Kamieńska, Anna

Date:2022.02.18

Type:text

A Corpus-Based, Pilot Study of Lexical Stress Variation in American English

Creator:Henderson, Alice

Date:2015.06.12 | 2010.10.19

Type:other

Lexical Borrowing in the Light of Digital Resources: Nyet as a Case Study

Creator:Podhajecka, Mirosława

Date:2021.12.01

Type:other

Peaceful coexistence?Ideology in the representation of Scots and North American languages in Late Modern literature

Creator:Dossena, Marina

Type:text

Can I use it?:seek permission

Assessing the validity of the mid-nineteenth-century literary portrayal of Southern American English in Fisher’s River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters by “Skitt, who was raised thar”:A case of past tense be forms

Creator:Dylewski, Radosław | Witt, Zuzanna

Type:text

Can I use it?:seek permission

The prestige of the teaching profession in the perception of teachers and former teachers

Creator:Smak, Magdalena | Walczak, Dominika

Date:2017.12.31 | 2017

Type:other

Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych

Object's details: Exploring the Status of Voiceless Labiovelar Fricative /ʍ/ in Contemporary American English

Description

Similar objects