A Pronunciation Analysis of an African American Speaker - A Case Study

• 영문명: A Pronunciation Analysis of an African American Speaker
• 발행기관: 한국사회언어학회
• 저자명: Inhee Jo
• 간행물 정보: 『사회언어학』제15권 1호, 195~237쪽, 전체 43쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.06.30

영문 초록

  This study is an attempt to make a detailed description of the pronunciation features of an African American speaker from Cleveland, Ohio in the U.S.A. Most of the description is devoted to the pronunciation features of the subject"s speech even though some lexical and grammatical aspects will also be noted. The present study shows that despite some apparent pronunciation differences, the subject"s speech and the Standard American English share essentially the same underlying phonemic inventories. Even though no systematic attempt to associate it with any given social or regional dialect is made, the subject"s speech is assumed to belong to the Great Lakes Dialects. The subject"s speech was observed to exhibit some influence of the Northern Cities Shift, a chain vowel shift observed in the Great Lakes Dialects, yet, the influence was sporadic lexically: the vowel shift was not complete enough to posit an altered phonemic system for his speech. Granting this, even the limited findings of the present study imply that the subject"s speech does indeed exhibit influence of the on-going sound change in the region and makes an excellent material for further study of the gradual sociolinguistic sound change.

목차

Abstract
Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Background Information about the Subject
Ⅲ. Interviews
Ⅳ. Questionnaire
Ⅴ. Description of Anonymous Cleveland Idiolect (ACI)
Ⅵ. Vocabulary and Grammar
Ⅶ. Summary and Implications for Further Study
Appendix A: The Story of Arthur the Rat
TRANSCRIPTION
Appendix B: Linguistic Variations : Questionnaire
References

키워드

American Dialects Great Lakes Dialect Gradual Sound Change Cleveland Fieldwork Black English