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A pioneering 20-year longitudinal study of 67 African American children that illuminates how and why language changes in childhood.
A guide to principles and methods for the management, archiving, sharing, and citing of linguistic research data, especially digital data. "Doing language science" depends on collecting, transcribing, annotating, analyzing, storing, and sharing linguistic research data. This volume offers a guide to linguistic data management, engaging with current trends toward the transformation of linguistics into a more data-driven and reproducible scientific endeavor. It offers both principles and methods, presenting the conceptual foundations of linguistic data management and a series of case studies, each of which demonstrates a concrete application of abstract principles in a current practice. In par...
Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914
Introduction : "I expected the streets to be paved with gold": Anacostia and Washington, DC in the Black Imagination -- Racializing Gentrification through Discourse -- Repositioning Anacostia : Circulating Insider Discourses to Counteract Outsider Views -- "They Ain't Make Improvements for Us" : Place-making with African American Language -- Race, Geography, and Agency East of the River -- Conclusion : Bridging the River.
A concise introduction to sociophonetics, this book links research in sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech sciences, and psycholinguistics.
The goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses of both traditional and contemporary work on language use in African American communities in a broad collective. The Handbook offers a survey of language and its uses in African American communities from a wide range of contexts organized into seven sections: Origins and Historical Perspectives; Lects and Variation; Structure and Description; Child Language Acquisition and Development; Education; Language in Society; and Language and Identity. It is a handbook of research on African American Language (AAL) and, as such, provides a variety of scholarly perspectives that may not ali...
This book provides a fascinating account of the psycholinguistic and social factors behind variation in speech timing in US English. With detailed discussions of its methods and data, it also acts as a valuable model for conducting corpus (socio)phonetic research.