Northern Arizona vowels

Lauren Hall-Lew, Mirjam Eiswirth, Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, William Cotter

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Abstract

Arizona’s settlement history is like that of the other Southwestern states and California, with early indigenous populations coming into contact first with Spanish-speaking settlers and later with non-Hispanic European American migrants coming from the South, East, and Midwest, and later still from California (Sheridan 1995, 154). Arizona (like New Mexico) is also situated in an interesting dialectological position. The speech of Arizonans has likely been influenced by both the well-documented vocalic patterns of the Southern United States (e.g., Feagin 2003) and the vocalic mergers and other changes often collectively referred to as the California Vowel Shift (Eckert 2004). In the present chapter, we consider both these sources of influence and sketch out a basic foundation for understanding vowel variation in the state of Arizona.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)59-82
Number of pages23
JournalAmerican Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage
Volume92
Issue numberSupplement (102)1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2017

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • phonetics
  • sociophonetics
  • sociolinguistics
  • variation
  • vowels
  • dialectology
  • US English
  • English Language
  • Arizona
  • sound change

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  • Self-recordings & oral histories

    Barnes, S. & Hall-Lew, L., 7 Jun 2022, (Accepted/In press) Dimensions of Linguistic Variation. Yaeger-Dror, M., Cieri, C. & Drager, K. (eds.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 25 p.

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  • Introduction

    Fridland, V., Wassink, A., Hall-Lew, L. & Kendall, T., 1 Dec 2020, Speech in the Western States: Volume III: Understudied Varieties. Fridland, V., Beckford Wassink, A., Hall-Lew, L. & Kendall, T. (eds.). Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, p. 1-10 10 p. (Publication of the American Dialect Society; vol. 105, no. 1).

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  • Speech in the Western States: Volume III: Understudied Varieties

    Fridland, V., Wassink, A., Hall-Lew, L. & Kendall, T., 19 Nov 2020, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 128 p. (Proceedings of the American Dialect Society; vol. 103)

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