Northern Arizona vowels

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

doi:10.1215/00031283-4295288

Northern Arizona vowels

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

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	59-82
Number of pages	23
Journal	American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage
Volume	92
Issue number	Supplement (102)1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-4295288
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017

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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).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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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Northern Arizona vowels

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Introduction

Speech in the Western States: Volume III: Understudied Varieties

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