The Completion of a Sound Change in California English

Lauren Hall-Lew

The Completion of a Sound Change in California English

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract / Description of output

The fronting of the nucleus of the high back vowel /u/, as in the keyword GOOSE [21], is a sound change in progress that has been widely documented throughout the English-speaking world. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the GOOSE-fronting among a sample of 30 speakers from San Francisco, California, stratified according to age, gender, and ethnicity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of ICPhS XVII
Place of Publication	Hong Kong
Publisher	The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Pages	807-810
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

vowel fronting
sound change
age
ethnicity
English

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The Completion of a Sound Change in California English
© Hall-Lew, L. (2011). The Completion of a Sound Change in California English. In Proceedings of ICPhS XVII. (pp. 807-810). Hong Kong: The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
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http://www.icphs2011.hk/ICPHS_CongressProceedings.htm

2 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2 Paper
2 Article

Changes from below and from above
Hall-Lew, L., 11 Aug 2023, (Accepted/In press) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics. Aldridge, E., Breitbarth, A., Kiss, K. É., Ledgeway, A., Simonenko, A. & Salmons, J. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, (Companions).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Between California and the Pacific Northwest: The front lax vowels in San Francisco english
Cardoso, A., Hall-Lew, L., Kementchedjhieva, Y. & Purse, R., 10 Jan 2017, In: American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage. 91, Supplement (101)1, p. 33-54
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
File
An Evaluation of Sociolinguistic Elicitation Methods
Boyd, Z., Elliott, Z., Fruehwald, J., Hall-Lew, L. & Lawrence, D., 2015. 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

Open Access
File

2 Invited talk

When does a (sound) change stop progressing?
Lauren Hall-Lew (Speaker)
3 Nov 2017
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
The Sociophonetics of Ethnicity
Lauren Hall-Lew (Speaker)
10 May 2017
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

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Abstract / Description of output

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Access to Document

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Research output

Changes from below and from above

Between California and the Pacific Northwest: The front lax vowels in San Francisco english

An Evaluation of Sociolinguistic Elicitation Methods

Activities

When does a (sound) change stop progressing?

The Sociophonetics of Ethnicity

Cite this