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goose-fronting in Received Pronunciation across time: A trend study
- The current study analyzes the trajectory of the goose vowel in Received Pronunciation (RP) over ten decades (1920s-2010s). Recordings of eighty-seven RP speakers were transcribed in ELAN, and vowel tokens were extracted by FAVE, measuring F1 and F2 values at the midpoint. Showing the life-cycle of a sound change from start to (almost) completion, the results confirm that goose-fronting has been an active sound change for many decades in RP, with F2 starting to increase in the middle of the twentieth century and accelerated changes in the 1970s and the 2010s. We observe similar predictor strengths of linguistic factors as in previous studies. The results are interpreted in light of the social changes in the social composition of the RP group in the second part of the twentieth century, involving increased dialect contact.
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| Author: | Sandra Jansen, Jose A. Mompean |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-109569 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954394523000017 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8021 |
| Parent Title (English): | Language Variation and Change |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Place of publication: | Cambridge |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/04/12 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2023/03/01 |
| Release Date: | 2024/04/08 |
| Tag: | Received Pronunciation; goose-fronting; longitudinal sound change; social change |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| First Page: | 55 |
| Last Page: | 77 |
| Faculties: | Philosophische Fakultät |
| Collections: | weitere DFG-förderfähige Artikel |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 International |