{"product_id":"new-england-english-large-scale-acoustic-sociophonetics-and-dialectology-9780190625658","title":"New England English: Large-Scale Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology","description":"For nearly 400 years, New England has held an important place in the development of American English, and New England accents are very well known in the popular imagination. While other projects have studied various dialect regions of New England, this is the first large-scale academic\u003cbr\u003eproject since the 1930s to focus specifically on New England English as a whole. In \u003cem\u003eNew England English\u003c\/em\u003e, James N. Stanford presents new variationist sociolinguistic research covering all six New England states, with detailed geographic, acoustic phonetic, and statistical analyses of recently\u003cbr\u003ecollected data from over 1,600 New Englanders. Stanford and his team of Dartmouth students built this dataset over 8 years of face-to-face fieldwork and online audio recordings and questionnaires. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing acoustic phonetics, computational processing, and dialect maps, the book systematically documents major traditional New England dialect features and their current usage in terms of geography, age, gender, ethnicity, social class, and other factors. This dataset is interpreted in terms of\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Labov's outward orientation of the language faculty, dialect levelling, convergence and divergence, and Hub social geometry. The result is a wide-ranging empirical analysis and theoretical overview of this influential English dialect region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James N. Stanford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190625658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames N. Stanford\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Dartmouth College. He studies dialects and language variation using quantitative sociolinguistic methods and acoustic sociophonetics, and is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eLanguage Regard: Methods, Variation and Change \u003c\/em\u003e(2018) and \u003cem\u003eVariation in Indigenous\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMinority Languages\u003c\/em\u003e (2009).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40189590634611,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e4c6253c-f2f2-4d17-87bd-7fe82729c12c.jpg?v=1655816844","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/new-england-english-large-scale-acoustic-sociophonetics-and-dialectology-9780190625658","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}