William A Kretzschmar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 224510 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William A Kretzschmar |
| NOMBRES | William A |
| APELLIDO | Kretzschmar |
| FIRMA | KRETZSCHMAR W A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7173-5624 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Complex Natural Systems for Language
In this paper we want to show how complex systems theory can inform the theoretical development in natural phonology. This development leads us to propose complex natural systems modelling for language. We explain how complex systems help us understand both theoretical concepts from natural phonology, for example the concept of preference, as well as variation in language data, for example in English vowel realizations and Polish consonant cluste…
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
Exploring Linguistic Science
Exploring Linguistic Science introduces students to the basic principles of complexity theory and then applies these principles to the scientific study of language. It demonstrates how, at every level of linguistic study, we find evidence of language as a complex system. Designed for undergraduate courses in language and linguistics, this essential textbook brings cutting-edge concepts to bear on the traditional components of general introduction…
A Suitable End
Book Review| August 01 2015 A Suitable End Principles of Linguistic Change Volume 3, Cognitive and Cultural Factors. By Labov, William. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xx + 182. ISBN 978-1-4051-1214-7; $117.95 (pbk $52.95; ebk $42.99) William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2015) 90 (3): 377–389. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3324542 Cite Ico…
Lee Arnold Pederson (1930–2015)
Obituary for Lee Pederson
Variation in the Traditional Vowels of the Eastern States
In contrast to Hans Kurath and Raven McDavid's traditional analysis of vowel variation presented in their 1961 Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States, which was a largely intuitive, qualitative treatment of the evidence that focused on patterns of regional contrast, this study focuses on the picture of quantitative variation in American English vowels along the North Midland and South Midland border as represented in data from the Lingui…
Last Words from a Gentleman and a Scholar
Book Review| February 01 2012 Last Words from a Gentleman and a Scholar Speaking American: A History of English in the United States By Bailey, Richard W. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xviii + 207. ISBN 978-0-19-517934-7; $27.95 William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2012) 87 (1): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1599986 Views Icon V…
Language Variation and Complex Systems
Modern notions of language and linguistics embody a paradox, that language appears to be systematic and yet, at the same time, we know it to be variable. The paradox results when we attempt to apply rule-bound systems, the “axiom of categoricity,” to language in use, to speech as people actually use it. Taken together, the basic elements of speech correspond to what has been called a “complex system” in sciences ranging from physics to ecology to…
Neural networks and the linguistics of speech
Traditional ideas of dialect represent an essentially aesthetic view, in which evidence from language variation is perceived according to social conventions about language and geography. Objective perception (aesthetics in the philosophical sense) of the same speech evidence can lead to quite different generalisations about language in use. The linguistics of speech (i.e., what people actually say and write to and for each other) must be distingu…
Public and academic understandings about language
The Ebonics controversy revealed surprising public rejection of the ideas of academic linguists. The intellectual history of the situation provides a reasonable explanation. Linguists lack consensus themselves, while the public consensus includes inherent contradictions. Academic and public ideas of language came into conflict over Ebonics in part because linguists attempted to impose their own ideas on the public, in part because of confusion ov…
The Philadelphia Story
Review Article| August 01 2005 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY: Principles of Linguistic Change Volume 2, Social Factors By William Labov Language in Society 29 Oxford: Basil Blackwell,2001. Pp. xviii + 572. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2005) 80 (3): 321–330. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-80-3-321 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
Linguistic Atlases of the United States and Canada
Research Article| December 01 2003 LINGUISTIC ATLASES OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (2003) 88 (1): 25–48. https://doi.org/10.1215/-88-1-25 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR; LINGUISTIC ATLASES OF THE UN…
Mapping Southern English
Research Article| May 01 2003 MAPPING SOUTHERN ENGLISH WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (2): 130–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-2-130 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
Distributional Foundations for a Theory of Language Change
Postmodern Dialectology
Research Article| August 01 2000 POSTMODERN DIALECTOLOGY WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 235–237. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-235 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR; POSTMODERN DIALECTOLOGY. American Speech 1 August 2000; 75 (3): 235–237. d…
Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data
Dimensions of Variation in American English Vocabulary
Vocabulary varies in more than just the single dimension of the list of words that appears in typical desk-size dictionaries. Attention to the multidimensional nature of lexical variation can contribute in important ways to our understanding of language, and more particularly to the situation of a language in its particular culture. The vocabulary of AmE has less to do with supposedly authoritative wordlists than it does with the the cultural, hi…
A Glass Half Empty, a Glass Half Full
Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States
Who uses skeeter hawk, snake doctor, and dragonfly to refer to the same insect? Who says gum band instead of rubber band? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), a survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York State to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelv…
Dialectology and sociolinguistics
Using Computers in Dialect Research
Isoglosses and Predictive Modeling
THE PRACTICE OF DRAWING ISOGLOSSES to chart areal variation has come in for good amount of criticism that, I would suggest, has sometimes been ill founded because of basic misconception of what isoglosses indicate. Isoglosses, and the maps on which they are charted, are conceptual models, not reproductions of reality. Just because some criticisms have been flawed, however, does not excuse those who have drawn isoglosses without paying due attenti…
Adaptation and anweald in the Old English Orosius
After Janet Bately's several articles and her recent edition of the Old English Orosius there is little need to analyse further what the Anglo-Saxon translator did to his source. The translator made substantial cuts in the Latin text: he deleted much of Orosius's commentary on the events he narrated, made a number of minor, probably accidental, omissions, rather surprisingly left out some details which should have interested the Anglo-Saxon audie…
Miscommunicating at the Family Practice Center
VII. Computer Needs
Research Article| December 01 1984 VII. Computer Needs William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1984) 71 (1): 71–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/-71-1-71 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation William A. Kretzschmar; VII. Computer Needs. Publication of the American …
Isoglosses and Predictive Modeling
THE PRACTICE OF DRAWING ISOGLOSSES to chart areal variation has come in for good amount of criticism that, I would suggest, has sometimes been ill founded because of basic misconception of what isoglosses indicate. Isoglosses, and the maps on which they are charted, are conceptual models, not reproductions of reality. Just because some criticisms have been flawed, however, does not excuse those who have drawn isoglosses without paying due attenti…
Language Variation and Complex Systems
Modern notions of language and linguistics embody a paradox, that language appears to be systematic and yet, at the same time, we know it to be variable. The paradox results when we attempt to apply rule-bound systems, the “axiom of categoricity,” to language in use, to speech as people actually use it. Taken together, the basic elements of speech correspond to what has been called a “complex system” in sciences ranging from physics to ecology to…
Mapping Southern English
Research Article| May 01 2003 MAPPING SOUTHERN ENGLISH WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (2): 130–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-2-130 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
Distributional Foundations for a Theory of Language Change
Variation in the Traditional Vowels of the Eastern States
In contrast to Hans Kurath and Raven McDavid's traditional analysis of vowel variation presented in their 1961 Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States, which was a largely intuitive, qualitative treatment of the evidence that focused on patterns of regional contrast, this study focuses on the picture of quantitative variation in American English vowels along the North Midland and South Midland border as represented in data from the Lingui…
Neural networks and the linguistics of speech
Traditional ideas of dialect represent an essentially aesthetic view, in which evidence from language variation is perceived according to social conventions about language and geography. Objective perception (aesthetics in the philosophical sense) of the same speech evidence can lead to quite different generalisations about language in use. The linguistics of speech (i.e., what people actually say and write to and for each other) must be distingu…
A Glass Half Empty, a Glass Half Full
Postmodern Dialectology
Research Article| August 01 2000 POSTMODERN DIALECTOLOGY WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 235–237. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-235 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR; POSTMODERN DIALECTOLOGY. American Speech 1 August 2000; 75 (3): 235–237. d…
Dialectology and sociolinguistics
Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking Glass
VII. Computer Needs
Research Article| December 01 1984 VII. Computer Needs William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1984) 71 (1): 71–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/-71-1-71 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation William A. Kretzschmar; VII. Computer Needs. Publication of the American …
Miscommunicating at the Family Practice Center
Adaptation and anweald in the Old English Orosius
After Janet Bately's several articles and her recent edition of the Old English Orosius there is little need to analyse further what the Anglo-Saxon translator did to his source. The translator made substantial cuts in the Latin text: he deleted much of Orosius's commentary on the events he narrated, made a number of minor, probably accidental, omissions, rather surprisingly left out some details which should have interested the Anglo-Saxon audie…
Using Computers in Dialect Research
Isoglosses and Predictive Modeling
THE PRACTICE OF DRAWING ISOGLOSSES to chart areal variation has come in for good amount of criticism that, I would suggest, has sometimes been ill founded because of basic misconception of what isoglosses indicate. Isoglosses, and the maps on which they are charted, are conceptual models, not reproductions of reality. Just because some criticisms have been flawed, however, does not excuse those who have drawn isoglosses without paying due attenti…
Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States
Who uses skeeter hawk, snake doctor, and dragonfly to refer to the same insect? Who says gum band instead of rubber band? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), a survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York State to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelv…
Dialectology and sociolinguistics
Dimensions of Variation in American English Vocabulary
Vocabulary varies in more than just the single dimension of the list of words that appears in typical desk-size dictionaries. Attention to the multidimensional nature of lexical variation can contribute in important ways to our understanding of language, and more particularly to the situation of a language in its particular culture. The vocabulary of AmE has less to do with supposedly authoritative wordlists than it does with the the cultural, hi…
A Glass Half Empty, a Glass Half Full
Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data
Postmodern Dialectology
Research Article| August 01 2000 POSTMODERN DIALECTOLOGY WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 235–237. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-235 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR; POSTMODERN DIALECTOLOGY. American Speech 1 August 2000; 75 (3): 235–237. d…
Linguistic Atlases of the United States and Canada
Research Article| December 01 2003 LINGUISTIC ATLASES OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (2003) 88 (1): 25–48. https://doi.org/10.1215/-88-1-25 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR; LINGUISTIC ATLASES OF THE UN…
Mapping Southern English
Research Article| May 01 2003 MAPPING SOUTHERN ENGLISH WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (2): 130–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-2-130 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
Distributional Foundations for a Theory of Language Change
The Philadelphia Story
Review Article| August 01 2005 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY: Principles of Linguistic Change Volume 2, Social Factors By William Labov Language in Society 29 Oxford: Basil Blackwell,2001. Pp. xviii + 572. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2005) 80 (3): 321–330. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-80-3-321 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
Neural networks and the linguistics of speech
Traditional ideas of dialect represent an essentially aesthetic view, in which evidence from language variation is perceived according to social conventions about language and geography. Objective perception (aesthetics in the philosophical sense) of the same speech evidence can lead to quite different generalisations about language in use. The linguistics of speech (i.e., what people actually say and write to and for each other) must be distingu…
Public and academic understandings about language
The Ebonics controversy revealed surprising public rejection of the ideas of academic linguists. The intellectual history of the situation provides a reasonable explanation. Linguists lack consensus themselves, while the public consensus includes inherent contradictions. Academic and public ideas of language came into conflict over Ebonics in part because linguists attempted to impose their own ideas on the public, in part because of confusion ov…
Language Variation and Complex Systems
Modern notions of language and linguistics embody a paradox, that language appears to be systematic and yet, at the same time, we know it to be variable. The paradox results when we attempt to apply rule-bound systems, the “axiom of categoricity,” to language in use, to speech as people actually use it. Taken together, the basic elements of speech correspond to what has been called a “complex system” in sciences ranging from physics to ecology to…
Variation in the Traditional Vowels of the Eastern States
In contrast to Hans Kurath and Raven McDavid's traditional analysis of vowel variation presented in their 1961 Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States, which was a largely intuitive, qualitative treatment of the evidence that focused on patterns of regional contrast, this study focuses on the picture of quantitative variation in American English vowels along the North Midland and South Midland border as represented in data from the Lingui…
Last Words from a Gentleman and a Scholar
Book Review| February 01 2012 Last Words from a Gentleman and a Scholar Speaking American: A History of English in the United States By Bailey, Richard W. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xviii + 207. ISBN 978-0-19-517934-7; $27.95 William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2012) 87 (1): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1599986 Views Icon V…
A Suitable End
Book Review| August 01 2015 A Suitable End Principles of Linguistic Change Volume 3, Cognitive and Cultural Factors. By Labov, William. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xx + 182. ISBN 978-1-4051-1214-7; $117.95 (pbk $52.95; ebk $42.99) William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2015) 90 (3): 377–389. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3324542 Cite Ico…
Lee Arnold Pederson (1930–2015)
Obituary for Lee Pederson
Exploring Linguistic Science
Exploring Linguistic Science introduces students to the basic principles of complexity theory and then applies these principles to the scientific study of language. It demonstrates how, at every level of linguistic study, we find evidence of language as a complex system. Designed for undergraduate courses in language and linguistics, this essential textbook brings cutting-edge concepts to bear on the traditional components of general introduction…
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 obras) · Linguistics (14 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · History (9 obras) · History (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Citation (5 obras)