Rebecca Roeder
Biographic Data
| ID | 111285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Roeder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Roeder |
| SIGNATURE | ROEDER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5553-2838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Phonological mergers have systemic phonetic consequences
This paper provides a unified phonologically motivated explanation for the movement of trap , dress , and kit following the low-back merger in North American English (i.e., the Canadian Shift, California Shift, Low Back Merger Shift, Third Shift, etc.). The explanation puts forth that the three-way merger of lot , palm , and thought results in the loss of the [+Front] feature specification for trap , opening the door for dispersion focalization t…
Language and Life in Appalachia
Review Article| May 01 2022 Language and Life in Appalachia Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Hazen, Kirk. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2020. Pp. xxiv + 203. ISBN 978-1-949199-54-3; $99.99 (pbk & ebk $29.99) Rebecca V. Roeder Rebecca V. Roeder University of North Carolina at Charlotte rebecca v. roeder is an associate professor of linguistics in the Department of English at the University of North Carolin…
The changing face of dixie
The functional distribution of Spanish and English on signage in a nascent Latino area of a Southern U.S. city is examined. • A frame analytic approach is used to analyze the civic, commercial, and community orientations evident in the signage. • Quantitative distributional results ground the qualitative findings. • Findings reflect cultural heterogeneity and translocal orientation
The Canadian Shift in two Ontario cities
The Canadian Shift, a change-in-progress that is affecting the lax vowel subsystem of Canadian English, has been found to be active in a number of cities across Canada. Very little is known about the geolinguistic history and spread of the shift, however. Combining apparent time data from Thunder Bay, Ontario, with a comparison of lax vowel pronunciation in the speech of young people from both Thunder Bay and Toronto, the current study presents e…
The Canadian Shift in Toronto
This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian Shift in mainstream Toronto English. In contrast with some previous findings, the Toronto data suggest that for the last 70 years or more the shift has not affected the high front lax vowel (i). We observe that the movement of the nonhigh front lax vowels (ε) and (æ) involves both lowering and retraction in Toronto English, although retraction is the…
Northern Cities Mexican American English
This article investigates the influence of the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) on the production and perception of English vowels by Mexican Americans in Lansing, Michigan. Findings indicate full accommodation to local mainstream norms with respect to all NCS vowels except /æ/, which displays unique patterning both prenasally and in other environments. The evidence also reveals that young women in Lansing, both Anglo and Mexican American, have adopte…
Variation in the English definite article
This paper provides a sociolinguistic analysis of variation in the English definite article, a.k.a. definite article reduction (DAR), in the city of York, northeast Yorkshire, England. Embedding the analysis in historical, dialectological and contemporary studies of this phenomenon, the findings uncover a rich system of variability between the standard forms as well as reduced and zero variants. These are involved in a system of multicausal const…
Northern Cities Mexican American English
This article investigates the influence of the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) on the production and perception of English vowels by Mexican Americans in Lansing, Michigan. Findings indicate full accommodation to local mainstream norms with respect to all NCS vowels except /æ/, which displays unique patterning both prenasally and in other environments. The evidence also reveals that young women in Lansing, both Anglo and Mexican American, have adopte…
Variation in the English definite article
This paper provides a sociolinguistic analysis of variation in the English definite article, a.k.a. definite article reduction (DAR), in the city of York, northeast Yorkshire, England. Embedding the analysis in historical, dialectological and contemporary studies of this phenomenon, the findings uncover a rich system of variability between the standard forms as well as reduced and zero variants. These are involved in a system of multicausal const…
The Canadian Shift in two Ontario cities
The Canadian Shift, a change-in-progress that is affecting the lax vowel subsystem of Canadian English, has been found to be active in a number of cities across Canada. Very little is known about the geolinguistic history and spread of the shift, however. Combining apparent time data from Thunder Bay, Ontario, with a comparison of lax vowel pronunciation in the speech of young people from both Thunder Bay and Toronto, the current study presents e…
Phonological mergers have systemic phonetic consequences
This paper provides a unified phonologically motivated explanation for the movement of trap , dress , and kit following the low-back merger in North American English (i.e., the Canadian Shift, California Shift, Low Back Merger Shift, Third Shift, etc.). The explanation puts forth that the three-way merger of lot , palm , and thought results in the loss of the [+Front] feature specification for trap , opening the door for dispersion focalization t…
Variation in the English definite article
This paper provides a sociolinguistic analysis of variation in the English definite article, a.k.a. definite article reduction (DAR), in the city of York, northeast Yorkshire, England. Embedding the analysis in historical, dialectological and contemporary studies of this phenomenon, the findings uncover a rich system of variability between the standard forms as well as reduced and zero variants. These are involved in a system of multicausal const…
The Canadian Shift in Toronto
This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian Shift in mainstream Toronto English. In contrast with some previous findings, the Toronto data suggest that for the last 70 years or more the shift has not affected the high front lax vowel (i). We observe that the movement of the nonhigh front lax vowels (ε) and (æ) involves both lowering and retraction in Toronto English, although retraction is the…
Northern Cities Mexican American English
This article investigates the influence of the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) on the production and perception of English vowels by Mexican Americans in Lansing, Michigan. Findings indicate full accommodation to local mainstream norms with respect to all NCS vowels except /æ/, which displays unique patterning both prenasally and in other environments. The evidence also reveals that young women in Lansing, both Anglo and Mexican American, have adopte…
The Canadian Shift in two Ontario cities
The Canadian Shift, a change-in-progress that is affecting the lax vowel subsystem of Canadian English, has been found to be active in a number of cities across Canada. Very little is known about the geolinguistic history and spread of the shift, however. Combining apparent time data from Thunder Bay, Ontario, with a comparison of lax vowel pronunciation in the speech of young people from both Thunder Bay and Toronto, the current study presents e…
The changing face of dixie
The functional distribution of Spanish and English on signage in a nascent Latino area of a Southern U.S. city is examined. • A frame analytic approach is used to analyze the civic, commercial, and community orientations evident in the signage. • Quantitative distributional results ground the qualitative findings. • Findings reflect cultural heterogeneity and translocal orientation
Phonological mergers have systemic phonetic consequences
This paper provides a unified phonologically motivated explanation for the movement of trap , dress , and kit following the low-back merger in North American English (i.e., the Canadian Shift, California Shift, Low Back Merger Shift, Third Shift, etc.). The explanation puts forth that the three-way merger of lot , palm , and thought results in the loss of the [+Front] feature specification for trap , opening the door for dispersion focalization t…
Language and Life in Appalachia
Review Article| May 01 2022 Language and Life in Appalachia Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Hazen, Kirk. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2020. Pp. xxiv + 203. ISBN 978-1-949199-54-3; $99.99 (pbk & ebk $29.99) Rebecca V. Roeder Rebecca V. Roeder University of North Carolina at Charlotte rebecca v. roeder is an associate professor of linguistics in the Department of English at the University of North Carolin…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Vowel (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)