J K Chambers
Biographic Data
| ID | 233748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J K Chambers |
| GIVEN NAMES | J K |
| FAMILY NAME | Chambers |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMBERS J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Dialects of English
William Labov
William Labov launched the branch of language studies known as language variation and change or (more vaguely) sociolinguistics with several influential studies in the 1960s and seminal publications in the early 1970s. As the discipline spread to universities and research institutes in North America and, with remarkable rapidity, to Europe, Asia, the Antipodes, and ultimately all corners of the globe, Professor Labov has remained at or near the f…
Sociolinguistics
People adjust their vocabulary, sounds, and syntax depending upon who they are speaking to and the circumstances of the conversation. For instance, sales representatives talk about “automobiles” in the showroom but about “cars” with their neighbors, and they enunciate when reporting to their managers in ways that would seem stilted if they spoke that way to their friends after work. Such adjustments are linguistically subtle and socially meticulo…
Homogeneity as a sociolinguistic motive in Canadian English
A comparative sociolinguistic study of a nation-wide change in Canada in the 1980s led to the unexpected conclusion that the forces that brought about the homogeneity of inland, urban, middle-class Canadian English were still functioning. Claims for homogeneity (starting in 1951) had previously been impressionistic, but now more rigorous methods give credence to homogeneity as a sociolinguistic motive by revealing virtually identical progress of …
Louis Gauchat — Patriarch of Variationist Linguistics
Louis Gauchat (1866-1942), Patriarch of Variationist Linguistics
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Languages in Contact
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Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics is the systematic study of the social uses of language. It proceeds by observing the way people use language in different social settings. People adjust their vocabulary, sounds, and syntax depending upon who they are speaking to and the circumstances of the conversation. Such adjustments are often linguistically subtle and socially meticulous and largely subconscious. They are not taught or consciously learned, but are part of t…
Canadian Raising Retrospect and Prospect
Canadian Raising, which makes allophonic variants of the low diphthongs /ai/ and /au/, is evaluated with respect to its diachronic, geographic, and synchronic status. Its origins have been established by documentary evidence from 1934. However, comparative dialect evidence from the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada pushes the origins back to the second half of the 19th century. Raising of /ai/ in the northern United States turns ou…
Sociolinguistics and the Language Faculty
The discovery that some processes are primitive rather than learned provides a window into the properties of the language faculty. One of the postulated modules of the language faculty is sociolinguistic competence, the ability to use language appropriately in its socio-cultural nexus. I present three cases where variable phenomena exhibit regularities that appear to be essential rather than accidental. First is the Ethan Experience, which inures…
Dynamics of dialect convergence
Mobility is the most effective leveller of dialect and accent, and mobility constitutes a powerful linguistic force today. The sociolinguistics of mobility unites several disparate threads in my own research. First, immigration represents extreme mobility, and societies with profuse immigration differ in partly predictable ways linguistically and culturally from those with little or no immigration. Second, dialect acquisition by the children of n…
Universal sources of the vernacular
Region and language variation
Traditional dialectology took region as its primary and often its only independent variable. Because of numerous social changes, region is no longer the primary determinant of language variation, and contemporary (sociolinguistic) dialectology has expanded the number of independent variables. In Dialect Topography, we survey a representative population, and that population inevitably includes some subjects born outside the survey region. We want …
Dialectology
World Enough and Time
Research Article| August 01 2000 WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME: GLOBAL ENCLAVES OF THE NEAR FUTURE J. K. CHAMBERS J. K. CHAMBERS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 285–287. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-285 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. K. CHAMBERS; WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME: GLOBAL ENCLAVES OF THE NEAR FUTURE. American Speech…
Dialect Topography of Québec City English
Québec City has had an anglophone community for 250 years. A representative sample of this community was surveyed using the methods known as Dialect Topography. The analysis establishes the distinctiveness of Québec City English but at the same time shows that it is firmly planted in the Canadian English speech community. It is shown that there are significant correlations with three social factors: (1) Language Use Index, which allows a calculat…
Dialectology
When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics), dialect geography and spatial variation into a cohesive discipline. In this second edition, the authors take account of the renaissance of dialect research in the last twenty years. They offer new sections on dialectometry and mapping variability, a revised section on dialect geography as well as updates of other recent developments. …
Nasal Plosion and Other Mysteries
Nasal Plosion and Other Mysteries
Research Article| December 01 1998 Nasal Plosion and Other Mysteries J. K. Chambers J. K. Chambers University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1998) 80 (1): 67–77. https://doi.org/10.1215/-80-1-67 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. K. Chambers; Nasal Plosion and Other Mysteries. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 D…
Sociolinguistic Theory
List of Figures. List of Tables. Series Editor's Preface. Preface to the First Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the Revised Edition. 1. Correlations. 1.1 The Domain of Sociolinguistics. 1.2 The Variable as a Structural Unit. 1.3 Variation and the Tradition of Categoricity. 2. Class, Network, and Mobility . 2.1 Social Class and Sociolinguistic Sampling. 2.2 Indexing Social Class. 2.3 Class Markers. 2.4 The Effects of Mobility. 2.…
An Introduction to Dialect Topography
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Linguistic Correlates of Gender and Sex
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Dialect Acquisition
Immigrants from one dialect region to another acquire features of the new dialect with varying degrees of proficiency. In modern societies regional mobility is commonplace, and for modern dialectology, involved as it is with variability, mechanisms of change, and adaptation, it is a rich source of hypotheses. This article postulates eight general principles by which immigrants adapt dialectologically to their new surroundings, based mainly on res…
Lawrence M. Davis. Statistics in Dialectology. Tuscaloosa
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J.L. Dillard. Toward a Social History of American English . With a chapter on Appalachian English by Linda L. Blanton. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 39. Berlin
J.L. Dillard. Toward a Social History of American English . With a chapter on Appalachian English by Linda L. Blanton. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 39. Berlin: Mouton. 1985. Pp. xii + 301. - Volume 32 Issue 4
Dialect Acquisition
Immigrants from one dialect region to another acquire features of the new dialect with varying degrees of proficiency. In modern societies regional mobility is commonplace, and for modern dialectology, involved as it is with variability, mechanisms of change, and adaptation, it is a rich source of hypotheses. This article postulates eight general principles by which immigrants adapt dialectologically to their new surroundings, based mainly on res…
Dynamics of dialect convergence
Mobility is the most effective leveller of dialect and accent, and mobility constitutes a powerful linguistic force today. The sociolinguistics of mobility unites several disparate threads in my own research. First, immigration represents extreme mobility, and societies with profuse immigration differ in partly predictable ways linguistically and culturally from those with little or no immigration. Second, dialect acquisition by the children of n…
An Introduction to Dialect Topography
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World Enough and Time
Research Article| August 01 2000 WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME: GLOBAL ENCLAVES OF THE NEAR FUTURE J. K. CHAMBERS J. K. CHAMBERS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 285–287. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-285 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. K. CHAMBERS; WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME: GLOBAL ENCLAVES OF THE NEAR FUTURE. American Speech…
Region and language variation
Traditional dialectology took region as its primary and often its only independent variable. Because of numerous social changes, region is no longer the primary determinant of language variation, and contemporary (sociolinguistic) dialectology has expanded the number of independent variables. In Dialect Topography, we survey a representative population, and that population inevitably includes some subjects born outside the survey region. We want …
Linguistic Correlates of Gender and Sex
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Comparative Sociolinguistics of a Sound Change in Canadian English
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Homogeneity as a sociolinguistic motive in Canadian English
A comparative sociolinguistic study of a nation-wide change in Canada in the 1980s led to the unexpected conclusion that the forces that brought about the homogeneity of inland, urban, middle-class Canadian English were still functioning. Claims for homogeneity (starting in 1951) had previously been impressionistic, but now more rigorous methods give credence to homogeneity as a sociolinguistic motive by revealing virtually identical progress of …
Louis Gauchat (1866-1942), Patriarch of Variationist Linguistics
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William Labov
William Labov launched the branch of language studies known as language variation and change or (more vaguely) sociolinguistics with several influential studies in the 1960s and seminal publications in the early 1970s. As the discipline spread to universities and research institutes in North America and, with remarkable rapidity, to Europe, Asia, the Antipodes, and ultimately all corners of the globe, Professor Labov has remained at or near the f…
Louis Gauchat — Patriarch of Variationist Linguistics
Dialectology
Committee on Amerindian and Eskimo Studies
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A phonological argument for the derivation of the φ‐subclass
(1971). A phonological argument for the derivation of the φ‐subclass. Paper in Linguistics: Vol. 4, No. 3-4, pp. 433-445
A Paraplasm of English Grammars
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Canadian raising
This Paper discusses a particular phonological rule that occurs in several English dialects, including Canadian English. The rule will be referred to throughout as ‘Canadian Raising’ purely for mnemonic purposes; no geographical rigour is intended by the epithet ‘Canadian’—a point that is made abundantly clear in §4, where the distribution of the rule is taken up. The appropriateness of the term resides in the relative role the rule plays in Cana…
Ann Harleman Stewart, Graphic representation of models in linguistic theory. Bloomington
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Clarence L. Barnhart, Sol Steinmetz, and Robert K. Barnhart. The Second Barnhart Dictionary of New English. Bronxville, N. Y
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Macro and Micro Sociolinguistics
Challenging Insular Traditions
Dialectology
Studies in Honour of / Études en l’honneur de Matthew H. Scargill & Jean-Paul Vinay
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Generative Theories of Two Lively Arts
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Round about Midnight
Dialectology
Comparative Sociolinguistics of a Sound Change in Canadian English
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J.L. Dillard. Toward a Social History of American English . With a chapter on Appalachian English by Linda L. Blanton. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 39. Berlin
J.L. Dillard. Toward a Social History of American English . With a chapter on Appalachian English by Linda L. Blanton. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 39. Berlin: Mouton. 1985. Pp. xii + 301. - Volume 32 Issue 4
The Complementizer 'Cep'fer
Lawrence M. Davis. Statistics in Dialectology. Tuscaloosa
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Linguistic Correlates of Gender and Sex
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Dialect Acquisition
Immigrants from one dialect region to another acquire features of the new dialect with varying degrees of proficiency. In modern societies regional mobility is commonplace, and for modern dialectology, involved as it is with variability, mechanisms of change, and adaptation, it is a rich source of hypotheses. This article postulates eight general principles by which immigrants adapt dialectologically to their new surroundings, based mainly on res…
An Introduction to Dialect Topography
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Sociolinguistic Theory
List of Figures. List of Tables. Series Editor's Preface. Preface to the First Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the Revised Edition. 1. Correlations. 1.1 The Domain of Sociolinguistics. 1.2 The Variable as a Structural Unit. 1.3 Variation and the Tradition of Categoricity. 2. Class, Network, and Mobility . 2.1 Social Class and Sociolinguistic Sampling. 2.2 Indexing Social Class. 2.3 Class Markers. 2.4 The Effects of Mobility. 2.…
Dialectology
When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics), dialect geography and spatial variation into a cohesive discipline. In this second edition, the authors take account of the renaissance of dialect research in the last twenty years. They offer new sections on dialectometry and mapping variability, a revised section on dialect geography as well as updates of other recent developments. …
Nasal Plosion and Other Mysteries
Nasal Plosion and Other Mysteries
Research Article| December 01 1998 Nasal Plosion and Other Mysteries J. K. Chambers J. K. Chambers University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1998) 80 (1): 67–77. https://doi.org/10.1215/-80-1-67 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. K. Chambers; Nasal Plosion and Other Mysteries. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 D…
Dialect Topography of Québec City English
Québec City has had an anglophone community for 250 years. A representative sample of this community was surveyed using the methods known as Dialect Topography. The analysis establishes the distinctiveness of Québec City English but at the same time shows that it is firmly planted in the Canadian English speech community. It is shown that there are significant correlations with three social factors: (1) Language Use Index, which allows a calculat…
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