Betty S Phillips

Biographic Data

ID3842200
NAMEBetty S Phillips
GIVEN NAMESBetty S
FAMILY NAMEPhillips
SIGNATUREPHILLIPS B S
AFFILIATIONSIndiana State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS54
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • A Real-Time Study of the “Naughty-Knotty” Merger in West-Central Indiana, USA

    Jon Bakos, Brian José et al.ARTICLELangages2022

    Cet article présente une analyse des voyelles postérieures ouvertes, /ɑ/ et /ɔ/, dans une variété d’anglais américain qui est menée sur une quarantaine d’années de « temps réel » mais en visant une période plus courte de 15 à 20 ans. Nous présentons les résultats d’ anova s sur la distance géométrique entre ces voyelles, tout et prenant en compte le sexe des locuteurs, leurs années de naissance, l’année d’enregistrement et les interactions éventu…

  • Language change by Joan Bybee

    Open AccessBetty S PhillipsARTICLELanguage2016

    Reviewed by: Language change by Joan Bybee Betty S. Phillips Language change. By Joan Bybee. (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii, 292. ISBN 9781107655829. $29.99. In Language change, Bybee has created a book differing from earlier books on historical linguistics in its focus on how all languages at all stages are susceptible to change, following cognitive mechanisms operating in the process…

  • Fast Words, Slow Words

    Betty S PhillipsARTICLEAmerican Speech2000Cited by: 1

    Research Article| November 01 2000 FAST WORDS, SLOW WORDS BETTY S. PHILLIPS BETTY S. PHILLIPS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 414–416. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-414 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation BETTY S. PHILLIPS; FAST WORDS, SLOW WORDS. American Speech 1 November 2000; 75 (4): 414–416. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…

  • Lexical diffusion is not lexical analogy

    Betty S PhillipsARTICLEWORD1998References: 10

    This paper refutes Kiparsky's claim that lexical diffusion “behave[s] like lexical analogy in every respect” (1995:643). Evidence from American English glide deletion, t/d deletion, and vowel reduction/deletion before /r/ is elicited to demonstrate the gradient nature of lexical diffusion, as opposed to the quantal nature Kiparsky attributes to lexical analogy. Kiparsky's claim that “the mechanism [for lexical diffusion] is analogical in just the…

  • British versus American -Ate and -Ator: Convergence, Divergence, and the Lexicon

    Betty S PhillipsARTICLEAmerican Speech1998References: 3

    L'A. analyse le changement d'accentuation entre le verbe et l'adjectif ou le nom correspondant se terminant en -ate et -ator en comparant l'anglais britannique a l'anglais americain. Il propose egalement un apercu du developpemnt diachronique de ce changement linguistique

  • Over Halfway There: Volume 3 of Dare

    Betty S Phillips, Frederic G Cassidy et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1997

  • The Origins and Development of the English Language (4th edition)

    Open AccessBetty S PhillipsARTICLEWorld Englishes1994

  • Southern English Glide Deletion Revisited

    Betty S PhillipsARTICLEAmerican Speech1994Cited by: 2References: 1

    Apres avoir resume ce que les recherches precedentes ont apporte a la question de la suppression des glides en anglais dans des mots tels que tuesday, new, dew, l'A. examine la prononciation de ce son chez deux groupes de sujets de la meme region (sud de la Georgie, Etats-Unis) variant par l'âge (1 er groupe: 66 a 88 ans, 2 nd groupe: 13 a 19 ans). Les sujets doivent lire une liste de cent mots, dont trente commencent par tu-, nu- ou du

  • Open syllable lengthening and the Ormulum

    Betty S PhillipsARTICLEWORD1992References: 6

    The date at which Middle English open syllable lengthening began and the value of the evidence from the Ormulum (ca. 1200) in determining that date have been disputed. This paper reviews the evidence from Orm's accent marks and breves and from the metrical scheme of the poem. Four words with etymologically short vowels were marked with an accent mark by Orm—one adjective in a stressed context and three nouns. Evidence from the use of breves (unde…

  • Nicknames and sex role stereotypes

    Open AccessBetty S PhillipsARTICLESex Roles1990Cited by: 6References: 4

  • A Swamping Colonial Glossary

    Betty S Phillips, Richard M LedererARTICLEAmerican Speech1988

  • Word Frequency and the Actuation of Sound Change

    Betty S PhillipsARTICLELanguage1984Cited by: 30

    By presenting evidence from three different sound changes within the history of English, this paper demonstrates that sound changes do not always affect the most frequent words first; on the contrary, certain changes affect the least frequent words first. A comparison of sound changes exhibiting each direction of diffusion reveals that changes affecting the most frequent words first are motivated by physiological factors, acting on surface phonet…

  • Upstate and Downstate in New York

    Open AccessBetty S PhillipsARTICLENames1983Cited by: 2References: 2

    One of the most puzzling terminologies for persons living outside of New York State (hereafter NYS) is the distinction betweel) Upstate and Downstate New York. Most current dictionaries follow Mathews' Dictionary of Americanisms (1966) in defining upstate as "a region in a state that is away from, and usu[ally] north of, some large city. Used esp [ecially] in the state of New York. " Certainly a natural assumption would be that "some large city" …

  • Middle English diphthongization, phonetic analogy, and lexical diffusion

    Betty S PhillipsARTICLEWORD1983Cited by: 2References: 9

  • Lexical diffusion and function words

    Open AccessBetty S PhillipsARTICLELinguistics1983Cited by: 1

  • Lexical Diffusion and Southern Tune, Duke, News

    Betty S PhillipsARTICLEAmerican Speech1981Cited by: 10

  • Old English an ∼ on: A New Appraisal

    Open AccessBetty S PhillipsARTICLEJournal of English Linguistics1980

  • Two approaches to a phonological problem

    Betty S PhillipsARTICLEWORD1980References: 3

  • Old English Phonology

    Betty S Phillips, Roger Lass et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1978