David Ellingson Eddington
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ellingson Eddington |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Ellingson |
| FAMILY NAME | Eddington |
| SIGNATURE | EDDINGTON D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Utah Naming Practices, 1960–2020
You can tell you are from Utah if you are Jaxton, your mother is Sariah, and your grandparents are Alma and LaRue. Jokes such as this one, which center on the creative names many residents of the state of Utah in the United States give their offspring, abound.1 It is not just the more modern varieties like Kaylee and Kaden that have caught people's ears. In 1945, Henry Louis Mencken noted unusual names in the state belonging to the now uncommon L…
Diminutive formation in Brazilian Portuguese
In a survey, 1,053 Brazilians provided the diminutive form of 60 test words. For example, given desconto participants provided diminutives such as descontinho or descontito. Most responses involved the suffixes - zinho and -inho. However, in many cases - zito and -ito were given as well . Statistical analysis revealed that the final phone and stress pattern of the base word were the most important predictors of diminutive form. A number of age-ap…
A production and perception study of /t/ glottalization and oral releases following glottals in the US
The articulation of /t/ in American English varies according to linguistic and extralinguistic factors. Concerning social factors, word-final /t/ glottalization is seen more among speakers of African American English (Farrington 2018), younger speakers (Partin-Hernandez 2005, Roberts 2006), and women (Byrd 1994, Eddington and Channer 2010). This paper examines the production and perception of /t/ in five US states: Indiana, Mississippi, New Mexic…
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A production and perception study of /t/ glottalization and oral releases following glottals in the US
The articulation of /t/ in American English varies according to linguistic and extralinguistic factors. Concerning social factors, word-final /t/ glottalization is seen more among speakers of African American English (Farrington 2018), younger speakers (Partin-Hernandez 2005, Roberts 2006), and women (Byrd 1994, Eddington and Channer 2010). This paper examines the production and perception of /t/ in five US states: Indiana, Mississippi, New Mexic…
Diminutive formation in Brazilian Portuguese
In a survey, 1,053 Brazilians provided the diminutive form of 60 test words. For example, given desconto participants provided diminutives such as descontinho or descontito. Most responses involved the suffixes - zinho and -inho. However, in many cases - zito and -ito were given as well . Statistical analysis revealed that the final phone and stress pattern of the base word were the most important predictors of diminutive form. A number of age-ap…
Utah Naming Practices, 1960–2020
You can tell you are from Utah if you are Jaxton, your mother is Sariah, and your grandparents are Alma and LaRue. Jokes such as this one, which center on the creative names many residents of the state of Utah in the United States give their offspring, abound.1 It is not just the more modern varieties like Kaylee and Kaden that have caught people's ears. In 1945, Henry Louis Mencken noted unusual names in the state belonging to the now uncommon L…
Psychology (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (2 works) · American English (1 work) · Audiology (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Diminutive (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · History (1 work)