Matthew J Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 739412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-1765-8430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
When Missoura Got Warshed Out
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
Language Variation and Change in Rural Communities
Despite the difficulty of delineating the rural from the urban according to economic or demographic criteria, this distinction has powerful cultural resonances, and language plays a key role in constructing the cultural divide between rural and urban. Sociolinguists have generally devoted more attention to urban communities, but substantial research has explored language variation and change in rural areas, and this scholarship complements the pe…
The written questionnaire in social dialectology
Questions of methodology have figured prominently in the scholarly conversation within dialectology and sociolinguistics, and critical consideration of various approaches has flourished. Neverthele
Methodological and Theoretical Issues in the Study of Chain Shifting
A chain shift is a series of two or more sound changes that are related through a kind of chain reaction. The nature of the relationship between elements in a chain shift is a matter of debate among linguists from various sub-fields. Examining this relationship raises questions about the nature of linguistic change and indeed about how language works in general. This article explores how the process of chain shifting is investigated with a focus …
Topic and Focus
A Variationist Sampler
Review Article| February 01 2005 A VARIATIONIST SAMPLER: Variation Past and Present: VARIENG Studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen Edited by Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi, and Matti Rissamen, Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 61, Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 2001. Pp. xxxv + 378. MATTHEW J. GORDON MATTHEW J. GORDON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2005) 80 (…
Principles of Linguistic Change
Principles of Linguistic Change: Social Factors, Volume 2. William Labov. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. 572 pp
A Phonetically Driven Account of Syllable Weight
The author proposes that syllable weight is driven by considerations of phonetic effectiveness and phonological simplicity, and that the phonetically best distinctions are those which divide syllables into groups that are phonetically most distinct from each other. Phonologically complex distinctions are those which exceed an upper threshold in the number of phonological predicates to which they refer. It is claimed that languages adopt weight di…
Re-examining Default-to-opposite Stress
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
Phonological Correlates of Ethnic Identity
Research Article| May 01 2000 PHONOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF ETHNIC IDENTITY: EVIDENCE OF DIVERGENCE? MATTHEW J. GORDON MATTHEW J. GORDON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (2): 115–136. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-2-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation MATTHEW J. GORDON; PHONOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF ETHNIC IDENTITY: EVIDENCE OF DIV…
Tales of the Northern Cities
Research Article| November 01 2000 TALES OF THE NORTHERN CITIES MATTHEW J. GORDON MATTHEW J. GORDON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 412–414. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-412 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation MATTHEW J. GORDON; TALES OF THE NORTHERN CITIES. American Speech 1 November 2000; 75 (4): 412–414. doi: https:/…
Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data
Focus on Ireland
Focus on the USA
The Phonological Composition of Personal Pronouns
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
Topic and Focus
Phonological Correlates of Ethnic Identity
Research Article| May 01 2000 PHONOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF ETHNIC IDENTITY: EVIDENCE OF DIVERGENCE? MATTHEW J. GORDON MATTHEW J. GORDON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (2): 115–136. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-2-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation MATTHEW J. GORDON; PHONOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF ETHNIC IDENTITY: EVIDENCE OF DIV…
A Phonetically Driven Account of Syllable Weight
The author proposes that syllable weight is driven by considerations of phonetic effectiveness and phonological simplicity, and that the phonetically best distinctions are those which divide syllables into groups that are phonetically most distinct from each other. Phonologically complex distinctions are those which exceed an upper threshold in the number of phonological predicates to which they refer. It is claimed that languages adopt weight di…
Language Variation and Change in Rural Communities
Despite the difficulty of delineating the rural from the urban according to economic or demographic criteria, this distinction has powerful cultural resonances, and language plays a key role in constructing the cultural divide between rural and urban. Sociolinguists have generally devoted more attention to urban communities, but substantial research has explored language variation and change in rural areas, and this scholarship complements the pe…
Methodological and Theoretical Issues in the Study of Chain Shifting
A chain shift is a series of two or more sound changes that are related through a kind of chain reaction. The nature of the relationship between elements in a chain shift is a matter of debate among linguists from various sub-fields. Examining this relationship raises questions about the nature of linguistic change and indeed about how language works in general. This article explores how the process of chain shifting is investigated with a focus …
Tales of the Northern Cities
Research Article| November 01 2000 TALES OF THE NORTHERN CITIES MATTHEW J. GORDON MATTHEW J. GORDON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 412–414. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-412 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation MATTHEW J. GORDON; TALES OF THE NORTHERN CITIES. American Speech 1 November 2000; 75 (4): 412–414. doi: https:/…
The Phonological Composition of Personal Pronouns
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
Focus on the USA
Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data
Focus on Ireland
Re-examining Default-to-opposite Stress
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
Phonological Correlates of Ethnic Identity
Research Article| May 01 2000 PHONOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF ETHNIC IDENTITY: EVIDENCE OF DIVERGENCE? MATTHEW J. GORDON MATTHEW J. GORDON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (2): 115–136. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-2-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation MATTHEW J. GORDON; PHONOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF ETHNIC IDENTITY: EVIDENCE OF DIV…
Tales of the Northern Cities
Research Article| November 01 2000 TALES OF THE NORTHERN CITIES MATTHEW J. GORDON MATTHEW J. GORDON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 412–414. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-412 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation MATTHEW J. GORDON; TALES OF THE NORTHERN CITIES. American Speech 1 November 2000; 75 (4): 412–414. doi: https:/…
A Phonetically Driven Account of Syllable Weight
The author proposes that syllable weight is driven by considerations of phonetic effectiveness and phonological simplicity, and that the phonetically best distinctions are those which divide syllables into groups that are phonetically most distinct from each other. Phonologically complex distinctions are those which exceed an upper threshold in the number of phonological predicates to which they refer. It is claimed that languages adopt weight di…
Principles of Linguistic Change
Principles of Linguistic Change: Social Factors, Volume 2. William Labov. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. 572 pp
A Variationist Sampler
Review Article| February 01 2005 A VARIATIONIST SAMPLER: Variation Past and Present: VARIENG Studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen Edited by Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi, and Matti Rissamen, Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 61, Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 2001. Pp. xxxv + 378. MATTHEW J. GORDON MATTHEW J. GORDON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2005) 80 (…
Topic and Focus
Methodological and Theoretical Issues in the Study of Chain Shifting
A chain shift is a series of two or more sound changes that are related through a kind of chain reaction. The nature of the relationship between elements in a chain shift is a matter of debate among linguists from various sub-fields. Examining this relationship raises questions about the nature of linguistic change and indeed about how language works in general. This article explores how the process of chain shifting is investigated with a focus …
The written questionnaire in social dialectology
Questions of methodology have figured prominently in the scholarly conversation within dialectology and sociolinguistics, and critical consideration of various approaches has flourished. Neverthele
Language Variation and Change in Rural Communities
Despite the difficulty of delineating the rural from the urban according to economic or demographic criteria, this distinction has powerful cultural resonances, and language plays a key role in constructing the cultural divide between rural and urban. Sociolinguists have generally devoted more attention to urban communities, but substantial research has explored language variation and change in rural areas, and this scholarship complements the pe…
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
When Missoura Got Warshed Out
Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · History (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Physics (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works)