Shelome Gooden

Biographic Data

ID785644
NAMEShelome Gooden
GIVEN NAMESShelome
FAMILY NAMEGooden
SIGNATUREGOODEN S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pittsburgh
ORCID0000-0002-4871-7380
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The Editors’ Report

    Open AccessJohn Beaver, John Beavers et al.ARTICLELanguage2026

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  • The Editors’ Report

    Open AccessJohn Beaver, John Beavers et al.ARTICLELanguage2025

  • The Editors' Report

    Open AccessJohn Beavers, Shelome GoodenARTICLELanguage2024

    The Editors' Report John Beavers, Editor and Shelome Gooden, Co-Editor [The following is a modified and updated version of the report made to the LSA at the annual business meeting, on January 6th, 2024.] 1. Introduction The year 2023 was another successful one for Language. We saw submissions up considerably from the previous year, with an increasing diversity in the areas of submission. All four issues were published on time, for a total number…

  • Sociophonetic variation in the alveolar lateral in Yami

    Open AccessLi-Fang Lai, Shelome GoodenARTICLEAsia-Pacific Language Variation2023

    This paper examines lateral (/l/) variation in Yami, an indigenous language of Orchid Island, Taiwan. New acoustic evidence on F2–F1 distance and duration shows that palatalized laterals [l j ] in Yami are characterized by greater formant distance and longer duration. These acoustic correlates are influenced by a mixed bag of social and linguistic factors, indicating the need for a coordinated assessment of these factors. Results also suggest tha…

  • The Editors' Report

    Open AccessJohn Beavers, Andries W Coetzee et al.ARTICLELanguage2023

    The Editors’ Report John Beavers, Editor, Andries W. Coetzee, Editor (2017–2022), and Shelome Gooden, Co-Editor [The following is a modified and updated version of the report made to the LSA at the annual business meeting, on January 7th, 2023.] 1. Continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic Although we still saw some impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022, we were able to publish all four issues for the year on time. This is in no small part due…

  • Intonation and Prosody in Creole Languages

    Shelome GoodenARTICLEAnnual Review of Linguistics2022Cited by: 2References: 16

    Research on the prosody and intonation of creole languages has largely remained an untapped resource, yet it is important for enriching our understanding of how or if their phonological systems changed or developed under contact. Further, their hybrid histories and current linguistic ecologies present descriptive and analytical treasure troves. This has the potential to inform many areas of linguistic inquiry including contact effects on the typo…

  • Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community

    Open AccessLi-Fang Lai, Shelome GoodenARTICLELanguage and Speech2022References: 59

    This study investigates socioprosodic variation in Yami, a moribund indigenous language under intense contact with Mandarin in Taiwan: 32 bilingual (Yami-dominant, balanced, Mandarin-dominant) and 5 Yami-monolingual participants were recruited. We used an Interactive Card Game to elicit semi-spontaneous speech for neutral questions (NQ), default declarative questions (DQ1), and declarative questions with lighter incredulity (DQ2). Results reveal …

  • Sociolectal and Dialectal Variation in Prosody

    Open AccessMeghan E Armstrong, Meghan Armstrong et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2022Cited by: 1References: 26

    As in many linguistics subfields, studies of prosody have mainly focused on majority languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in social structures. The goal of this Special Issue is to diversify prosody research in terms of the languages and dialects being investigated, as well as the social structures that influence prosodic variation. The Special Issue brings together prosody researchers and researchers exploring sociological varia…

  • African American Language in Pittsburgh and the Lower Susquehanna Valley

    Jennifer Bloomquist, Lisa J Green et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of African…2015

  • Language change in contact languages

    J Clancy Clements, Shelome GoodenARTICLEStudies in Language2009

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  • Tone inventories and tune-text alignments

    Shelome Gooden, Kathy-Ann Drayton et al.ARTICLEStudies in Language2009

    The “hybrid” prosodic systems described for several Caribbean creoles challenge typologies that dichotomize between “intonation languages” and “tone languages” or between “stress” and “pitch-accent” languages. A more nuanced differentiation emerges if languages are compared in terms of questions concerning tone inventory and tune-text alignment, such as: Are the tunes of short utterances composed primarily of tone patterns specified to contrast w…

  • Discourse aspects of tense marking in Belizean Creole

    Shelome GoodenARTICLEEnglish World-Wide A Journal of…2008

    Debates on the relationship between the aspectual properties of verbs and past marking in Caribbean English Creoles tend to focus on two main issues. The first is the semantic function of the “relative past” and its relation to the unmarked verb, and the second is the discourse functions of the relative past marker and the unmarked verb. This paper addresses two issues related to this debate. Using fieldwork data from Belizean Creole, I present a…

  • Language, Ethnicity, and Social Identity

    Shelome GoodenARTICLEAmerican Speech2008References: 2