Margaret E L Renwick
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1719944 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Margaret E L Renwick |
| PRENOMES | Margaret E L |
| SOBRENOME | Renwick |
| ASSINATURA | RENWICK M E L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8759-1717 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Language Change at the Intersections of Movement, Economy, and Orientation
A growing amount of research on North American English varieties shows that many sociolinguistic variables peaked among the Baby Boomer Generation (born approximately 1946-64).By "peak," we mean that a linguistic phenomenon in one community has reached its point of greatest intensity and is maximally divergent from realizations of that same variable in most other North American communities.Similarly, we also find studies that describe a "cliff" b…
Demographic Change, Migration, and the African American Vowel System in Georgia
The theme of this volume is generational trends in language change, with an emphasis on the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition as an important period of time. Many studies have found sharp changes in vowel systems in communities after the Baby Boomer Generation on the East Coast (Thiel and Dinkin 2020) and in the Midwest (Nesbitt 2021). Though we know a great deal about the geographic consistency of the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition, in all of the…
Robustness and Complexity in Italian Mid Vowel Contrasts
Accounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose patterning reveals speakers' knowledge about their native language. This paper explores the complexity of contrasts among Italian mid vowels from a multifaceted perspective considering the lexicon, linguistic structure, usage, and regional variety. The Italian mid vowels are mar…
Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English
The late twentieth century in the United States marks the decline of regional vowel systems like the Northern Cities Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift, replaced by supralocal systems like the Low-Back-Merger Shift. We chart such change in acoustic data from seven generations of White speakers ( n = 135) in the Southeastern state of Georgia. We analyze front vowels affected by both the SVS and LBMS ( dress, trap ), plus price and face , known res…
Race, Place, and Education
Over the past century, the wine-whine merger has transitioned from a localized regional feature to a nearly ubiquitous characteristic of U.S. English, a pattern of language change whose social correlates have largely gone unexplored. The present study draws from the Digital Archive of Southern Speech (DASS), a database of 64 linguistic interviews collected in 1970–83, to analyze the distribution of [hw] and [w] pronunciations of morpheme-initial …
Modeling language change in English first names
Some lexical classes are more susceptible to the effects of sound symbolism, a hypothesized relationship where speech sounds represent non-phonetic properties. Sound symbolic principles are manifested in male and female personal names in English. While previous research found distinct differences between female and male names in English, the current study fills a gap in existing research by adopting a diachronic perspective: male and female names…
Back Vowel Dynamics and Distinctions in Southern American English
Southern American English is spoken in a large geographic region in the United States. Its characteristics include back-vowel fronting (e.g., in goose, foot, and goat), which has been ongoing since the mid-nineteenth century; meanwhile, the low back vowels (in lot and thought) have recently merged in some areas. We investigate these five vowels in the Digital Archive of Southern Speech, a legacy corpus of linguistic interviews with sixty-four spe…
Embracing multidimensionality in phonological analysis
We pursue the idea, implicit in much current phonological research, that understanding the multiple factors that shape speech production and perception is within the purview of phonology. In particular, increased access to naturalistic data has highlighted the multidimensional reality of variation in spoken language. At the same time, longstanding methods of doing phonology – including impressionistic analysis, and laboratory and experimental stu…
A Survey of Phonological Mid Vowel Intuitions in Central Catalan
Catalan, like other Romance languages, has two pairs of phonemic mid vowels (/be/ “well” vs. /bɛ/ “lamb”; /os/ “bear” vs. /ɔs/ “bone”). However, these contrasts do not function like others in the language: they are partially phonologically conditioned, and evidence shows that words may be pronounced with different mid vowels by speakers of the same variety or even by the same speaker. Spanish may influence this instability, as first-language Span…
Probabilistic underspecification in nasal place assimilation
According to many works on English phonology, word-final alveolar consonants – and only alveolar consonants – assimilate to following word-initial consonants, e.g. ran quickly → ra [ŋ] quickly . Some phonologists explain the readiness of alveolar consonants to assimilate ( vs. the resistance of velar and labial articulations) by proposing that they have underspecified place of articulation (e.g. Avery & Rice 1989). Labial or dorsal nasals do not …
Variation in the lexical distribution and implementation of phonetically similar phonemes in Catalan
Variation in the lexical distribution and implementation of phonetically similar phonemes in Catalan
Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English
The late twentieth century in the United States marks the decline of regional vowel systems like the Northern Cities Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift, replaced by supralocal systems like the Low-Back-Merger Shift. We chart such change in acoustic data from seven generations of White speakers ( n = 135) in the Southeastern state of Georgia. We analyze front vowels affected by both the SVS and LBMS ( dress, trap ), plus price and face , known res…
A Survey of Phonological Mid Vowel Intuitions in Central Catalan
Catalan, like other Romance languages, has two pairs of phonemic mid vowels (/be/ “well” vs. /bɛ/ “lamb”; /os/ “bear” vs. /ɔs/ “bone”). However, these contrasts do not function like others in the language: they are partially phonologically conditioned, and evidence shows that words may be pronounced with different mid vowels by speakers of the same variety or even by the same speaker. Spanish may influence this instability, as first-language Span…
Probabilistic underspecification in nasal place assimilation
According to many works on English phonology, word-final alveolar consonants – and only alveolar consonants – assimilate to following word-initial consonants, e.g. ran quickly → ra [ŋ] quickly . Some phonologists explain the readiness of alveolar consonants to assimilate ( vs. the resistance of velar and labial articulations) by proposing that they have underspecified place of articulation (e.g. Avery & Rice 1989). Labial or dorsal nasals do not …
Variation in the lexical distribution and implementation of phonetically similar phonemes in Catalan
A Survey of Phonological Mid Vowel Intuitions in Central Catalan
Catalan, like other Romance languages, has two pairs of phonemic mid vowels (/be/ “well” vs. /bɛ/ “lamb”; /os/ “bear” vs. /ɔs/ “bone”). However, these contrasts do not function like others in the language: they are partially phonologically conditioned, and evidence shows that words may be pronounced with different mid vowels by speakers of the same variety or even by the same speaker. Spanish may influence this instability, as first-language Span…
Back Vowel Dynamics and Distinctions in Southern American English
Southern American English is spoken in a large geographic region in the United States. Its characteristics include back-vowel fronting (e.g., in goose, foot, and goat), which has been ongoing since the mid-nineteenth century; meanwhile, the low back vowels (in lot and thought) have recently merged in some areas. We investigate these five vowels in the Digital Archive of Southern Speech, a legacy corpus of linguistic interviews with sixty-four spe…
Embracing multidimensionality in phonological analysis
We pursue the idea, implicit in much current phonological research, that understanding the multiple factors that shape speech production and perception is within the purview of phonology. In particular, increased access to naturalistic data has highlighted the multidimensional reality of variation in spoken language. At the same time, longstanding methods of doing phonology – including impressionistic analysis, and laboratory and experimental stu…
Modeling language change in English first names
Some lexical classes are more susceptible to the effects of sound symbolism, a hypothesized relationship where speech sounds represent non-phonetic properties. Sound symbolic principles are manifested in male and female personal names in English. While previous research found distinct differences between female and male names in English, the current study fills a gap in existing research by adopting a diachronic perspective: male and female names…
Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English
The late twentieth century in the United States marks the decline of regional vowel systems like the Northern Cities Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift, replaced by supralocal systems like the Low-Back-Merger Shift. We chart such change in acoustic data from seven generations of White speakers ( n = 135) in the Southeastern state of Georgia. We analyze front vowels affected by both the SVS and LBMS ( dress, trap ), plus price and face , known res…
Race, Place, and Education
Over the past century, the wine-whine merger has transitioned from a localized regional feature to a nearly ubiquitous characteristic of U.S. English, a pattern of language change whose social correlates have largely gone unexplored. The present study draws from the Digital Archive of Southern Speech (DASS), a database of 64 linguistic interviews collected in 1970–83, to analyze the distribution of [hw] and [w] pronunciations of morpheme-initial …
Language Change at the Intersections of Movement, Economy, and Orientation
A growing amount of research on North American English varieties shows that many sociolinguistic variables peaked among the Baby Boomer Generation (born approximately 1946-64).By "peak," we mean that a linguistic phenomenon in one community has reached its point of greatest intensity and is maximally divergent from realizations of that same variable in most other North American communities.Similarly, we also find studies that describe a "cliff" b…
Demographic Change, Migration, and the African American Vowel System in Georgia
The theme of this volume is generational trends in language change, with an emphasis on the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition as an important period of time. Many studies have found sharp changes in vowel systems in communities after the Baby Boomer Generation on the East Coast (Thiel and Dinkin 2020) and in the Midwest (Nesbitt 2021). Though we know a great deal about the geographic consistency of the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition, in all of the…
Robustness and Complexity in Italian Mid Vowel Contrasts
Accounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose patterning reveals speakers' knowledge about their native language. This paper explores the complexity of contrasts among Italian mid vowels from a multifaceted perspective considering the lexicon, linguistic structure, usage, and regional variety. The Italian mid vowels are mar…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 obras) · Linguistics (9 obras) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 obras) · Vowel (7 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · History (3 obras) · Mid vowel (3 obras)