Which “There” is There? George Harrison’s Dialect Shifting in His Late 1960s Songs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21836490 |
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| Authors | Karen A Duchaj (0009-0009-1943-9877, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 240-253 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rock Music Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-1159 • E-ISSN: 1940-1167 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19401159.2020.1792184 |
| OpenAlex | W3040843438 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
The Beatles exhibited certain Liverpool dialect features, and George Harrison retained many lifelong in song. Examined is the “hair” vowel, which Liverpool speakers previously pronounced like standard “her”; e.g. “there” in “the love there that's sleeping” in “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. In 1966-1970, Harrison sang both pronunciations. We sought correlations between Harrison's pronunciation and song-internal and external factors. Two pronunciation connections emerged: (1) whether a song was an earlier vs. released version and (2) where the word occurred. Results suggest Harrison shifted from his native pronunciation to the standard for final versions and from within verses to prominent positions
Art · Art history · Guitar · Linguistics · Literature · Pronunciation · Vowel · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research
| Highly cited | No |
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