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Listening to the past : audio records of accents of English / edited by Raymond Hickey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in English language.
- Studies in English language
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Variation--Research.
- English language.
- English language--Dialects--Research.
- English language--Spoken English--Research.
- English language--Phonology--Research.
- English language--Listening comprehension--Research.
- English language--English speaking countries.
- Sound recordings--Research.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 574 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This book is the first to bring together a team of globally recognised scholars to document and analyse these early recordings in a single volume. Looking at examples of regional varieties of English from England, Scotland, Ireland, the USA, Canada and other anglophone countries, the volume explores both standard and vernacular varieties, and demonstrates how accents of English have changed between the late nineteenth century and the present day. The socio-phonetic examinations of the recordings will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, the history of the English language, language variation and change, phonetics, and phonology.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-316-86683-1
- 1-316-86791-9
- 1-316-86809-5
- 1-316-86827-3
- 1-316-86899-0
- 1-107-27986-0
- 1-316-86845-1
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