William Labov
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Description: University of Pennsylvania - Change in language and dialect, sociolinguistics. Principal investigator of the Phonological Atlas of North America, a massive survey of phonetic variation across the USA.
. Examines the role of the lexicon in a regular sound change--raising of /eyC/ in the Philadelphia Neighborhood Corpus throughout the 20th century--to see if the basic unit of change is the word, as proponents of lexical diffusion believe--or the phonologically defined allophone. A number of different quantitative methods show that all words in which /ey/ is found in the relevant environment are selected and move together from the beginning to the end. In the course of this change, the target of raising is changed from words with zero and velar onset to words with a following [+consonantal] segment.
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| Date | activated: 02-Jun-1986 last updated: 14-Jan-2014 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |