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Rebel Vowels: How Vowel Shift Patterns are Reshaping Speech in the Modern South
Author(s) -
Fridland Valerie
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1002/lnc3.325
Subject(s) - vowel , linguistics , vowel length , mid vowel , metropolitan area , state (computer science) , history , sociology , computer science , philosophy , archaeology , formant , algorithm
This article discusses the main reflexes of contemporary vowel changes in the South. In particular, the current state of knowledge about the Southern Vowel Shift and back vowel fronting is explored. This paper will discuss how these vowel patterns contribute to speech in a modern South, one asserting the region’s unique heritage while at the same time proclaiming its increasingly metropolitan and diverse status in the American landscape, and discuss the implications of this modernity.