Jessi's Reading Journal
Monday, April 11, 2011
Rahman 2008
Monday, April 4, 2011
Robinson 2010 Disintegration
Monday, March 28, 2011
DuBois and Horvath 1998
- stress
- # of syllables
- lexical category
- if function word, type of function word
- preceding phonological variant
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Thomas 2007
- consnential lexical variations (sk, sp metathesis)
- Rlessness and l-vocalilzation
- Interdental Fricative realization
- Consonant Cluster Simplicificaion/ -t/-d deletion
- rarer features, such as /skr/ for /str/
- lack of HAPPY tensing
- PIN-PEN merger
- AAE shift
- GOOSE-GOAT fronting
Monday, January 31, 2011
Ethnolects and the city: Hoffman & Walker 2010
Hoffman, M. and Walker, J. A. 2010. Ethnolects and the city: Ethnic orientation and linguistic variation in Toronto English. Language, Variation and Change. 22. 37-67.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Moral Geography: Modan 2007
Gal refers to fractal recursivity, or the ability of the same distinctions to be mapped onto increasingly smaller and smaller or larger and larger domains, in that, for example, there might be the public space of the main street compared with the private space of the residential streets, but then on the residential streets the public space of the street vs. the private space of the houses, and in the houses, the public space of the front porch vs. the private space of the back, etc. etc.