The relevance of community language studies to HEL: The view from Roswell

Kretzschmar, William A.; Lanehart, Sonja L.; Anderson, Bridget; Childs, Becky

doi:10.1515/9783110198515.3.173

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“…Reel-to-reel tape data was digitized to .wav format by the LAP at the University of Georgia. Recordings in Roswell, Georgia, were collected within the Roswell Voices Project, largely in 2003 and 2006 (Kretzschmar, 2016; Kretzschmar, Andres, Votta, & Johnson, 2006; Kretzschmar, Lanehart, Anderson, & Childs, 2004). This corpus includes oral history interviews and word lists with long-term residents of Roswell, Georgia, an urbanizing “exurb” of Atlanta (Andres & Votta, 2009).…”

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Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English

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The late twentieth century in the United States marks the decline of regional vowel systems like the Northern Cities Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift, replaced by supralocal systems like the Low-Back-Merger Shift. We chart such change in acoustic data from seven generations of White speakers (n = 135) in the Southeastern state of Georgia. We analyze front vowels affected by both the SVS and LBMS (dress, trap), plus price and face, known respectively to monophthongize and centralize in the SVS, and LBMS-implicated lot/thought. The SVS is most advanced among Georgians born in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in face-centralization. In Generation X, retraction of front lax vowels begins, leading toward the LBMS. These results, which hold across genders and education levels, support findings that regional vowel systems declined precipitously following a Gen X “cliff,” raising questions about how such language changes are rooted in demographic transformations of that time period.

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Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English

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“…In addition to questionnaire surveys, historical and ongoing, the LAP team maintains an active community language field site in Roswell, Georgia, under the name of "Roswell Voices" (Kretzschmar, Lanehart, Anderson, et al 2004). The goal is to track linguistic change within the community, especially across different generations and segments of the population.…”

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“…In Roswell, local speakers are really collaborating with the researchers on a joint effort to document their own language and culture, and thus it was appropriate not to have a fee. For instance, the team made a presentation called Roswell Voices as part of the city's sesquicentennial celebration and produced a booklet that is currently distributed from the Roswell Convention and Visitors Office (Kretzschmar, Lanehart, Anderson, et al 2004). However, in the project's funded research in which speakers are randomly selected to participate in areal samples, the fee offers at least a small compensation for their time and cooperation.…”

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Collaboration on Corpora for Regional and Social Analysis

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et al. 2006

Journal of English Linguistics

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Compilers of corpora that document regional and social languages and varieties of languages have different needs and goals, and yet we also face common problems, and we should have an interest in collaboration. In this paper, we set forth our intention to begin such a collaboration. We begin by exploring the parameters of our various corpora. We then explore issues of access and analysis, whether public or private, whether for general audiences or for specialists. Finally, we assert that it is indeed possible, practical, and desirable for us to apply common methods to our common problems, and we propose specific recommendations. W e are a group of six researchers who have been part of corpus development for some time. We wish in this essay to do something different from our independent projects: we want to talk about working together. We are all interested in making corpora that document regional and social languages and varieties of languages. While we must necessarily have different needs and goals, we also face common problems, and thus we have an interest in collaboration, for the use of computer tools ourselves and for greater ease of use by our audiences. In this report, we set forth our intention to begin such collaboration. We begin by exploring the parameters of our various corpora, whether historical or newly created; whether of written texts and/or of speech; and whether recorded in writing, audio, or video. We then explore the parameters of access and analysis, whether they be public or private,

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“…To introduce one final dimension of the Atlanta data, we have also surveyed speakers from Roswell, Georgia, a city just north of Atlanta (see Kretzschmar et al 2007; Roswell interviews will be available at www.lap.uga.edu). The site of Roswell was in Cherokee territory, and in 1839 after the Native Americans were expelled in the "Trail of Tears" the Roswell settlement was founded with a textile mill on the Chattahoochee River.…”

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