The new issue of American Speech is out, a special issue, co-edited by Wisconsin's own Tom Purnell together with Malcah Yaeger-Dror of Arizona. Below is part of the Table of Contents (the full ToC and abstracts are available from the links in there, obviously). If you count Purnell's work on African-American English in the Upper Midwest, this one issue shows you how rich this region is not only linguistically but now in terms of the research being done here on local varieties.ACCOMMODATION TO THE LOCALLY DOMINANT NORM: A SPECIAL ISSUEBy the way, if you have access to American Speech, you should also check out the "Teaching American Speech" section. Michael Adams, the current editor, has done an exemplary job of building the journal as a scholarly outlet and as something that serves the broader community.
THOMAS C. PURNELL and MALCAH YAEGER-DROR
American Speech 2010;85 115-120
http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/85/2/115?etoc
ACCOMMODATION TO THE LOCAL MAJORITY NORM BY HMONG AMERICANS IN THE TWIN CITIES, MINNESOTA
RIKA ITO
American Speech 2010;85 141-162
http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/2/141?etoc
NORTHERN CITIES MEXICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH: VOWEL PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION
REBECCA V. ROEDER
American Speech 2010;85 163-184
http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/2/163?etoc
It's a good time to be a linguist working in the Upper Midwest, I think.
4 comments:
Nice. Adams has done a great job with that journal.
Still waiting for anybody to do something on Alaskan English. Now that the Palin fervor has died down apparently no one is interested any longer in the area.
I’ll go back to being grumpy about something else now.
It seems like a perfect place for work: In Wisconsin, the folks here are seeing the working out of koine formation and such. In parts of Alaska, things are significantly earlier in the process. Could provide tremendous data on dialect formation.
The Journal of English Linguistics, I hear, also has a special issue on accommodation coming out soon.
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