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The Appalachian English Website: An Updated and Expanded Online Resource
In: ASA Annual Conference (2017)
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The Archive of Traditional Appalachian Speech and Culture
In: ASA Annual Conference (2016)
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Mountain Intonation: Using Pitch in Appalachian Englishes
In: ASA Annual Conference (2015)
Abstract: This paper shows how intonation (i.e. changing pitch across a sentence) is a defining feature of Appalachian English (AE), and how it differentiates AE from other types of American English. This study analyzes the intonation from sociolinguistic interview data from 24 (12 male, 12 female) Appalachian English (AE) speakers from northeast Tennessee. These results were compared to other American English varieties with data from demographically comparable Southern and Mainstream speakers. In addition, the AE speakers were categorized by local orientation and ‘rootedness’ based on responses to questions about feelings toward the local region and responses to a survey instrument. Results show that overall the highest point of the pitch aligned differently in the syllable in this variety of AE than in other varieties. Additionally, these Appalachian speakers appear to have greater change in pitch (from the minimum to the maximum local pitch) than other Southern and Mainstream American English speakers. Moreover, these results indicate that those speakers who have a greater local orientation and rootedness appear to have the greatest excursion and most different pitch alignment. This finding suggests that pitch might be a socio-pragmatically productive means for speakers to demonstrate orientation toward and to reflect covert prestige associated with a stigmatized region.
Keyword: literature_language
URL: https://mds.marshall.edu/asa_conference/2015/full/161
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