Listening to the Past
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Listening to the Past

Audio Records of Accents of English

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Listening to the Past

Audio Records of Accents of English

About this book

Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This book is the first to bring together a team of globally recognised scholars to document and analyse these early recordings in a single volume. Looking at examples of regional varieties of English from England, Scotland, Ireland, the USA, Canada and other anglophone countries, the volume explores both standard and vernacular varieties, and demonstrates how accents of English have changed between the late nineteenth century and the present day. The socio-phonetic examinations of the recordings will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, the history of the English language, language variation and change, phonetics, and phonology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Maps
  9. List of Tables
  10. Notes on Contributors
  11. Preface
  12. 1 Analysing Early Audio Recordings
  13. 2 British Library Sound Recordings of Vernacular Speech: They Were Lost and Now They Are Found
  14. 3 Twentieth-Century Received Pronunciation: Prevocalic /r/
  15. 4 Twentieth-Century Received Pronunciation: Stop Articulation
  16. 5 London’s Cockney in the Twentieth Century: Stability or Cycles of Contact-Driven Change?
  17. 6 The Origins of Liverpool English
  18. 7 Tyneside English
  19. 8 Scotland: Glasgow and the Central Belt
  20. 9 Early Recordings of Irish English
  21. 10 Evidence of American Regional Dialects in Early Recordings
  22. 11 New England
  23. 12 Upper Midwestern English
  24. 13 Western United States
  25. 14 Analysis of the Ex-Slave Recordings
  26. 15 Archival Data on Earlier Canadian English
  27. 16 Canadian Raising in Newfoundland? Insights from Early Vernacular Recordings
  28. 17 The Caribbean: Trinidad and Jamaica
  29. 18 Early Recordings from Ghana: A Variationist Approach to the Phonological History of an Outer Circle Variety
  30. 19 Earlier South African English
  31. 20 Early Twentieth-Century Tristan da Cunha h’English
  32. 21 Open Vowels in Historical Australian English
  33. 22 Early New Zealand English: The Closing Diphthongs
  34. 23 The Development of Recording Technology
  35. Index