University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics Ethnicity and Sound Change: African American English in Charleston, Sc Ethnicity and Sound Change: African American English in Charleston, Sc Ethnicity and Sound Change: African American English in Charleston, Sc | Semantic Scholar
@inproceedings{BaranowskiUniversityOP,
title={University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics Ethnicity and Sound Change: African American English in Charleston, Sc Ethnicity and Sound Change: African American English in Charleston, Sc Ethnicity and Sound Change: African American English in Charleston, Sc},
author={Maciej Baranowski},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2034660}
}This study investigates the degree to which African Americans participate in the sound changes currently in progress in the dialect of Charleston, South Carolina. It is based on a sample of 60 African Americans native to the area, recorded during sociolinguistic interviews; spontaneous speech is supplemented with word list reading and minimal-pair tests. The speech of 20 of the informants has been analyzed acoustically. The paper focuses on two sets of sound changes found earlier in the white…