Publications

Publication details [#32162]

Blake, Renée and Meredith Josey. 2003. The /ay/ diphthong in a Martha's Vineyard community: What can we say 40 years after Labov? Language in Society 32 (4) : 451–485.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

sociolinguistics | speech community

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article revisits Labov's sociolinguistic work on Martha's Vineyard speech, providing a sociolinguistic analysis of the /ay/ diphthong from a new set of data collected in a Martha's Vineyard speech community.