Publications

Publication details [#52537]

Purnell, Thomas. 2009. Convergence and Contact in Milwaukee: Evidence From Select African American and White Vowel Space Features. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 28 (4) : 408–427.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | dialect1 | language change | language contact | vowel

Language as a subject

English, African American | English, American

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study reveals that both synchronically and diachronically Black speakers from southeastern Wisconsin linguistically accommodate (where vowel dynamics are concerned) toward White speakers.