Publications

Publication details [#58717]

Becker, Kara. 2014. The social motivations of reversal: Raised bought in New York City English. Language in Society 43 (4) : 395–420.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | sociolinguistics | sociophonetics | standard1 vs. dialect2 | vowel

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper provides a variationist analysis of the raised bought vowel in New York City English (NYCE), which has reversed Labov (1966)'s change trajectory. The data indicate that bought's turnabout is prompted by its coeval social meanings