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Publication details [#64921]

Carmichael, Cathie and Kara Becker. 2018. The New York City–New Orleans connection: Evidence from constraint ranking comparison. Language Variation and Change 30 (3) : 287–314.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | historical explanation | language variation | linguistics | speaker

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

New York City English (NYCE) and New Orleans English (NOE) show noteworthy likeness for cities seated 1300 miles apart. This paper proposes linguistic proof from constraint ranking comparisons of variable nonrhoticity and bought-raising in comparable modern samples of NYCE and NOE speakers.