Browsing by Subject "Sociolinguistics"
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Emerging Hispanic English in the Southeast U.S.: Grammatical Variation in a Triethnic Community
(2013)AbstractThis study investigates variable past tense marking patterns in an emerging variety of N.C. Hispanic English (n=44) spoken by language learners at three Length of Residency (LOR) groups in three schools in Durham, ... -
Lucian and the Atticists: A Barbarian at the Gates
(2019)This dissertation investigates ancient language ideologies constructed by Greek and Latin writers of the second and third centuries CE, a loosely-connected movement now generally referred to the Second Sophistic. It focuses ... -
Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: an Examination through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project
(2009)Recordings of speech play a central role in the diverse subdisciplines of linguistics. The reliance on speech recordings is especially profound in sociolinguistics, where scholars have developed a range of techniques for ... -
The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti
(2015)In my dissertation, "The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti," I investigate the cultural history of West Central African slavery at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the ... -
Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South
(2009)Debate about the development of African American English (AAE) dominated sociolinguistic inquiry for the second half of the 20th century and continues to be a subject of investigation. All hypotheses about the development ...
