A collection of readings aimed at sociolinguists interested in analyzing language change (especially sound change) and language variation. By David Durian, Ph D
July 31, 2010 Leave a comment
There are some entries on Wikipedia that are so wonderfully done, they make your jaw drop. This is one of them (thanks to Daniel Ezra Johnson for first pointing me to it). This entry is worth reading if one wants to understand a good chunk of dialectology and sound change literature written shortly before Labov arrived on the scene in the early-to-mid 1960s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaphoneme
I am a sociolinguist with a Ph D in Linguistics from The Ohio State University and an MA in Rhetoric and Professional Writing from Northern Illinois University. Currently, I work as the Lecturer at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, where I teach undergraduate courses in sociolinguistics, general linguistics, and first-year composition.
I also work on research projects investigating variation and change in the vowel system of modern US English as it is spoken by Americans living in a variety of cities. At the moment, this includes Chicago, IL, Columbus, OH, and Eastern Pennsylvania.
