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Locating Style: Style-Shifting to Characterize Community at the Border of Washington, D.C. (2013)
Grieser, J. (2013). Locating style: style-shifting to characterize community at the border of Washington, D.C. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: 19(2), Article 10. https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol19/iss2/10 Grieser (2013) looks into topically marked instances of style shifting in two African American speakers from the Washington, D.C. area in order to determine how individual speakers use patterns […]
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“I ain’t Never Been Charged with Nothing!”: The Use of Falsetto Speech as a Linguistic Strategy of Indignation (2010)
Nielsen, R. (2010). “I ain’t never been charged with nothing!”: The use of falsetto speech as a linguistic strategy of indignation. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: 15(2), 111-121. https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol15/iss2/13 This study examined the speech of a fourteen-year-old DC native named Michael with regards to his use of falsetto during the sociolinguistic interview. Nielsen aimed […]
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Discourse on Southeast’s Bad Reputation: Positioning of African Americans in Washington, D.C.
Lee, S. (2018). Discourse on Southeast’s bad reputation: Positioning of African Americans in Washington, D.C. Discourse & Society, 29(4), 420–435. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926518778901 This study examines the interview discourse of five African American speakers in Washington, D.C., particularly paying attention to their discussions on issues surrounding a marginalized section of the city, namely, Southeast. The study provides […]
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The Stylistic Use of Prosodic Rhythm in African American English (2013)
Nielsen, R. 2013. The Stylistic Use of Prosodic Rhythm in African American English. RASK 37: 301-334. This article looks into prosodic variation in an individual speaker of African American English (AAE). Building off of prior studies that included the Pairwise Variability Index (PVI), which is a measure of whether a language variety is stress-timed or […]
