LING 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: New York City English, Multivariate Analysis, African American Vernacular English
9 Mar 2016
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E. g. , i missed my bus", the mist makes it hard to see". Whether or not people pronounce a /h/ in certain words that have an h" in spelling(h)ouse, (h)appy, etc. hora (spanish), heure (french), etc. Type of variation: involves social and regional variation. This particular example involves a phonetic process (sociophonetic variation) Tube, student, new, university, pure, cute, beauty, etc. When the following word begins with a consonant, we do not always hear the /t/ sound. Not clear what level this change is operating at (partly phonological) Was/were (they were fighting vs. they was fighting) Type of variation: grammatical in the larger sense, syntactic to some extent, but mostly morphological variation. She a nice girl", he comin" tonight", etc. Type of variation: involves mostly syntactic difference and some phonological difference. In french, you can omit the first negative and the sentence still has the same meaning. Cottage (ontario english easterners) vs. cabin (bc english westerners)
