LING316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Speech Community, Prestige Group, Gymnastics At The 2011 Pan American Games
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R-fullness was typical of rural, older and uneducated speech, of those outside of the plantation system, while. R-lessness was associated with more dominant societal levels. Us was weak at best and increased with increased contact between seaports and. The northern prestige of r collided with the southern prestige of deletion in. Upper middle class speakers used one or the other. Correlations with age and style suggest r presence was winning the prestige battle. Variation was so great that it was described as being entirely unsystematic and lacking pattern. This is where labov steps in (he"s the guy interested in finding the pattern in variation and who really doesn"t believe in free variation was becoming the new prestige norm and set out to show this. Regarding style: in carefull pronunciation, sak"s and macy"s are almost the same, as such, it seems that it is the r-full (more in slides)