Contextualizing /s/ retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington D.C. African American Language. Gunter, K., Vaughn, C., & Kendall, T. Language Variation and Change, 33(3):331–357, October, 2021. ![Contextualizing /s/ retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington D.C. African American Language [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex 1 download Abstract Recent work has demonstrated an ongoing change across varieties of English in which /s/ retracts before consonants, particularly before /tɹ/ clusters (e.g., Lawrence, 2000; Shapiro, 1995; Stuart-Smith et al., 2019). Much of this work has focused on the social and linguistic distributions of /stɹ/ within single communities, without an examination of the broader sibilant space (e.g., /s/ and /ʃ/). Meanwhile, analyses across multiple corpora have shown that /s/ and /ʃ/ also show within-community variability, beyond /stɹ/ contexts (Stuart-Smith et al., 2019, 2020). Intersecting these approaches, this paper explores sibilant variation and change across /stɹ/, /s/, and /ʃ/ using a corpus of Washington D.C. African American Language (AAL). Results indicate that /stɹ/-retraction is a stable variant in this variety of AAL and /s/ and /ʃ/ show evidence of socially stratified variation and change. Overall, this paper demonstrates the need to examine the sibilant space more holistically when examining changes in /stɹ/.
@article{gunter_contextualizing_2021,
title = {Contextualizing /s/ retraction: {Sibilant} variation and change in {Washington} {D}.{C}. {African} {American} {Language}},
volume = {33},
issn = {0954-3945, 1469-8021},
shorttitle = {Contextualizing /s/ retraction},
url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S095439452100020X/type/journal_article},
doi = {10.1017/S095439452100020X},
abstract = {Abstract
Recent work has demonstrated an ongoing change across varieties of English in which /s/ retracts before consonants, particularly before /tɹ/ clusters (e.g., Lawrence, 2000; Shapiro, 1995; Stuart-Smith et al., 2019). Much of this work has focused on the social and linguistic distributions of /stɹ/ within single communities, without an examination of the broader sibilant space (e.g., /s/ and /ʃ/). Meanwhile, analyses across multiple corpora have shown that /s/ and /ʃ/ also show within-community variability, beyond /stɹ/ contexts (Stuart-Smith et al., 2019, 2020). Intersecting these approaches, this paper explores sibilant variation and change across /stɹ/, /s/, and /ʃ/ using a corpus of Washington D.C. African American Language (AAL). Results indicate that /stɹ/-retraction is a stable variant in this variety of AAL and /s/ and /ʃ/ show evidence of socially stratified variation and change. Overall, this paper demonstrates the need to examine the sibilant space more holistically when examining changes in /stɹ/.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2022-05-20},
journal = {Language Variation and Change},
author = {Gunter, Kaylynn and Vaughn, Charlotte and Kendall, Tyler},
month = oct,
year = {2021},
keywords = {CORAAL, Consonants, Washington DC},
pages = {331--357},
}
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