Class Meetings:

Tue/Thurs 11:00am-12:15pm, 200-013

Co-Instructor:Annette D'Onofrio
Email:annetted at stanford
Office hours:Thurs 2:00-3:00; 460-030D
Co-Instructor:Janneke Van Hofwegen
Email:jmvanhof at stanford
Office hours:Fri 1:00-2:00; 460-030E

Course email: linguist159-aut1415-staff@lists.stanford.edu

Week Topic Readings Assignments
1 Sept 23
  1. Course Overview & Introductions
  2. Voices of NC
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  1. Slang Dictionary [due Sept 30]
Sept 25
  1. Dialects & Standards
  1. Wolfram & Schilling Chapter 1, p. 1-46
2 Sept 30
  1. Levels of Dialect
  2. (Sept 30, Oct 2)
  1. Wolfram & Schilling Chapter 3, p. 114-164
  1. Slang Dictionary collected
  2. Dialect Research Assignment [due Oct 14]
Oct 2
  1. Rickford, John (1985) Ethnicity as a Sociolinguistic Boundary. American Speech 60(2): 99-125.
  2. Zimmer, Benjamin, Jane Solomon & Charles E. Carson (2014) Among the New Words. American Speech 89(2): 190-207.
3 Oct 7
  1. Sociohistorical Context & Dialect Diffusion
  2. (Oct 7, Oct 9)
  1. Josef Fruehwald on Slate: 'What's wrong with "America's ugliest accent"'
  2. Wolfram & Schilling Chapter 4, p. 167-200
Oct 9
  1. Johnstone, Barbara (2013) The history of Yinz and the outlook for Pittsburghese, from Speaking Pittsburghese: The story of a dialect (Chapter 9).
  2. Van Herk, Gerard (2008) Fear of black phonology: The Northern Cities Shift as linguistic White flight. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 14(2):157-160.
4 Oct 14
  1. U.S. Regional Dialects
  2. (Oct 14, Oct 16)
  1. Wolfram & Schilling Chapter 5, through section 5.3 only, p. 203-220
  1. Dialect Research collected
  2. Map Task [Part 1 due Oct 21; Part 2 due Oct 24]
Oct 16
  1. Reading sign-up list here.
  2. Inland North: Eckert, Penelope. 1989. The whole woman: Sex and gender differences in variation. Language Variation and Change 1: 245-267.
  3. Midlands: Thomas, Erik. 1989. Vowel changes in Columbus, Ohio. Journal of English Linguistics 22: 205-212.
  4. Bigham, Douglas S. 2010. Correlation of the low-back vowel merger and TRAP-retraction. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 15(2): 21-31.
  5. Southeast: Dodsworth, Robin & Mary Kohn. 2012. Urban rejection of the vernacular: The SVS undone. Language Variation and Change 24: 221-245.
  6. Northeast: Ash, Sharon. 2002. The distribution of a phonemic split in the Mid-Atlantic region: Yet more on short a. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 8(3): 1-15.
  7. Becker, Kara & Amy Wing-mei Wong. 2010. The short-a system of New York City English: An update. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 15(2): 11-20.
  8. West: Podesva, Robert J., Annette D'Onofrio, Janneke Van Hofwegen & Seung Kyung Kim. Submitted. The California Vowel Shift and fractal recursivity in an inland, non-urban community. Language Variation and Change.
5 Oct 21
  1. Perceptual dialectology
  2. Guest lecture from Thor Sawin (Oct 21)
  3. (Oct 21, Oct 23)
  1. Map Task Part 1 collected Tues, Oct 21, in class
  2. Map Task Part 2 collected Fri, Oct 24, 5:00 PM
  3. Japanese-American Interview Assignment [Observations due Oct 28; Write-Up due Nov 4.]
Oct 23
  1. Preston, Dennis (1998). "They speak really bad English down South and in New York City." L. Bauer, P. Trudgill (Eds.), Language myths, London: Penguin. pp. 139-149
  2. Bucholtz, Mary, Nancy Bermudez, Victor Fung, Lisa Edwards and Rosalva Vargas (2007) Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California. Journal of English Linguistics 35(4):325-352.
6 Oct 28
  1. Ethnicity: What is an ethnic dialect?
  2. Chicano/Latino English
  1. Becker, Kara. (unpublished ms.) Ethnolect, dialect, and linguistic repertoire in New York City.
  1. Japanese American Observations collected
Oct 30
  1. Thomas, Erik R. & Janneke Van Hofwegen (under contract). Consonantal Variables Correlated with Ethnicity. In Mexican American English: Substrate influence and the birth of an ethnolect. Edited by Erik R. Thomas. Cambridge University Press.
  2. Eckert (2008) Where do ethnolects stop?International Journal of Bilingualism 12(1&2):25-42.
  3. (Skim) Thomas, Erik R. (2014). Language contact and the birth of an ethnolect. Colloquium presented at Memorial University of Newfoundland. February.
7 Nov 4
  1. Asian-American English
  2. Ethnicity: What is an ethnic dialect? (continued)
  1. Lo, Adrienne & Angela Reyes. Language, identity and relationality in Asian Pacific America: An introduction. Pragmatics 14(2/3):115-125.
  1. Japanese American Write-ups collected
  2. Attention paid to speech assignment [Recordings due Nov 11; Write-up due Nov 18.]
Nov 6
  1. Chun, Elaine. 2001. The constructions of White, Black and Korean American identities through African American Vernacular English. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11(1):52-64.
8 Nov 11
  1. Style and Intra-speaker Variation
  2. Nov 11, Nov 13
  1. Wolfram & Schilling Chapter 10
  1. Attention paid to speech recordings collected in class Nov 11
Nov 13
  1. Schilling-Estes, Natalie (1998) 'Self-consious' speech: The performance register in Ocracoke English. Language in Society 27(1):53-85.
  2. Podesva, Robert J. (2007) Three sources of stylistic meaning. Texas Linguistics Form (Proceedings of the Symposium About Language and Society) 51:134-143.
9 Nov 18
  1. Social Class
  2. Nov 18, Nov 20
  1. Labov, William (1972) The social stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores, from Sociolinguistic Patterns (Chapter 2).
  1. Attention paid to speech write-ups due by beginning of class Nov 18
  2. Final Paper Requirements [due Dec 10, by 10pm]
  3. Web Perception Experiment [due Dec 4]
Nov 20
  1. Mallinson, Christine and Becky Childs (2007) Communities of practice in sociolinguistic description: Analyzing language and identity practices among Black women in Appalachia. Gender and Language 1: 173-206.
Thanksgiving Nov 25 & Nov 27
  1. No Class - Thanksgiving Break
10 Dec 2
  1. Applications of Dialect Research
  2. Guest lecture from Mike Metz
  1. Paris, Django (2012) Culturally sustaining pedagogy: A needed change in stance, terminology, and practice. Educational Researcher 41: 93-97.
  2. Young, Vershawn Ashanti, Rusty Barrett, Y'Shanda Young-Rivera & Kim Brian Lovejoy (2014) Chapter 3: Be Yourself Somewhere Else. Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code Switching and African American Literacy 33-51.
  1. Web Perception Experiment due by beginning of class, Dec 4
Dec 4
  1. Sociolinguistic Perception
  1. Niedzielski, Nancy (1999) The effect of social information on the perception of sociolinguistic variables. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 18(1): 62-85.