The intention of this assignment was to analyze the raising of the /ae/ or /I/ before the ‘ing’ sound in a word. For example, ring turns into rang or think into thank. In this experiment two subjects were recorded in an interview and their speech was analyzed. The two subjects are approximately 40 years apart.
Subject one is Cody Hall, my boyfriend, Cody was born in Fresno, California and spent his early childhood in Alaska. At the age of 8 years Cody moved to Mariposa, California and graduated from Mariposa County High School. He is now attending California State University, Chico studying Applied Computer Graphics. Both his parents grew up in the East Coast. His mother is from Connecticut and his Father is from New Hampshire.
Subject two is Marina Fisher, my mother, Marina was born in Bakersfield, California in 1953 and spent a majority of her early childhood their. Later, after her father caught Valley Fever, they moved to Concord, California where she graduated high school. Marina now resides in Mariposa California and tends to her father who has alzheimer's. Marina’s parents are both from Oklahoma. Both individuals were interviewed blindly and had no ideas about why they were being interviewed. They were also unaware that the other was interviewed.
I hypothesize that Subject one, Cody Hall, will not reflect any signs of the raising of either /ae/ or /I/ before ‘ing’ and that Subject two, Marina Fisher will. Marina has grown up with individuals who do reflect the these pronunciations, as they tend to characteristically pronounce vowels as if they were from the South. Also, I predict that Cody will reflect traits of the Northern cities shift.
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What was most interesting to me was that neither subject seemed to really pronounced either word the way I had originally assumed they would. Instead, I was the one pronouncing the raised vowels.
During the course of this assignment, I interviewed my mother twice. The first time I interviewed her I asked her if she could “thank of anythang, like drama involving a ring”. She actually stopped mid interview and corrected my speech. Unfortunately, the audio file for the first interview was some how corrupt and will not play. She proceeded to to tell me I talk like my Dad. My father spent a majority of his childhood in Jackson, Wyoming and moved to Concord, California in his late teens. It’s kind of comical because I chose not to interview my father for this assignment because he spent his childhood in Wyoming.
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http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/vowels.html
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Pardo, J. S., Gibbons, R., Suppes, A., & Krauss, R. M. (2011). Phonetic convergence in college roommates. Journal of Phonetics, 40(1),190-197. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2011.10.001
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