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The transgender community in New York City played a significant role in fighting for LGBT equality. [132] October 1975 New York Daily News front page on President Ford's refusal to help the city avert bankruptcy. In the 1970s, job losses due to industrial restructuring caused New York City to suffer from economic problems and rising crime rates ...
about the social stratification of New York City: “New York City is a speech community, united by a common evaluation of the same variables which serve to differentiate the speakers” (Labov ...
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- Preface to the first edition
- I am deeply indebted to Mobilization for Youth and the Columbia School of Social Work. I would like to acknowledge particularly the help of Lloyd
The Clearinghouse for Social Dialect Studies, a joint instrumentality of the Center for Applied Linguistics and the National Council of Teachers of English, collects and distributes social dialect research information. It operates under the guidance of an Advisory Committee whose members are, at the present writing: Harold B. Allen, University of M...
The work presented in the following pages is a linguistic analysis of one speech community. Like any linguistic analysis, it is concerned with a system of contrastive relations, the code by which speakers communicate with one another. In this particular community, New York City, the system of the individual speaker appears to be less coherent than ...
x Preface to the first edition Ohlin, Director of Research of the Columbia School of Social Work, and Wyatt Jones, Director of Research of Mobilization for Youth, who pro-vided material support and advice at many critical points. Many sugges-tions have been derived from discussions with members of the Mobilization for Youth sta ff; I am particularl...
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that the speech of this heavily populated and need of much careful study. It is not my intention to present still another speech of the city of New York, or of a part thereof. briefly four general items of information which those who desire to know more about this speech. I. The New York City speech area is a clearly.
Labov (1966, 1972b) described the variable production of coda /r/ in New York City English (NYCE) as a change in progress from above in the direction of rhoticity. Since then, scholars have commented on the slow rate of change toward rhoticity in NYCE and characterized (r) as a superposed feature restricted to formal speech (Fowler, 1987; Labov, 1994; Labov, Ash, & Boberg, 2006).
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A typical speech community can be a small town, but sociolinguists such as William Labov claim that a large metropolitan area, for example New York City, can also be considered one single speech community.
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Since the discovery of New York harbor by. Verrazano in 1524, New York City has been be-. sieged by many foreign language speaking. groups. Yet despite this influence, New York City English has retained conservative aspects. of English that are not found in its surrounding areas, causing New York City to be a dialect is- land in modern English.
