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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.
Some studies are based on impressions of early twentieth- century New York speech and, as such, are somewhat out of date now. Some, though based on a narrow sampling of this highly complicated speech area, have contributed to a clearer picture of the speech of the city of New York.
- Introductory note to the first edition
- 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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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...
New York City English, or Metropolitan New York English, [1] is a regional dialect of American English spoken primarily in New York City and some of its surrounding metropolitan area. It is described by sociolinguist William Labov as the most recognizable regional dialect in the United States. [2] Its pronunciation system—the New York accent ...
many people who commute to New York City give one of the reasons for living in the suburbs as not wanting their children to grow up speak-ing like a New Yorker. Indeed, it is the inhabi-tants of New York City who dislike their own speech even more than those living in other parts of the nation dislike New York City speech.
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This study's ethnically diverse sample of speakers from the Lower East Side of Manhattan (n = 65) shows a mean rate of /r/ production of 68%, with young people, women, and middle-class speakers leading in the production of /r/ in apparent time.
