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up for Lab Times with Jamaican Creole Prosody
One part of this project focuses on elements of word prosody, measuring/quantifying the differences between the stressed and unstressed vowels and syllables in Jamaican Creole.
The other part of this
project focuses on annotating the intonation of utterances in
spontaneous speech. We work in an Autosegmental Metrical framework of intonational phonology.
Research Personnel:
Kate Leeds (Directed Research) - Linguistics major (past)
Jihyun Kim -Graduate student in Linguistics (past)
Fawn Draucker - Graduate student in Linguistics (past)
Erin Donnelly - (UPitt First Experiences in Research program) - Linguistics major
Joy Horner (UPitt First Experiences in Research program)- Linguistics Major
African American English
Prosody
Data for this project are from the Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project and were collected by Trista Pennington, as part of an NSF funded project to Barbara Johnstone.
This project focuses on a
description of some of the prosodic features of Pittsburgh AAE (PAAE),
focusing on whether intonational patterns attributed to African
Americans (cf. Jun and Foreman, 1996 and Cole,
Thomas, Britt & Cogshall 2005) and are reflected in the speech of
women in Pittsburgh. As should be clear, the project at this time is
restricted to the speech of African
American Women.
Stephen Deno (Directed Research) - Linguistics major
Laura Herrmann (Research Volunteer) - Linguistics major
Jacqueline Schaffer(UPitt First Experiences in Research program) - Linguistics/English major
Zoe (Luk Pei Sui) - Graduate student in Linguistics
